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Fernando Iwasaki

Fernando Iwasaki Cauti es un escritor, investigador, docente, filólogo e historiador peruano nacido en una familia de múltiples raíces (Perú, Japón, Ecuador e Italia). Actualmente reside en Sevilla, España.

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Alessandro Baricco

Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea (Viareggio Prize), Silk, City, Emmaus or Mr. Gwyn, among others.

He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.

Baricco hosted the book program "Pickwick" for Rai Tre, which, according to Claudio Paglieri, "invited Italians to rediscover the pleasure of reading." In 1994, he founded a school of "writing techniques" in Turin called Holden (as a tribute to Salinger), which, under his direction, has been a resounding success. Si

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Mario Bellatin

Mario Bellatin grew up in Peru as the son of Peruvian parents. He spent two years studying theology at the seminary Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo and graduated from the University of Lima. In 1987, Bellatin moved to Cuba, where he studied screenplay writing at the International Film School Latinoamericana. On his return to Mexico in 1995, he became the director of the Department of Literature and Humanities at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana and became a member of the National System of Creators of Mexico from 1999 to 2005. He is currently the director of the School of Writers Dynamics in Mexico City.

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Georges Bataille

French essayist, philosophical theorist, and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental act of communion. Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Sollers have all written enthusiastically about his work.

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l

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Mircea Cărtărescu

Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.

Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.

Among his writings: "Nostalgia" (a full edition of the earlier published "Visul"), 1993, "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, "Enc

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Cristina Peri Rossi

Uruguayan novelist, poet, and author of short stories.

Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay but was exiled in 1972, and moved to Spain, where she became a citizen in 1975. As of 2005[update] she lives in Barcelona, where she continues to write fiction and works as a journalist. She studied at the University of the Republic.

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Julio Ortega

Escritor, crítico peruano y profesor de la Universidad de Brown en Estados Unidos. Autor de "Una poética del cambio" (1992), "El principio radical de lo nuevo" (1997), "Trasatlantic Translations" (2006) y "Rubén Darío y la lectura mutua" (2004), entre otros textos. De su trabajo más reciente destaca "El hacer poético" (2011) en colaboración con María Ramírez Ribes.

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Osamu Dazai

Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.
With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan.

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Paul Auster

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Le

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Han Kang

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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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Karina Pacheco Medrano

Karina Pacheco Medrano es doctora en Antropología de América y experta en Desigualdad, Cooperación y Desarrollo por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ha publicado numerosos libros y artículos especializados en temas de cultura, desarrollo, racismo y discriminación. Como escritora, en 2006 publicó su primera novela, La voluntad del molle; el año 2008 ganó el Premio Regional de Novela del Instituto Nacional de Cultura de Cusco con No olvides nuestros nombres; en 2010 publicó la novela La sangre, el polvo, la nieve, así como su primer libro de cuentos, Alma alga. En 2012 publicó Cabeza y orquídeas, obra ganadora del Premio Nacional de Novela Federico Villarreal 2010. El año 2013 ha publicado el libro de cuentos El sendero de los rayos y la

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Carlos Calderón Fajardo

Carlos Calderón Fajardo fue sociólogo de profesión (PUCP). Publicó trabajos de su especialidad en varias revistas académicas y en diarios de circulación nacional.

En 1974 obtuvo el primer lugar en el concurso de cuento José María Arguedas. En 1981 ganó el concurso Unanue de novela con La colina de los árboles. En 1984 obtuvo el premio Gaviota Roja de novela con Así es la pena en el paraíso. En 1985, ganó el premio Hispamérica de cuento, organizado por la Universidad de Maryland, teniendo como jurado a Roa Bastos, Mario Vargas Llosa y Julio Cortazar. En el año 2006 fue considerado finalista del Premio Tusquets de novela en España con su novela El fantasma nostálgico.

Fe incluido en múltiples antologías del cuento peruano editadas en el Perú, F

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Tanya Tynjälä

Tanya Tynjälä nacida Tanya Moscoso Delgado es una escritora peruana de literatura fantástica y de ciencia ficción.

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Fernando Iwasaki

Fernando Iwasaki Cauti es un escritor, investigador, docente, filólogo e historiador peruano nacido en una familia de múltiples raíces (Perú, Japón, Ecuador e Italia). Actualmente reside en Sevilla, España.

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Mónica Ojeda

Mónica Ojeda was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1988. She has published novels, short stories, and poems, earning her nominations and accolades in various literary contests. In 2017, she was listed in Bogotá39 by the Hay Festival as one of the best Latin American fiction writers under forty. In 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in the Netherlands. In 2021, Granta magazine named her one of the best Spanish-language authors under 35.

Ojeda stands out as one of the leading figures in contemporary Latin American fiction literature. The author is renowned for her skill in crafting intense and unsettling narratives that delve into the darker aspects of human psychology. Her stories often explore themes such as abuse, obsess

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Rin Usami

Usami was born in Numazu, Shizuoka, and raised in Kanagawa Prefecture.She was awarded Bungei Prize for her first work Kaka (かか) in 2019. She was successively awarded Mishima Yukio Prize for the same work, which made her the youngest holder of the prize.She was also awarded the 164th Akutagawa Prize for her second work Oshi, Moyu (推し、燃ゆ).

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Carlos Calderón Fajardo

Carlos Calderón Fajardo fue sociólogo de profesión (PUCP). Publicó trabajos de su especialidad en varias revistas académicas y en diarios de circulación nacional.

En 1974 obtuvo el primer lugar en el concurso de cuento José María Arguedas. En 1981 ganó el concurso Unanue de novela con La colina de los árboles. En 1984 obtuvo el premio Gaviota Roja de novela con Así es la pena en el paraíso. En 1985, ganó el premio Hispamérica de cuento, organizado por la Universidad de Maryland, teniendo como jurado a Roa Bastos, Mario Vargas Llosa y Julio Cortazar. En el año 2006 fue considerado finalista del Premio Tusquets de novela en España con su novela El fantasma nostálgico.

Fe incluido en múltiples antologías del cuento peruano editadas en el Perú, F

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Tanya Tynjälä

Tanya Tynjälä nacida Tanya Moscoso Delgado es una escritora peruana de literatura fantástica y de ciencia ficción.

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