Claudia Hernández

Claudia Hernández González es una escritora salvadoreña. Nació en San Salvador, en 1975. Licenciada en comunicaciones por la Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, realizó también estudios de derecho. A partir de finales de la década de 1990 ha publicado relatos sueltos en el suplemento TresMil del diario CoLatino y en la revista Hablemos de El Diario de Hoy en El Salvador. En 1998 ganó el primer honorífico del premio Juan Rulfo de Radio Francia Internacional, por su cuento “Un demonio de segunda mano”. Hernández ha publicado seis colecciones de cuentos, entre ellas Otras ciudades (2001), Mediodía de frontera (2002), Olvida Uno (2005), De fronteras (2007) La canción del mar (2007) y Causas Naturales (2013). En 2004 obtuvo el prestigioso pr

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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".
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Violaine Bérot

Violaine Bérot est une femme de lettres française. Elle est la fille de Marcellin Bérot, montagnard enraciné dans les Pyrénées et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur les Pyrénées, et de Marie-Claude Bérot, puéricultrice et auteur de livres jeunesse.

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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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Gabriela Wiener

Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975) es una escritora peruana, cronista, poeta y periodista, afincada en Barcelona desde el año 2003. Forma parte del grupo de nuevos cronistas latinoamericanos. Casada con el poeta y periodista Jaime Rodríguez Z.. Tiene una hija.

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Ana Paula Maia

Ana Paula Maia (Nova Iguaçu, 1977) is a Brazilian writer, scriptwriter and musician.

During her adolescence she player at a punk rock band and studied piano. As a scriptwriter she took part in the script of the short film O entregador de pizza (2001), and along with Mauro Santa Cecilia and Ricardo Petraglia, she wrote the theatrical monologue O rei dos escombros assembled in 2003 by the Moacyr Chaves firm. She published her first novel under the title O habitante das falhas subterrâneas in 2003.

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Alma Delia Murillo

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Laura Ortiz Gómez

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Salomé Esper

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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (San Isidro, 4 de noviembre de 1968) es una escritora y periodista argentina. Es considerada una de las figuras más prominentes de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea, además de ser una destacada intelectual y activista feminista y socioambientalista.
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