In Sevilla, Spain, the General Archive of the Indies has, for 240 years, been a repository for centuries of materials and documents gathering a record of the daily life of empire. Now ten writers from Spain and Latin America have a chance to respond to this 80-million-page trove.

With contributions from:

• Carlos Fonseca (Costa Rica)

• Carlos Granés (Colombia)

• Cristina Bendek (Colombia)

• Juan Bonilla (Spain)

• Karina Pacheco (Peru)

• Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia)

• Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia)

• Martín Caparrós (Argentina)

• Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico)

• Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (Mexico)