Alejandra Pizarnik
Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-administered overdose of barbiturates on 25 September 1972. A few words scribbled on a slate that same month, reiterating her desire to go nowhere "but to the bottom," sum up her lifelong aspiration as a human being and as a writer. The compulsion to head for the "bottom" or "abyss" points to her desire to surrender to nothingness in an ultimate experience of ecstasy and poetic fulfillment in which life and art would be fused, albeit at her own risk. "Ojalá pudiera vivir solamente en éxtasis, haciendo el cuerpo del poema con mi cuerpo" (If I cou
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Julio Ramón Ribeyro Zúñiga was a Peruvian writer best known for his short stories. He was also successful in other genres: novel, essay, theater, diary and aphorism. In the year of his death, he was awarded the Premio Juan Rulfo de literatura latinoamericana y del Caribe. His work has been translated into numerous languages, including English.
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The characters in his stories, often autobiographical and usually written in simple but ironic language, tend to end up with their hopes cruelly dashed. But despite its apparent pessimism, Ribeyro's work is often comic, its humor springing from both the author's sense of irony and the accidents that befall his protagonists. The collective work of his short stories is published under the title La palabr -
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José María Arguedas Altamirano fue un escritor, poeta, traductor, profesor, antropólogo y etnólogo peruano. Fue autor de novelas y cuentos que lo han llevado a ser considerado como uno de los grandes representantes de la literatura en el Perú.
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Voltaire
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In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. Jesuit-educated, he began writing clever verses by the age of 12. He launched a lifelong, successful playwriting career in 1718, interrupted by imprisonment in the Bastille. Upon a second imprisonment, in which Francois adopted the pen name Voltaire, he was released after agreeing to move to London. There he wrote Lettres philosophiques (1733), which galvanized French reform. The book also satirized the religious teachings of Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal, including Pascal's famed "wager" on God. Voltaire wrote: "The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof of the exi -
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Santiago Ramón y Cajal ForMemRS (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 18 October 1934) was a Spanish pathologist, histologist, neuroscientist and Nobel laureate. His original pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain have led him to be designated by many as the father of modern neuroscience. His medical artistry was legendary, and hundreds of his drawings illustrating the delicate arborizations of brain cells are still in use for educational and training purposes.
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Ramón y Cajal's early work was accomplished at the Universities of Zaragoza and Valencia, where he focused on the pathology of inflammation, the microbiology of cholera, and the structure of Epithelial cells and tissues. It was not until he m -
Rosalía de Castro
María Rosalía Rita de Castro, better known as Rosalía de Castro (Santiago de Compostela, 24 February 1837 – Padrón, 15 July 1885), was a poet, novelist and Galician nationalist ("Probe Galicia, non debes / chamarte nunca española" ["Poor Galicia, you should never / called yourself Spanish"]).
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Contemporary feminism has trumped her as a pioneer.
For her novel "Daugher of the Sea" (1859), she wrote in the prologue, "Because it is not yet allowed for women to write about what they feel and what they know".
A native of Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia nation or "historic nationality" of northwest Spain, she wrote in both Galician and Castilian.
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Alice Notley
Alice Notley was an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she always denied being involved with the New York School or any specific movement in general. Notley's early work laid both formal and theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she was considered a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic life.
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Notley's experimentation with poetic form, seen in her books 165 Meeting House Lane, When I Was Alive, The Descent of Alette, and Culture of One, ranges from a blurred line between genres, to a quotation-mark-driven interpretation of the variable foot, to a full reinvention of the purpose and potential of strict rhythm and meter. She -
Nuria Varela
Nuria Varela Menéndez es una escritora y periodista. Licenciada en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, con un máster en Estudios Interdisciplinares de Género y máster en Género y Políticas de Igualdad entre Mujeres y Hombres, ambos por la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Ha trabajado en la agencia de noticias OTR, los semanarios Panorama, Interviú. Ha colaborado en publicaciones como Meridiam, Números Rojos, Revista Europea de Derechos Fundamentales, Revista 21 y Contrapunto de América Latina, así como con la Cadena Ser.
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Fue Directora del Gabinete de la ministra, Bibiana Aído, participando en la puesta en marcha para la IX Legislatura del primer Ministerio de Igualdad creado en España y nombrada Directora Gener -
Elvira Sastre
Elvira Sastre nace en Segovia el verano de 1992 y ya desde muy pequeña, gracias a la influencia de su padre, muestra su amor por la lectura. A los doce años escribe su primer poema y tres años más tarde abre un blog, "Relocos y Recuerdos", que a día de hoy mantiene activo. Poco tiempo después, gana el premio de poesía "Emiliano Barral" con el relato corto Saudade.
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Unos años más tarde, se instala en Madrid para cursar el grado universitario de Estudios Ingleses, sin saber que ese cambio lanzaría su carrera poética al cielo de la capital. En Madrid, Elvira continúa escribiendo y comienza a participar en eventos poéticos acompañada de cantautores consagrados como Adriana Moragues, Diego Ojeda y Dani Hare e importantes poetas como Carlos Salem -
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Silvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo Aguirre was a poet and short-fiction writer.
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Ocampo was the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo, the publisher of the literarily important Argentine magazine Sur.
Silvina was educated at home by tutors, and later studied drawing in Paris under Giorgio de Chirico. She was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares, whose lover she became (1933) when Bioy was 19. They were married in 1940. In 1954 she adopted Bioy’s daughter with another woman, Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954-94) who was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo’s death. -
Janet Frame
The fate befalling the young woman who wanted "to be a poet" has been well documented. Desperately unhappy because of family tragedies and finding herself trapped in the wrong vocation (as a schoolteacher) her only escape appeared to be in submission to society's judgement of her as abnormal. She spent four and a half years out of eight years, incarcerated in mental hospitals. The story of her almost miraculous survival of the horrors and brutalising treatment in unenlightened institutions has become well known. She continued to write throughout her troubled years, and her first book (The Lagoon and Other Stories) won a prestigious literary prize, thus convincing her doctors not to carry out a planned lobotomy.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and emotionally powerful authors of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she demonstrated literary talent from an early age, publishing her first poem at the age of eight. Her early life was shaped by the death of her father, Otto Plath, when she was eight years old, a trauma that would profoundly influence her later work.
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Plath attended Smith College, where she excelled academically but also struggled privately with depression. In 1953, she survived a suicide attempt, an experience she later fictionalized in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. After recovering, she earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study -
Julio Cortázar
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Mario Benedetti
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Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy. -
Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni was one of the most important Latin-American poets of the postmodernism movement.
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“Nací al lado de la piedra junto a la montaña, en una madrugada de primavera, cuando la tierra, después de su largo sueño, se corona nuevamente de flores. Las primeras prendas que al nacer me pusieron las hizo mi madre cantando baladas antiguas, mientras el pan casero expandía en la antigua casa su familiar perfume y mis hermanos jugaban alegremente. Me llamaron Alfonsina, nombre árabe que quiere decir dispuesta a todo”.
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Valentine Penrose
Valentine Penrose (née Boué; 1 January 1898 – 7 August 1978), was a French surrealist poet, author and collagist.
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Valentine Penrose wrote surrealist poetry, although she is perhaps best known for her biography of the serial killer Elizabeth Báthory (1560-1614). Her poetry reflects her experience of automatic writing, collage and painting techniques such as Max Ernst’s frottage and Wolfgang Paalen’s fumage.
Penrose was interested in female mysticism, alchemy and the occult. She met Count Galarza Santa Clara in Egypt, a master of the esoteric, and made several visits to his ashram in India. In 1936 she made an extended visit to India with the poet and painter Alice Paalen (later Alice Rahon). They become very close and their relationship is sho -
Idea Vilariño
Idea Vilariño (Montevideo, 1920-2009) fue una poeta, ensayista y crítica literaria uruguaya perteneciente al grupo de escritores denominado Generación del 45. Dentro de sus facetas menos conocidas se encuentran la de traductora, compositora y docente.
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Vilariño was one of the outstanding figures of Uruguayan poetry, with her lyric creations collected in works such as “La Suplicante” (The Supplicant), “Poemas de Amor” (Love Poems) and “Nocturnos” (Nocturnes).
Also known as an essayist and literary critic, she was a member of the writers’ group called the Generation of 45, to which Mario Benedetti, 88, also belonged and who is currently in a Montevideo hospital in critical condition.
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María Elena Walsh
Fue una poetisa, escritora, música, cantautora, dramaturga y compositora argentina, que ha sido considerada como "mito viviente, prócer cultural (y) blasón de casi todas las infancias". Por su parte, el escritor Leopoldo Brizuela ha puesto de relieve el valor de su creación diciendo que "lo escrito por María Elena configura la obra más importante de todos los tiempos en su género, comparable a la Alicia de Lewis Carroll o a Pinocchio; una obra que revolucionó la manera en que se entendía la relación entre poesía e infancia.".
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Especialmente famosa por sus obras infantiles, entre las que se destacan el personaje/canción "Manuelita, la tortuga" y los libros "Tutú Marambá", "El reino del revés" y "Dailan Kifki", es también autora de difundidas c -
Han Kang
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
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Gabrielle Wittkop
Gabrielle Wittkop (née Menardeau) (1920-2002) was a French writer. She was born in Nantes. She married Justus Wittkop, a Nazi deserter, in Paris and moved with him to Germany in 1946 after the end of the Second World War.
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Her first book, on the German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann was published in German in 1966. Her first novel Le Necrophile (The Necrophiliac, 1972) was published in 1972 by Régine Desforges. She wrote several highly regarded novels and travelogues. She also contributed to the art pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
After her partner committed suicide, she wrote an account of it in Hemlock (1988). She herself committed suicide in 2002, after she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Although popular in France and Germany, Wittkop -
Billy Collins
William James Collins is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As of 2020, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
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Lucie Brock-Broido
Lucie Brock-Broido was the author of four collections of poetry. She has received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She was described as an Elliptical Poet by critic Stephen Burt.
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Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Colette, Édith Piaf, whom he cast in one of his one act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940, and Raymond Radiguet.
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His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both l -
Georges Politzer
French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" (philosophe roux).
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Politzer was already a militant by the time of his involvement in the Hungarian insurrection of 1919. He went into exile at age seventeen following the failure of the Hungarian Soviet Republic led by Béla Kun when the country fell under the rule of the repressive government of Austro-Hungarian Admiral Miklós Horthy.
He settled in Paris in 1921 after meeting Freud and Sándor Ferenczi in Vienna. He joined the French Communist Party sometime between 1929 and 1931.
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Barbara Black Koltuv
Barbara Black Koltuv received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University in 1962. She had a Post Doctoral Fellowship in 1963, and was licensed by New York State as a Psychologist. She began to study at the New York University Post Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her primary supervisor was Erich Fromm, with whom she studied the language of dreams, and learned to work with patients from a deeply spiritual psychological perspective. In 1969 she was awarded a Diploma in Psychoanalysis from the New York University Post-Doctoral Program.
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Barbara Black Koltuv began her psychoanalytic practice in New York in 1963. She was known to be "a talented psychoanalyst" who, because she had no particular theoretical prefer -
Norah Lange
Norah Lange fue una narradora y poetisa argentina de vanguardia, vinculada primero al Grupo Martín Fierro, especialmente con Jorge Luis Borges y luego al Grupo Proa de Leopoldo Marechal. Destacada por haber roto en Argentina el canon de que las mujeres no debían escribir prosa.
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Hija del noruego Gunnar Lange y la irlandesa Berta Erfjord fue la cuarta de seis hijos. Llamativa por su condición de pelirroja, se destacaba por su audacia para irrumpir en ámbitos hasta entonces reservados a los varones.
Se le supone un amor juvenil con Jorge Luis Borges, quien prologó su primer libro La calle de la tarde (1925) y de Leopoldo Marechal que la inmortalizó en Adán Buenosayres como Solveig Amundsen.
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Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.
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Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently: Place (2012), Sea Change (2008), Overlord (2005), Never (2002), Swarm (2001), The Errancy (1997), and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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Quino
QUINO, Joaquín Salvador Lavado, nace, hijo de inmigrantes españoles, andaluces, en la ciudad de Mendoza (Argentina) el 17 de julio aunque en los registros oficiales conste nacido el 17 de agosto. Desde que nació se lo llamó Quino para distinguirlo de su tío Joaquín Tejón, pintor y dibujante publicitario con quien a los 3 años descubre su vocación.
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Comienza la escuela primaria donde descubre que su verdadero nombre es Joaquín y vive las dificultades de su personaje Felipe: «Me angustiaba tanto que en los primeros tres meses tenía malas notas, pero después terminaba el año con notas altas, aunque nunca era el primer alumno y eso me daba bronca». -
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. Among the general public and specifically among feminists, Wollstonecraft's life has received much more attention than her writing because of her unconventional, and often tumultuous, personal relationships. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay, Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement; they had one daughter, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty-eight due to complications from childbirth, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.
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José Gorostiza
Publicó únicamente cuatro libros: el primero, Canciones para cantar en las barcas (1925), se caracteriza por la pureza de su línea y delicadeza de su lirismo. La interrelación de estos elementos le permitió escribir poemas aparentemente simples, pero sumamente complejos en su significación y lirismo.
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Después de catorce años, durante los cuales sus poemas permanecieron inéditos o dispersos en revistas y antologías, apareció Muerte sin fin (1939), uno de los más importantes poemas largos escritos en español; en éste, los versos dejan la simplicidad y, sin abandonar el diálogo entre vida común y expresión exacta, se sumergen en una búsqueda poética exhaustiva del ser, en el mundo y en la muerte.
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Alejandro Dolina
Alejandro Ricardo Dolina (born May 20, 1945) is an Argentine broadcaster, who also achieved renown as a musician and a writer.
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Dolina was born in Baigorrita, Buenos Aires Province, and spent his childhood years in Caseros, a middle-class suburb of Buenos Aires city, with Yugoslav (in his own words -he never referred to a particular ethnic group in the defunct country) and Italian ancestry (he has also reminded his audiences that Dolina is a word preserved in many Slavic languages, meaning valley). He pursued music and writing since childhood. Although he steadfastly refuses to discuss his private life, he often recalls anecdotes about time spent in his youth in the company of musicians and professional gamblers (he confesses of having worked -
Anna Akhmatova
also known as: Анна Ахматова
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Personal themes characterize lyrical beauty of noted work of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko; the Soviet government banned her books between 1946 and 1958.
People credit this modernist of the most acclaimed writers in the canon.
Her writing ranges from short lyrics to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism. She has been widely translated into many languages, and is one of the best-known Russian poets of 20th century.
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César Vallejo
César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century. Always a step ahead of the literary currents, each of his books was distinct from the others and, in it's own sense, revolutionary. Clayton Eshleman and José Rubia Barcia's translation of "The Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo" won the National Book Award for translation in 1979.
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José Daniel Espejo
José Daniel Espejo, escritor, activista, cuidador y librero, es autor de los poemarios Los placeres de la meteorología (Nausícäa, 2000), Quemando a los idiotas en las plazas (Editum, 2001), Música para ascensores (Tres Fronteras, 2007), Mal (Balduque, 2014) e id (Ediciones del 4 de Agosto, 2016), así como de las plaquettes El tiempo hace fú (Colectivo Iletrados, 2011) y Psycho Killer Qu´est Que C´est (ad minimum, 2014), y del volumen misceláneo habla con medusas (La Galla Ciencia, 2015). Es uno de los poetas seleccionados por Martín Rodríguez Gaona en su estudio Mejorando lo presente. Poesía española última. Posmodernidad, humanismo y redes (Caballo de Troya, 2010). También ha aparecido en las antologías poéticas Resaca / Hank Over (Caballo
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Rosario Castellanos
Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 (the poets who wrote following the Second World War, influenced by César Vallejo and others), she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression, and her work has influenced feminist theory and cultural studies. Though she died young, she opened the door of Mexican literature to women, and left a legacy that still resonates today.
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Throughout her career, Castellanos wrote poetry, essays, one major play, and three novels: the semi-autobiographical Balún Canán and Oficio de tinieblas (trans -
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century.
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Dickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore -
Philipp Mainländer
Philipp Mainländer (October 5, 1841 – April 1, 1876) was a German philosopher and poet. Born Philipp Batz, he later changed his name to "Mainländer" in homage to his hometown, Offenbach am Main.
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In his central work Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption or The Philosophy of Salvation) — according to Theodor Lessing, "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" — Mainländer proclaims that life is absolutely worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality."
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Toriyama Sekien
Japanese painter whose real name was Toyofusa Sano. It is one of the precursors of ukiyo-e, a genre of engravings made by woodcut. Sekien's artistic work was based almost exclusively on the representation of monsters and ghosts. his yokai are based on traditional texts and some previous paintings and prints. Sekien's compilation is made up of four books: The Night Parade of the One Hundred Demon Illustrated (1776), One Hundred Illustrated Demons of the Present and the Past (1779), Supplement of the One Hundred Demons of the Present and the Past (1780) and The Bag of the hundred utensils appeared at random (1784).
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Amparo Dávila
Amparo Dávila born 1928 in Zacatecas, Mexico is a Mexican author. Dávila was the sole surviving child of her parents. The oldest son died at childbirth. The next son died as a result of meningitis, and the last son died during his infancy. She learned to love reading at an early age from spending time in her father's library. Her childhood was marked by fear, a theme that appeared in a number of her future works as an author. Her first published work was Salmos bajo la luna in 1950. This was followed by Meditaciones a la orilla del sueno and Perfil de soledades. She then moved to Mexico City where she worked as Alfonso Reyes's Secretary. In 1966 she was a part of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores (Mexican Writer's Center) where she received
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Raúl Zurita
Raúl Zurita was born in Santiago de Chile. In 1973 he was arrested by the Pinochet regime and imprisoned in the hold of a ship. He was a founder of the group Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), which undertook extremely risky public-art actions against the regime. In 1982 five airplanes wrote his poem “La Vida Nueva” in the sky above New York City, and in 1993 he had the phrase “NEITHER PAIN NOR FEAR” bulldozed into the Atacama Desert in a permanent, two-mile-long installation, visible only from above. Zurita received the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000 and the Asan Memorial World Poetry Prize in 2018.
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Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni was one of the most important Latin-American poets of the postmodernism movement.
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“Nací al lado de la piedra junto a la montaña, en una madrugada de primavera, cuando la tierra, después de su largo sueño, se corona nuevamente de flores. Las primeras prendas que al nacer me pusieron las hizo mi madre cantando baladas antiguas, mientras el pan casero expandía en la antigua casa su familiar perfume y mis hermanos jugaban alegremente. Me llamaron Alfonsina, nombre árabe que quiere decir dispuesta a todo”.
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Diego Zúñiga
Diego Zúñiga (Iquique, 1987) is a Chilean journalist. He is the author of two novels and the recipient of the Juegos Literarios Gabriela Mistral and the Chilean National Book and Reading Council Award. He lives in Santiago de Chile. In May 2017 he was included in the Bogota 39 list of the best 39 Latin American writers under 40 organized by the Hay Festival every 10 years,
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Mariko Koike
小池真理子 Mariko Koike is a popular detective and horror novelist. Koike was born in Tokyo and graduated from Seikei University. Her first collection of essays was Recommendations to Women of the World and it became a bestseller. She has been a novelist since her novel came out in 1986. Several of her novels have been translated in to English by Deborah Boliver Boehm.
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Gabriela Mistral
Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (pseudonym: Gabriela Mistral), a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945 "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world." Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Indian and European influences.
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Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. He is considered one of Latin America's most important 20th-century writers.
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Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy. -
Rodolfo Walsh
Rodolfo Jorge Walsh was an Argentine writer, considered the founder of investigative journalism in Argentina. He remains disappeared since March 25, 1977.
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After finishing the primary education in his small town in Río Negro Province, Walsh moved to Buenos Aires in 1941, where he completed high school. Although he started studying philosophy at university, he abandoned it and did a number of different jobs, including editorial. In the late 1940s he joined the Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista, from which he later moved to the Peronist cause.
In 1953 he received the Buenos Aires Municipal Literature Award for his book Variaciones en Rojo. In 1957 he finished Operación Masacre, an investigative work on the assassination of opposition figures duri -
Chantal Maillard
Poeta y filósofa española de origen belga (Bruselas, 1951). Doctora en Filosofía y Profesora Titular de Estética y Teoría de las Artes, vivió largas temporadas en Benarés, India, en cuya Universidad se especializó en Filosofía y Religión India. Hasta el año 2000 impartió docencia en el Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Málaga, donde impulsó los estudios de Filosofía y Estética comparadas. Desde 1998, ha colaborado con críticas de filosofía, estética y pensamiento oriental en los Suplementos Culturales de los principales Diarios de la prensa española y sigue haciéndolo en El País. Es autora de numerosos ensayos, cuadernos y poemarios. Ha traducido y editado a Henri Michaux y colaborado con otras ediciones en la difusión del pens
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Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman is one of the most read and influential poets in the Spanish language. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956 and has been translated into fourteen languages. A political activist and critical journalist since his youth, Gelman has not only been a literary paradigm but also a moral one, within and outside of Argentina. Among his most recent awards are the National Poetry Prize (Argentina, 1997), the Juan Rulfo Prize in Latin American and Caribbean Literature (Mexico, 2000), the Pablo Neruda Prize (Chile, 2005), the Queen Sofia Prize in Ibero-American Poetry (Spain, 2005), and the Cervantes Prize (the most important award given to a Hispanic writer, Spain, 2007).
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Idea Vilariño
Idea Vilariño (Montevideo, 1920-2009) fue una poeta, ensayista y crítica literaria uruguaya perteneciente al grupo de escritores denominado Generación del 45. Dentro de sus facetas menos conocidas se encuentran la de traductora, compositora y docente.
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Vilariño was one of the outstanding figures of Uruguayan poetry, with her lyric creations collected in works such as “La Suplicante” (The Supplicant), “Poemas de Amor” (Love Poems) and “Nocturnos” (Nocturnes).
Also known as an essayist and literary critic, she was a member of the writers’ group called the Generation of 45, to which Mario Benedetti, 88, also belonged and who is currently in a Montevideo hospital in critical condition.
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Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro is the pen name of José Alfredo Zendejas Pineda, Mexican poet and co-founder of the infrarrealista poetry movement along with Roberto Bolaño. He died after being hit by a car on January 10, 1998 in Mexico City.
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Olga Orozco
Olga Orozco (1920-1999) (real name Olga Noemí Gugliotta) was an Argentine poet born in Toay, La Pampa. She spent her childhood in Bahía Blanca until she was 16 years old and she moved to Buenos Aires with her parents where she initiated her career as a writer.
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Orozco directed some literary publications using some pseudonymous names while she worked as a journalist. She was a member of so-called «Tercera Vanguardia» generation, which had a strong surrealist tendency . Her poetic works were influenced by Rimbaud, Nerval, Baudelaire, Miłosz and Rilke.
Olga Orozco died in Buenos Aires at the age of 79 because of a cardiac crisis.
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Marília Garcia
Marília Garcia nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1979. Graduou-se em letras na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, onde defendeu a dissertação Velocidades e vozes sobre o livro Galáxias, de Haroldo de Campos. Tradutora, também integra o conselho da revista de poesia Inimigo Rumor, da editora 7Letras. Seu primeiro livro foi Encontro às cegas (Moby Dick, 2001). Lançou, em 2007, 20 poemas para o seu walkman, uma coedição Cosac Naify e 7Letras. O livro integra a coleção Ás de Colete e concorreu ao Prêmio Portugal Telecom de 2008.
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Edmundo Valadés
Defensor y propulsor del cuento como género y más en particular del cuento hispanoamericano y mexicano, además de ser uno de los primeros promotores de la microficción en América Latina a través de su revista El Cuento.
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David Pinner
David Pinner was born in 1940. After school and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he appeared with repertory companies at Sheffield, Perth, Coventry (Belgrade Theatre) and Windsor. By 1969 he had written thirteen plays, including ‘Fanghorn’, ‘Dickon’, ‘Lightfall’ and ‘Eiderdown’. RITUAL was his first novel.
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Guadalupe Amor
Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein, who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet.
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She was born in Mexico City, the youngest child of a family with seven children, of mixed French, German and Spanish ancestry, a member of the Mexican aristocracy. Her parents were Carolina Schmidtlein y García Teruel (of German and Spanish origin) and Emmanuel Amor Subervielle (of Spanish and French origin). Her family's financial woes after the revolution are narrated in Yo soy mi casa. Amor was exposed to art at an early age through her sister Ines, who ran a gallery in Mexico City.
Amor defied the Catholic customs of her time. Her love life was intense and varied, she was a single mother, and expressed her doubts about God in her poetry. During her you -
Ana Juan
Ana Juan is an illustrator and painter.
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After graduating in Fine Arts from Universidad Politécnica in Valencia (1982), she moved to Madrid at the height of the movida madrileña and in the early 1980s she collaborated with magazines such as La Luna and Madriz.
In 1991 she temporarily moved to Paris and exhibited in Geneve and New York; in 1994 she received a fellowship by the Japanese publishing house Kodansha and lived in Japan for three months.
Back in Madrid, in 1995 she started contributing to The New Yorker, for which she has designed more than 20 covers over the years.
In 1998 and 1999 she was awarded the Gold Medal (category: Illustration) by the Society of Newspaper Design and on September 24, 2010 she was awarded the “Premio Nacional de -
Hans Kelsen
Hans Kelsen was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He was the author of the 1920 Austrian Constitution, which to a very large degree is still valid today. Due to the rise of totalitarianism in Austria (and a 1929 constitutional change), Kelsen left for Germany in 1930 but was forced to leave this university post after Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 because of his Jewish ancestry. That year he left for Geneva and later moved to the United States in 1940. In 1934, Roscoe Pound lauded Kelsen as "undoubtedly the leading jurist of the time." While in Vienna, Kelsen met Sigmund Freud and his circle, and wrote on the subject of social psychology and sociology.
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David Slonim
David Slonim is an award-winning illustrator of many children’s books, including The Deer Watch by Pat Lowery Collins. He lives with his wife, four kids, and a dog named Maggie in Indiana.
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Felix Yusupov
Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, was a Russian aristocrat, a prince and count, best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, Donizetti was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century. Donizetti's close association with the bel canto style was undoubtedly an influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi.
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Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. Although he did not come from a musical background, at an early age he was taken under the wing of composer Simon Mayr who had enrolled him by means of a full scholarship in a school which he had set up. There he received detailed training in the arts of fugue and counterpoint. Mayr was also instrumental in obtaining a place -
Xavier Villaurrutia
Xavier Villaurrutia y González was a Mexican poet and playwright, whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas, called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos published in 1953.
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Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean poet and physicist. He was considered one of the most influential poets in the Spanish language of the 20th century, often compared with Pablo Neruda.
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Fiodor Dostoïevski
French orthographical variant author record for Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Kaita Murayama
Kaita Murayama was a Taisho era, Japanese author and painter. He was educated at the Fine Arts Academy in Tokyo and was influenced by Western art styles. One of his self-portraits appears in the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Tsu Mie Prefecture, Japan, he painted this self-portrait in 1918 before his untimely death in Tokyo, 1919.
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Andrés de Claramonte
Andrés de Claramonte y Corroy (Murcia c. 1580 – September 19, 1626) was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age.
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Gabriela Cantu Westendarp
Gabriela Cantú Westendarp, Monterrey, 1972. Es Licenciada en Estudios Internacionales por la Universidad de Monterrey y Master en Ciencias con especialidad en Lengua y Literatura por la UANL. Ha sido productora de radio y televisión. Becaria del Centro de Escritores de Nuevo León en 2006. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Poesía Ramón López Velarde. Ha publicado los poemarios Naturaleza Muerta (UANL, 2011), El filo de la playa (Mantis Editores, 2007). El efecto (Conarte, 2006), Poemas al árbol (UANL, 2009) y Material Peligroso (Hiperión/UANL 2015). Su obra ha sido seleccionada en antologías en México y el extranjero. Es directora de Difusión Cultural de la Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey y forma parte del Consejo Editorial del periódico E
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Raúl González Tuñón
Raúl González Tuñón (29 March 1905 – 14 August 1974) was an Argentine poet and writer from Buenos Aires. He was one of the first poets to combine aesthetic vanguard with social vanguard. Later he focused on revolutionary poetry. Between his most notable works are «El violín del diablo», «La calle del agujero en la media», «La rosa blindada» and «La muerte en Madrid».
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Roger Peyrefitte
Born in Castres, Tarn to a wealthy family, Peyrefitte went to Jesuit and Lazarist boarding schools and then studied language and literature in Toulouse. After graduating first of his year from Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris in 1930, he worked as an embassy secretary in Athens between 1933 and 1938. Back in Paris, he had to resign in 1940 for personal reasons before being reintegrated in 1943 and finally ending his diplomatic career in 1945. In his novels, he often treated controversial themes and his work put him at odds with the Roman Catholic church.
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He wrote openly about his homoerotic experiences in boarding school in his 1944 first novel Les amitiés particulières (Particular Friendships -- a term used in seminaries to refer to f -
Efraim Medina Reyes
Es un escritor autor de las novelas Seis informes, Erase una vez el amor pero tuve que matarlo publicada por Editorial Babilonia en el año 2002, Sexualidad de la Pantera Rosa, Técnicas de masturbación entre Batman y Robin, la colección de poemas Pistoleros/Putas y Dementes (Greatest Hits) y el libro de relatos Cinema árbol.
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Sus libros han sido traducidos a varios idiomas. Medina Reyes ha incursionado en el cine escribiendo y dirigiendo las películas "Tres horas mirando un chimpancé" y "Eso no me infla la banana". En su faceta de periodista colabora con revistas como Soho, Trip de Brasil e Internazionale de Italia. Ha sido bajista y autor de todas las canciones de 7 Torpes y con esta banda está próximo a lanzar en Italia lo que el llama un " -
Taï-Marc Le Thanh
Né le 5 juillet 1967, Taï-Marc Le Thanh a étudié les arts graphiques, en premier lieu à l’Atelier de Sèvres à Paris, puis aux Beaux arts de Rueil-Malmaison et enfin à l’EMSAT. Il intègre alors un groupe de presse informatique où il devient graphiste. C’est ensuite aux éditions Eyrolles qu’il écrit un premier ouvrage sur… le logiciel Photoshop ! On est encore loin de l’écriture de fiction, mais très vite, il entame sa carrière d’auteur d’albums, aux côtés d’illustrateurs de renom tels que Rébecca Dautremer (Babayaga, Cyrano, Le Grand Courant d’air, Elvis…), mais aussi Aurélia Fronty, Élodie Nouhen, Jacques de Loustal, Merlin, Benjamin Chaud, Barroux, Gérald Guerlais… Depuis début 2010, il se consacre entièrement à l’écriture de la série Jona
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Wei Hui
Zhou Weihui (simplified Chinese: 周卫慧; traditional Chinese: 周衛慧) is a Chinese writer, living and working in Shanghai and New York. She is known in the West also as "Wei Hui".
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Her novel Shanghai Baby (2000) was banned in the People's Republic of China as "decadent". Her latest novel Marrying Buddha (2005) was censored, modified and published in China under a modified title.
Wei Hui has been regarded by international media as a spokeswoman of the new generation of Chinese young women. She has presented her work in a large number of Western publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, the BBC, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Stern, Welt am Sonntag, The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Yomiuri Shimbun, -
Jaime Sabines
Poeta y político mexicano, considerado como uno de los grandes poetas mexicanos del siglo XX
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Sus primeros pasos por la poesía fueron "Instrospección", "A mi madre", "Siento que te pierdo" y "Primaveral", los anteriores fueron publicados en el periódico El Estudiante, una publicación de las sociedades estudiantiles de la Escuela Normal y de la Preparatoria de Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
En 1949 regresa a la Ciudad de México para ingresar a la licenciatura en «Lengua y literatura española» en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Fue alumno de Julio Torri, Agustín Yáñez, José Gaos y Eduardo Nicol. Entre sus compañeros de clase, destacan los nombres de Emilio Carballido, Sergio Magaña, Sergio Galindo, Rosario Cas -
Blanca Varela
Blanca Leonor Varela Gonzáles was considered one of the most important poets of Latin American literature.
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Rafael Cadenas
Rafael Cadenas es un poeta, ensayista y profesor universitario venezolano. Formó parte del grupo «Tabla Redonda» a comienzos de la década de los sesenta. En 1985 recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Venezuela y en 2009 el Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances, en Guadalajara, México.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (c. 1451–1506) was a Genoese navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Although not the first to reach the Americas from Europe—he was preceded by the Norse, led by Leif Ericson, who built a temporary settlement 500 years earlier at L'Anse aux Meadows — Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans. With his four voyages of discovery and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Queen Isabella of Spain, he initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the "New World." (T
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Amanda Michalopoulou
Amanda Michalopoulou (Greek: Αμάντα Μιχαλοπούλου) is a Greek author known for her novels, short stories, and children's books. She studied French literature in Athens and journalism in Paris and later worked as a contributing editor for Kathimerini. She began her literary career with short stories, winning the Revmata Prize in 1993. Her debut collection Life is Colourful Out There appeared in 1994, followed by award-winning titles such as I'd Like, which earned the National Endowment for the Arts' International Literature Award in 2008. Her novels include Octopus Garden and Bright Day, and her writing has been featured in The Guardian, Harvard Review, and World Literature Today. Widely translated into 20 languages, she currently teaches cre
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Teresa Wilms Montt
Teresa de las Mercedes Wilms Montt, nació el 8 de septiembre de 1893 en la ciudad de Viña del Mar, en el seno de una acomodada familia compuesta por Federico Guillermo Wilms Montt y Brieba, y su señora Luz Victoria Montt y Montt. Dado el contexto social de la época, su instrucción estuvo a cargo de institutrices y profesores particulares. Cuando Teresa tenía 17 años, contrajo matrimonio con Gustavo Balmaceda Valdés. En los años siguientes (1911 y 1913) nacieron sus dos únicas hijas, Elisa y Silvia Luz.
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A poco andar el matrimonio, comenzaron las desavenencias entre Gustavo y Teresa, principalmente debido a las molestias del primero ante la personalidad de su mujer, quien había comenzado a frecuentar tertulias y ateneos y se había adscrito a l -
Ida Vitale
Ida Vitale (Montevideo, 2 de noviembre de 1923) es una poeta, traductora, ensayista, profesora y crítica literaria uruguaya. Entre los premios que ha recibido destacan en 2015 el Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana, en 2016 el Premio Internacional de Poesía Federico García Lorca y en 2018 el Premio Cervantes.
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Considerada integrante de la Generación del 45 con otros escritores uruguayos como Mario Benedetti, Juan Carlos Onetti, Carlos Maggi o Idea Vilariño, es también madre del economista Claudio Rama Vitale, y cuarta generación de emigrantes italianos en Uruguay, donde se formó en una familia culta y cosmopolita. Lectora preferente de obras históricas, su descubrimiento de dos poetas uruguayas de entresiglos, Delmira Agustini y, en e -
S. Qiouyi Lu
S. Qiouyi Lu writes, translates, and edits between two coasts of the Pacific. Their work has appeared in several award-winning venues. They edit the magazine Arsenika and run microverses, a hub for tiny narratives.
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Leopoldo María Panero
Leopoldo María Panero es un poeta desarraigado, un hombre desclasado que trabaja con sus versos contra la sociedad y contra él mismo, un ser que sufre del complejo de autodestrucción y que transforma ese complejo, esa autodestrucción, en obra de arte. Un maldito, en definitiva. Leopoldo María Panero, aquejado de malditismo, se suicida a cámara lenta y, de esta manera, es capaz de hacer su obra con prisas, iluminada con destellos e impulsada, paradójicamente, por ese descenso hacia el fondo del abismo que, en realidad, busca truncar con violencia, dejar inacabada, esa misma obra. Panero, que busca la poesía en la abominación, reivindica como clave poética la máxima de Mallarmé: «La destruction fut ma Beatrice».
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Yamatogawa
Yamatogawa is one of the most prolific adult manga-kas (Japanese Comic Artist) that specializes in art and storytelling. He is best known for his best-selling hit, Power Play! His first work was published in Japan in March 2006 making him a relatively new artist in the adult comic market. His stories contain humor, comedy, relationship building, and most of all...vanilla stories.
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His drawing is detailed and consistent, his characters lovely and, of course, it is easy to turn oneself one with his works.
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Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. His father was a teacher and taught Latin and Greek and in Aberystwyth, Wales. In 1898, Alfred attended Exeter College in Oxford. Though he failed to earn a degree, the young poet published his first collection of poetry, The Loom of Years, in 1902.
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Between 1903 and 1908, Noyes published five volumes of poetry including The Forest of Wild Thyme (1905) and The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907). His books were widely reviewed and were published both in Britain and the United States. Among his best-known poems from this time are The Highwayman and Drake. Drake, which appeared serially in Blackwood's Magazine, was a two-hundred page epic about life at sea.
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Julián Herbert
Julián Herbert (Acapulco, 1971) es escritor, músico y profesor. Es autor de dos libros de relatos, Soldados muertos y Cocaína (manual de usuario), dos novelas, Un mundo infiel y Canción de tumba (Literatura Random House), dos libros de crónica, Algunas estúpidas razones para volver a Berlín y La casa del dolor ajeno. También es autor de varios libros de poesía entre los que destacan El nombre de esta casa, La resistencia, Kubla Khan y Pastilla camaleón.
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Julián Herbert ha obtenido varios premios: Mención honorífica en el Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Elías Nandino (1999), Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen (2003), Premio Nacional de Cuento Juan José Arreola (2006), Premio Nacional de Cuento Agustín Yáñez (2008), Premio Jaén de Nove -
Victoria Ocampo
Writer, critic and publisher of the legendary literary magazine Sur, she was one of the most prominent South American women of her time. Sister of the writer Silvina Ocampo.
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Li Ang
Li Ang (李昂; real name Shih Shu-tuan with Li Ang being her pen name) (born April 7, 1952, in Lukang, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese feminist writer. After graduating from Chinese Culture University with a degree in philosophy, she studied drama at the University of Oregon, after which she returned to teach at her alma mater. Her major work is The Butcher's Wife (殺夫: 1983, tr. 1986), though she has a copious output. Feminist themes and sexuality are present in much of her work. Many of her stories are set in Lukang.
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Li Ang is known for her idiosyncratic, candid and penetrating insights on gender politics in the social life in contemporary Taiwan. Beginning her writing career at the age of 16, she has published nearly twenty novels and collections of s -
Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin
Alexander Ivanovich Oparin was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life, and for his book The Origin of Life. He also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells.
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Natalia Hatt
Natalia Hatt es profesora de inglés, editora, y escritora de novelas juveniles en las que predominan lo paranormal, el suspenso y la fantasía. Nació en el año 1987 en Balcarce, Buenos Aires. Estudió el profesorado de inglés en la Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos, provincia en la que creció y se radicó.
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Ya de pequeña ideaba historias fantásticas para entretener a sus hermanas menores, y se interesó por la escritura en su adolescencia. Sin embargo, completó su primera novela recién a los veinticuatro años, cuando descubrió Wattpad y comenzó a publicar sus historias en forma serial. Su saga Sangre enamorada fue muy exitosa en este sitio y fue publicada en el 2017 por Nova Casa Editorial.
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Manuel Curros Enríquez
Manuel Curros Enríquez, nado en Celanova o 15 de setembro de 1851 e finado na Habana o 7 de marzo de 1908, foi un poeta e xornalista galego, un dos tres principais representantes do Rexurdimento da literatura galega, xunto a Rosalía de Castro e Eduardo Pondal.
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Li Bai
Li Bai (Chinese: 李白, 701–762), also known as Li Bo or Li Taibai, was one of the most celebrated poets of the Tang dynasty and remains one of the greatest poets in Chinese history. Renowned for his romanticism, vivid imagery, and effortless flow, his poetry has captivated readers for over a millennium. Alongside Du Fu, he is considered a towering figure of classical Chinese poetry. His works reflect a deep appreciation for nature, the joys and sorrows of life, and a fascination with Daoist philosophy, all infused with an unmistakable sense of personal freedom and spontaneity.
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Born in 701 CE, likely in Suyab (modern-day Kyrgyzstan) or what is now Gansu province, China, Li Bai spent his early years in Sichuan, where his family relocated during -
Carlos Gagini
He was born in Costa Rica, in a family of Swiss descent. He was a significant figure in linguistics and literature in Costa Rica. His work in language studies formed the basis for a large part of Costa Rican academic exploration during the twentieth century.
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Stella Díaz Varín
"No. La poesía no es una ecuación biológica. La poesía, si tú la pudieras definir -porque es indefinible- es un arranque sentimental, es una memoria de otro arranque sentimental, nada más". De personalidad polémica y rupturista, integrante de la Generación Literaria de 1950, Stella Díaz Varín se perfiló como una voz singular y trascendente en la historia de la literatura chilena. Su poesía fue una expresión original, que plasmó su fuerte personalidad creativa y bohemia, con una perspectiva femenina.
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Nació el 11 de agosto de 1926, en La Serena. El 1 de mayo de 1947 llegó a Santiago para estudiar medicina, con el firme propósito de especializarse en psiquiatría, carrera que no concluyó. En cambio se integró activamente a la Alianza de Intelect -
Patrícia Lino
Patrícia Lino (1990) is a poet, an essayist, and Associate Professor of poetry and visual arts at UCLA. Among her books, videopoems, translations, and sound experiences are, for instance, A Ilha das Afeições (2023), Barriga ao Alto (2023), Aula de Música (2022), O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial (2020), I Who Cannot Sing (2020), Manoel de Barros e a Poesia Cínica (2019) or Vibrant Hands (2019). Lino's work has been published and presented in more than 8 countries.
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Patrícia Lino (1990) é poeta, ensaísta e Professora Associada de poesia e artes visuais na UCLA. Entre os seus livros, videopoemas, traduções e experiências sonoras constam, por exemplo, A Ilha das Afeições (2023), Barriga ao Alto (2023), Aula de -
Carlos Reyes
Guionista de historietas, comunicador audiovisual y docente. Miembro fundador de www.ergocomics.cl, facebook y sitio web para el que escribe artículos y entrevistas sobre narrativa gráfica. Ha organizado y participado en diversos festivales de historieta y en la fundación de un par de editoriales. Ha colaborado con prólogos, ensayos, entrevistas e historietas en diversas publicaciones chilenas y extranjeras.
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Olga Novo
Olga Novo (1975 in Vilarmao, A Pobra do Brollón) is a Galician poet and essayist.
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She studied Galcian Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela and was a high school teacher in several Galician centres, and a Galician literature professor at the University of Southern Brittany, in Lorient.
She has published her works and essays in several publications (Festa da Palabra Silenciada, Dorna, Xistral, El País, ABC…). -
Tamara Andrés Padín
Tamara Andrés (Pontevedra, 1992) es graduada en Traducción e Interpretación por la Universidad de Vigo y titulada en el Máster en Estudios de la Literatura y de la Cultura de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
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En 2015 publicó Amentalista con la editorial Diversidad Literaria. En el ámbito de la poesía ha ganado el Concurso de Poesía O Facho en el año 2015 con su obra Nenæspiraes y su conjunto de poemas Xogos surrealistas se puede encontrar dentro del libro Premio 2014 de relato, poesía e tradución da Universidade de Vigo.
Sus palabras encuentran refugio en varias páginas digitales en las que colabora de forma habitual, como en el proyecto de creación literaria La metafísica del circo, del que es co-creadora, en la revista de difusión -
Mahmud Darwish
See Mahmoud Darwish.
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Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: مَحمُود دَرْوِيْش,) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet. In 1988, Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declaration for the creation of a State of Palestine. Darwish won numerous awards for his works. In his poetic works, Darwish explored Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile. He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry." He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Darwish wrote in Arabi -
Mariano Blatt
Mariano Blatt es poeta y editor.
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Publicó, entre otros, los libros: Increíble (El niño Stanton, 2007), Mi juventud unida (Mansalva, 2015), 200 ideas de libros (Iván Rosado, 2017) y Un lago que sube (Neutrinos, 2021). En Caballo negro publicó, en 2022, Alguna vez pensé esto (diarios 2012-2021), una edición aumentada de la que se publicó por editorial Triana en 2014. -
Cristina López Barrio
Cristina López Barrio (Madrid, 1970) estudió Derecho en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y se ha especializado en propiedad intelectual.
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Asimismo, se ha formado en el Taller Literario de Clara Obligado y su primera novela, 'El hombre que se mareaba con la rotación de la Tierra', fue un libro juvenil con el que ganó el II Premio Villa de Pozuelo de Alarcón de Novela Juvenil, de la editorial Everest (2009).