Carlos Oquendo de Amat

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  Sophocles

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  Pablo Neruda

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  It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h

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  Julio Ramón Ribeyro

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  Ocean Vuong

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  Daniel Hidalgo

  Autor de la novelita breve Barrio Miseria 221, publicada por editorial Animita Cartonera (Stgo, 2007), y del libro de cuentos Canciones Punk para Señoritas Autodestructivas, publicado por Ediciones Das Kapital (Stgo. 2011). Otros textos míos han aparecido en algunas antologías de Valparaíso y Santiago. He colaborado con medios como Ciudad Invisible, Paniko.cl, Indie.cl, Disorder.cl, 60watts.net, Zona de Contacto de El Mercurio, El Mostrador y El Dínamo, entre otros, con columnas, reseñas y entrevistas de cultura (principalmente rock y literatura). Fui parte del equipo editorial de la revista de asuntos políticos y culturales Ciudad Invisible (valpo) y director de su suplemento literario: Inxilio, y actualmente soy editor de la e-zine Paniko

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  Golgona Anghel

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  César Hildebrandt

  César Hildebrandt nació en Lima, Perú el 7 de agosto de 1948. Desde muy joven trabajó en el semanario de circulación nacional Caretas y en diversos medios de comunicación como columnista. Estudió Educación con especialidad de Lengua y Literatura, en la Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal. Por su temprana fama como investigador acucioso y bien leído, así como por sus puntos de vista agudos y provocadores, se convirtió rápidamente en director de diferentes revistas y publicaciones como la fundación del semanario ’Sí’ y el diario ’Liberación’ que luchó contra la dictadura de Alberto Fujimori.
  Menciona Hildebrandt en un artículo periodístico que comenzó en la televisión a los 32 años y que este medio que lo vio envejecer, también lo despidi

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  Prisca Agustoni

  Prisca Agustoni, born in Lugano in 1975, has been living between Switzerland and Brazil since 2003. In Brazil she teaches Comparative Literature and Italian at a university. She writes poetry and prose and translates from the Italian and Portuguese.

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  Camila Sosa Villada

  Argentine writer born in La Falda, Córdoba, in 1982.

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  Claudia Ulloa Donoso

  Claudia Ulloa Donoso (born 6 September 1979) is a Peruvian writer. She was born in Lima, and studied tourism in her native Peru before studying Spanish at the University of Tromsø.
  Her published work includes the short story collections El pez que aprendió a caminar and Pajarito, as well as Séptima Madrugada based on the weblog of the same name.
  In 2017, she was living in the north of Norway when she was included in the Bogota39 list of the most promising young writers in Latin America.

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  Daniel Hidalgo

  Autor de la novelita breve Barrio Miseria 221, publicada por editorial Animita Cartonera (Stgo, 2007), y del libro de cuentos Canciones Punk para Señoritas Autodestructivas, publicado por Ediciones Das Kapital (Stgo. 2011). Otros textos míos han aparecido en algunas antologías de Valparaíso y Santiago. He colaborado con medios como Ciudad Invisible, Paniko.cl, Indie.cl, Disorder.cl, 60watts.net, Zona de Contacto de El Mercurio, El Mostrador y El Dínamo, entre otros, con columnas, reseñas y entrevistas de cultura (principalmente rock y literatura). Fui parte del equipo editorial de la revista de asuntos políticos y culturales Ciudad Invisible (valpo) y director de su suplemento literario: Inxilio, y actualmente soy editor de la e-zine Paniko

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  Golgona Anghel

  Golgona Anghel (1979) is a portuguese poet born in Romania.

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  César Hildebrandt

  César Hildebrandt nació en Lima, Perú el 7 de agosto de 1948. Desde muy joven trabajó en el semanario de circulación nacional Caretas y en diversos medios de comunicación como columnista. Estudió Educación con especialidad de Lengua y Literatura, en la Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal. Por su temprana fama como investigador acucioso y bien leído, así como por sus puntos de vista agudos y provocadores, se convirtió rápidamente en director de diferentes revistas y publicaciones como la fundación del semanario ’Sí’ y el diario ’Liberación’ que luchó contra la dictadura de Alberto Fujimori.
  Menciona Hildebrandt en un artículo periodístico que comenzó en la televisión a los 32 años y que este medio que lo vio envejecer, también lo despidi

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  Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez

  Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico).

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