La Biblioteca

The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape: An Introduction


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The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) is one of the Library of Congress most unique literary collections. Founded in 1943, this audio archive has captured the voices of more than 750 poets and prose writers from the Luso-Hispanic world, including prominent figures like Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), Pablo Neruda (Chile), and Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina). For the past seven decades, curators of this archive have recorded, here in the Library of Congress’ Recording Laboratory and abroad, writers from thirty-two countries reading in more than ten languages (including indigenous languages), and they continue to do so up to this day. In 2015, part of the collection became available for online streaming, and every year new content from the archive is added to the site.

The entire list of authors recorded for the AHLOT can be consulted here.

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