Chicago's wide world of international literature

Chicago has long been a destination for immigrants from across the globe, especially those from Europe, Mexico, and Central America. This made the city a melting pot of cultures, which bled into Chicago's literature scene. The city is home to a breadth of businesses focused on international works, from a shop that sells Franco-Belgian comic books to a publisher producing translated works from Spain and across Latin America.

"Chicago is a very international city, with communities from all over the world and major universities that support the languages and literatures of many countries and regions," Jason Grunebaum, a co-director of a University of Chicago project to help produce translated South Asian literature, told ChicagoGlobal. "The community dedicated to bringing voices from other languages into English and to Chicago reflects this diversity."