About thirty different magazines were published in Sweden by the Latin-American exiles, among them seven literary magazines. In this article I will present the first issue of the first published literary magazine, Hoy y aquí, appeared in May 1980. The analysis focuses in the matter of exile. I come to the conclusion that exile is represented as an oscillation between two poles, a pole of nostalgia and a pole of curiosity in the new. A fundamental function of this first issue is to encourage the readers to use language as a tool in the situation of exile, something about what Hoy y aquí becomes an example of.