Martin Caparr s is one of Latin America's most lauded journalists. He teaches journalism at Cornell and maintains a column for the Spanish edition of the New York Times.
A work of great significance that was the result of a multi-year odyssey among the richest and best-fed peoples on Earth, and among its poorest and hungriest, in an effort to understand how and why hunger persists in today's world. --The Columbia School of Journalism's Maria Moors Cabot Prize Citation Mart n Caparr s Hunger is more than wise . . . His writing brings us into an inferno of reality that most of us give only, at best, our distracted attention. --Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah The most important writer of narrative journalism: our Capote, our Kapuscinski. --La Nac on An impressive testimony, and an indictment. --La Temps Important reading, because it gives the stricken a voice, and reveals a horrible global 'normal' as a scandal. --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Strange, singular, violent, necessary. --El Mundo