Cecilia Alfaro Gómez
CECILIA ALFARO GÓMEZ (París, 1985) es escritora e ingeniera civil de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Futrono, su primera novela, ganó el Premio Municipal de Santiago 2023, categoría novela inédita.
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Avellaneda nació en Limache en 1989. Ha publicado los libros de relatos “Heroína” (Hebra, 2010, cuando estudiaba Pedagogía en Castellano en la PUCV) y “La extravía” (Ediciones del Desierto, 2015). El primero tiene las mismas formas breves que en “Souza” (Komorebi), que esta vez constituyen un puzzle novelístico.
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Escritor y periodista chileno, ha logrado una gran repercusión en el panorama editorial de su país gracias a sus libros Siútico y La era ochentera. Contardo ha trabajado para medios como Artes y Letras, aunque ahora se dedica al periodismo freelance.
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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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Georges Perec
Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.
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Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.
Perec's first novel, Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties) was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1965.
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José Donoso
From Wikipedia: José Manuel Donoso Yáñez (5 October 1924 – 7 December 1996), known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he said his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death.
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Donoso is the author of a number of short stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the Latin American literary boom. His best known works include the novels Coronación (Coronation), El lugar sin límites (Hell Has No Limits) and El obsc -
Amélie Nothomb
Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japan at the age of two until she was five years old. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos.
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She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).
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Nathalie Léger
Nathalie Léger is an award-winning French author living in Paris, as well as an editor, an archivist and a curator. Supplément à la vie de Barbara Loden won the prestigious Prix du livre Inter 2012, voted for by readers across France. Other works include L’Exposition (2008), a semi-fictionalised essay about the enigmatic Countess of Castiglione, the most photographed woman in late 19th century Paris; and Les Vies Silencieuses de Samuel Beckett (2006). She curated the 2002 exhibition on Roland Barthes and the 2007 exhibition on Samuel Beckett, both at the Pompidou Centre. Since 2013 she has been the Director of the Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine (IMEC), a unique cultural institute dedicated to the archives of 20th and 21st cent
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Francisca Solar
Francisca Solar (1983) es una escritora chilena publicada en 20 países y con más de 150.000 copias vendidas, autora de novelas y cuentos para niños, jóvenes y adultos en diversos géneros, si bien es mayormente reconocida por sus títulos de Ficción Histórica. A los 22 años se convirtió en la escritora más joven de su país en firmar un contrato de edición internacional con base en España. Es Licenciada en Comunicación Social y Periodista, Máster en Neurociencias Aplicadas y con estudios posteriores en Criminología, Psicología Forense y Guión de Cine. Su última novela, El Buzón de las Impuras, ha sido publicada en 8 países e ingresó al ranking de bestsellers de Chile desde su estreno, manteniéndose 30 semanas consecutivas hasta la fecha (dic 2
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Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents, Multiple Choice, Not to Read, Chilean Poet and Childish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s, among other places.
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Cynan Jones
Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works.
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He is the author of five short novels, The Long Dry, Everything I Found on the Beach, Bird, Blood, Snow, The Dig, and Cove.
He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous international prizes and won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award (2007), a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize (2014), the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize (2015) and the BBC National Short Story Award (2017).
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Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first novel and is longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.
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Nona Fernández
Patricia Paola Fernández Silanes (Santiago, 1971), más conocida como Nona Fernández, es una actriz, escritora, guionista y feminista chilena.
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Hija única de madre soltera, Nona Fernández creció en un barrio de avenida Matta cercano al mercado persa Bíobío. Como actriz, fundó la compañía Merri Melodys, participó en montajes de muchas obras teatrales y ganó como mejor actriz un concurso del Centro Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura.
Sus cuentos aparecieron primero en diversas antologías de concursos, y su primer libro de relatos salió a luz el año 2000: El cielo. Dos años más tarde publicó su premiada novela Mapocho. -
Luciano Lamberti
Luciano Lamberti holds a bachelor's degree in modern literature from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. He writes for local and national media, works as a high school language teacher, and leads the creative-writing workshop of the Provincial Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Córdoba
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Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Houston and was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2020.
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María José Ferrada
María José Ferrada is the author of Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War. She is a recipient of the Municipal Prize of Literature of Santiago, as well as the Academy Award from the Chilean Academy of Language. María currently works as the children's editor of Chilean Memory, a digital resource center of the National Library of Chile.
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Mauro Libertella
Writer and journalist born in México in 1983. After living in Buenos Aires all his life he is considered an Argentine author.
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Clyo Mendoza
Clyo Huitzilin Mendoza Herrera nació en Oaxaca, México, en 1993. Poeta y narradora, es autora de Anamnesis (Cuadrivio, 2016) y Silencio (Fondo editorial del Estado de México, 2018), libro por el cual obtuvo el Premio Internacional de Poesía Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz en 2017.
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Ha participado en las antologías Poetas parricidas (Cuadrivio, 2014), Tiembla (Almadía, 2018), Los reyes subterráneos. Veinte poetas jóvenes de México (La Bella Varsovia, 2015) y Todo pende de una transparencia. Muestra de poesía mexicana reciente (Vallejo & Company, 2016). Ha sido becaria del FONCA en los géneros de Poesía y Novela y residente becaria de la Fundación Antonio Gala, en Córdoba, España.
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Paulina Flores
Estudió literatura en la Universidad de Chile. En el 2011 obtuvo la beca de creación literaria del Fondo del Libro y la Lectura. El año 2014 ganó el Premio Roberto Bolaño, en la categoría cuento, por el relato “Qué vergüenza”.
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Andrés Montero
Escritor y narrador oral, cofundador de la Compañía La Matrioska. Es autor de "El año en que hablamos con el mar", "La muerte viene estilando", "Taguada" y "Tony Ninguno" y del ensayo "Por qué contar cuentos en el siglo XXI" y de los libros juveniles "Alguien toca la puerta", "Tres noches en la escuela", "En el horizonte se dibuja un barco" y "Bestiario de Chile".
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En 2017 obtuvo el X Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska de la Ciudad de México por la novela Tony Ninguno, y en 2022 recibió el Premio del Círculo de Críticos de Arte, el Premio de la Academia de la Lengua y el Premio Mejores Obras Literarias del Ministerio de las Culturas por La muerte viene estilando.
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Nina Avellaneda
Avellaneda nació en Limache en 1989. Ha publicado los libros de relatos “Heroína” (Hebra, 2010, cuando estudiaba Pedagogía en Castellano en la PUCV) y “La extravía” (Ediciones del Desierto, 2015). El primero tiene las mismas formas breves que en “Souza” (Komorebi), que esta vez constituyen un puzzle novelístico.
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xelsoi
xelsoi (Pudahuel, 1994) es un influencer, tallerista y escritor chileno. Es becario por el Fondo del Libro y la Lectura (2025, 2023) y fue destacado como uno de los 100 Jóvenes Líderes del País por El Mercurio (2023). Ha recibido menciones honrosas en los premios Óscar Castro Zúñiga (2023, 2022) y Roberto Bolaño (2018). Dirige talleres de lectura y escritura en Balmaceda Arte Joven (desde 2024) y Comunidad Maña (desde 2020). Publicó el relato Hambre (Imaginistas, 2023), ilustrado por Topopanda.
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xelsoi
xelsoi (Pudahuel, 1994) es un influencer, tallerista y escritor chileno. Es becario por el Fondo del Libro y la Lectura (2025, 2023) y fue destacado como uno de los 100 Jóvenes Líderes del País por El Mercurio (2023). Ha recibido menciones honrosas en los premios Óscar Castro Zúñiga (2023, 2022) y Roberto Bolaño (2018). Dirige talleres de lectura y escritura en Balmaceda Arte Joven (desde 2024) y Comunidad Maña (desde 2020). Publicó el relato Hambre (Imaginistas, 2023), ilustrado por Topopanda.
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