Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Albarracín was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the seventh President of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres and topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the "Generation of 1837", who had a great influence on nineteenth-century Argentina. Sarmiento himself was particularly concerned with educational issues, and is now sometimes considered "The Teacher" of Latin America. He was also an important influence on the region's literature.
Sarmiento grew up in a poor but politically active family that paved the way for much of his future accomplishments. Between 1843 and 1850 he was freque
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José Hernández
José Hernández (born José Rafael Hernández y Pueyrredón) (November 10, 1834 – October 21, 1886) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.
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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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Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horatius, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among schol
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Writings of Cuban author, musicologist, and diplomat Alejo Carpentier influenced the development of magical realism; his novels include El siglo de las luces! (1962) and The Kingdom of This World (1949).
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Alejo Carpentier Blagoobrasoff, an essayist, greatly influenced Latin American literature during its "boom" period.
Perhaps most important intellectual figure of the 20th century, this classically trained pianist and theorist of politics and literature produced avant-garde radio programming. Best known Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. With Havana, he strongly self-identified throughout his life. People jailed and exiled him, who lived for many -
Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig (born Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne) was an Argentinian author. Among his best known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968) (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth), Boquitas pintadas (1969) (Heartbreak Tango), and El beso de la mujer araña (1976) (Kiss of the Spider Woman), which was made into a film by the Argentine-Brazilian Director, Héctor Babenco and in 1993 into a Broadway musical.
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Manuel Mujica Lainez
Manuel Bernabé Mújica Láinez fue un escritor, biógrafo, crítico de arte y periodista argentino.
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En 1936, publicó Glosas castellanas, una serie de ensayos centrados en su mayor parte en el Quijote.
Tres años después, publicó Don Galaz de Buenos Aires. Le siguen las biografías de su antepasado Miguel Cané (padre), en 1942, más las de Hilario Ascasubi (Aniceto, el Gallo, 1943) y de Estanislao del Campo (Anastasio, el Pollo, 1947).
En 1949, publicó un libro de cuentos, Aquí vivieron, en torno a una quinta de San Isidro.
Su segundo libro de cuentos, Misteriosa Buenos Aires, se ambientó también en la capital de la Argentina y su historia desde la fundación, en la que mezcla personajes típicos ficticios con hechos y personajes reales.
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Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt was an Argentine writer born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His parents were both immigrants: his father Karl Arlt was a Prussian from Posen (now Poznan in present-day Poland) and his mother was Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer, a native of Trieste and Italian speaking. German was the language commonly used at their home. His relationship with his father was stressful, as Karl Arlt was a very severe and austere man, by Arlt's own account. The memory of his oppressive father would appear in several of his writings. For example, Remo Erdosain (a character at least partially based on Arlt's own life) often recalls his abusive father and how little if any support he would give him. After being expe
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Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Héctor Germán Oesterheld Puyol fue un guionista de historietas y escritor de relatos breves argentino de ciencia ficción y novelas
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Seudónimos: H. Sturgiss, C. de la Vega, Francisco G. Vázquez, Germán Sturgiss, Héctor Sánchez Puyol, Joe Trigger, Patrick Hanson.
Nació en el año 1919 en Buenos Aires. Hijo de Ferdinand Kurt. Estudió y se graduó en la carrera de geología. Fanático de H. Melville y Joseph Conrad. A partir de 1950 cuando comienza a escribir guiones de historietas y relatos de aventuras.
Publicó en las revistas "Misterix", "Hora Cero", "Frontera", entre otras. Sus personajes más conocidos son Sargento Kirk, Bull Rocket, Ernie Pike, Sherlock Time y Mort Cinder. Pero es sin dudas El Eternauta la creación que le ha dado un lugar entre lo -
José Hernández
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Juan José Saer
Juan José Saer was an Argentine writer, considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the 20th century. He is considered the most important writer of Argentina after Jorge Luis Borges and the best Argentine writer of the second half of the 20th century.
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José Eustasio Rivera
José Eustasio Rivera Salas was a Colombian lawyer and poet primarily known for his national epic The Vortex.
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After a failed attempt to be elected for the senate, he was appointed Legal Secretary of the Colombo-Venezuelan Border Commission to determine the limits with Venezuela, there he had the opportunity to travel through the Colombian jungles, rivers, and mountains, giving him a first hand experience of the subjects he would later write. Disappointed with the lack of resources offered by his government for his trip, he abandoned the commission and continued travelling on his own.
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Lucio V. Mansilla
Lucio Victorio Mansilla was an Argentine writer, journalist, traveler, politician and diplomatic, famous for his book An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians (Una excursión a los indios ranqueles), write after a journey through ranquel territory in 1870. He belongs to the politic and literary current know as 80' Generation (Generación del 80).
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Eugenio Cambaceres
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Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
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Fogwill was full professor at the University of Buenos Aires< publisher of a legendary poetry book collection, essayist, and specialized columnist in communication subjects, literature and cultural politics. The success of his story "Muchacha punk" (Punk girl), which received the first prize in an important literary contest in 1980, made him leave his job as a businessman, and begin, according to his words, "a plot of misunderstandings and misfortunes" that took him to his present occupation as a writer. Some of his texts have made their way into diverse anthologies published -
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.
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José Mármol
Journalist, politician, librarian, and writer of the Romantic school.
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Born in Buenos Aires, he initially studied law, but abandoned his studies in favor of politics. In 1839, no sooner had he begun to make a name for himself than he was arrested for his opposition to Argentina's conservative caudillo, Juan Manuel de Rosas. He was held in irons for six days. A year and a half later, the political climate spurred him, as it had many other Argentine dissenters, to flee the country. He found passage to Montevideo on a French schooner. He was welcomed by other exiles, among them Juan Bautista Alberdi, Florencio Varela, Esteban Echeverría, Juan María Gutiérrez, and Miguel Cané. Three years later, the siege of Montevideo by Rosas's ally Manuel Orib -
Esteban Echeverría
José Esteban Antonio Echeverría (September 2, 1805 – January 19, 1851) was an Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only through his own writings but also through his organizational efforts. He was one of Latin America's most important Romantic authors.
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Libertad Demitrópulos
Libertad Demitrópulos fue una escritora argentina.
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Nació en el departamento jujeño de Ledesma en 1922. A los 18 años comenzó a ejercer como maestra de escuelas en Jujuy hasta 1940, cuando viajó a Buenos Aires para estudiar letras. En 1978 se publica una de sus novelas más importantes, La flor de hierro y, tres años más tarde, Río de las congojas. Contrajo matrimonio con el poeta Joaquín Giannuzzi en 1951.
Un año antes de su muerte, recibe el Premio Boris Vian por Río de las congojas. Falleció en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires el 19 de julio de 1998.
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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
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Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011) fue un destacado escritor, ensayista y físico argentino. Nacido en Rojas, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, estudió física en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y posteriormente trabajó en el laboratorio Curie de París, antes de en 1945 volcarse por completo en la literatura.
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Su vida estuvo marcada por una constante reflexión sobre la condición humana, el arte y los dilemas éticos del siglo XX. Durante la última dictadura militar en Argentina, presidió la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP), que produjo el emblemático informe Nunca Más.
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Juana Manuela Gorriti
Juana Manuela Gorriti Zuviria (Horcones, Rosario de la Frontera, provincia de Salta, 15 de julio de 1818 - Buenos Aires, 6 de noviembre de 1896) fue una escritora argentina, aunque también se ha hecho célebre por las peripecias de su vida y por haber tenido como notoria afición la de ser cocinera.
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Fue la primera narradora argentina, una de las figuras femeninas mas originales e interesantes en la América del siglo XIX. De temperamento independiente -raro en una mujer de su época- carácter fuerte y gran talento.
Nació en el seno de una familia tradicional y adinerada. De ella heredo su disposición a las letras y las virtudes patricias, y con ellos soporto la angustia del destierro y la pobreza. Vivió el exilio en la Paz, Bolivia, donde se cas -
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Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt was an Argentine writer born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His parents were both immigrants: his father Karl Arlt was a Prussian from Posen (now Poznan in present-day Poland) and his mother was Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer, a native of Trieste and Italian speaking. German was the language commonly used at their home. His relationship with his father was stressful, as Karl Arlt was a very severe and austere man, by Arlt's own account. The memory of his oppressive father would appear in several of his writings. For example, Remo Erdosain (a character at least partially based on Arlt's own life) often recalls his abusive father and how little if any support he would give him. After being expe
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Juana Manso
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José Mármol
Journalist, politician, librarian, and writer of the Romantic school.
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Born in Buenos Aires, he initially studied law, but abandoned his studies in favor of politics. In 1839, no sooner had he begun to make a name for himself than he was arrested for his opposition to Argentina's conservative caudillo, Juan Manuel de Rosas. He was held in irons for six days. A year and a half later, the political climate spurred him, as it had many other Argentine dissenters, to flee the country. He found passage to Montevideo on a French schooner. He was welcomed by other exiles, among them Juan Bautista Alberdi, Florencio Varela, Esteban Echeverría, Juan María Gutiérrez, and Miguel Cané. Three years later, the siege of Montevideo by Rosas's ally Manuel Orib -
Lucio V. Mansilla
Lucio Victorio Mansilla was an Argentine writer, journalist, traveler, politician and diplomatic, famous for his book An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians (Una excursión a los indios ranqueles), write after a journey through ranquel territory in 1870. He belongs to the politic and literary current know as 80' Generation (Generación del 80).
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Estanislao del Campo
Estanislao del Campo Maciel y Luna Brizuela fue un militar, funcionario de gobierno y escritor argentino.
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En defensa del Estado de Buenos Aires tuvo destacada actuación en las batallas de Cepeda y Pavón. Era hijo del teniente coronel Juan Estanislao del Campo, rango al cual él mismo alcanzaría.
Al estrenarse la ópera Fausto de Gounod, con libreto de Michel Carrié y J. Barbier, en el Teatro Colón, el 24 de agosto de 1866, Del Campo concurrió al estreno. Dicho estreno había recibido mucha atención de la gente: se publicaron resúmenes en los periódicos y se hicieron traducciones del libreto. Del Campo utiliza esta ópera como referente para un poema que es su obra más conocida y recordada: "Fausto, Impresiones del gaucho Anastasio el Pollo en la -
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Andrés Rivera
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Hugo Alconada Mon
Hugo Alconada Mon es abogado; magíster por la Universidad de Navarra, España; visiting scholar en la Universidad de Missouri; becario del Draper-Hills Program de la Universidad de Stanford; y becario Eisenhower.
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En enero de 2002 ingresó en el diario La Nación, y entre enero de 2005 y febrero de 2009 fue su corresponsal en los Estados Unidos. Sus notas y reportajes fueron publicados en medios de España, México, Estados Unidos, Brasil, Colombia, Perú, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela y Chile, entre otros países.
En la actualidad se desempeña como prosecretario de Redacción, abocado a investigaciones sobre corrupción, lavado de activos y fraude corporativo.
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Alejo Carpentier
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Alejo Carpentier Blagoobrasoff, an essayist, greatly influenced Latin American literature during its "boom" period.
Perhaps most important intellectual figure of the 20th century, this classically trained pianist and theorist of politics and literature produced avant-garde radio programming. Best known Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. With Havana, he strongly self-identified throughout his life. People jailed and exiled him, who lived for many -
Bartolomé Hidalgo
Bartolomé José Hidalgo fue un escritor oriental, iniciador, junto con Hilario Ascasubi, de la poesía gauchesca en el Río de la Plata.
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Huérfano temprano, vivió con su madre y hermanas en Montevideo y la pobreza de la ciudad colonial y su condición de hijo de hogar modesto lo marcaron, le hicieron sentir sus rigores. A los 18 años se enroló en el llamado Batallón de Partidarios de Montevideo, sirviendo a las órdenes de Francisco Antonio Maciel, en la batalla del Cardal. En el año 1811 se incorporó a la revolución emancipadora, confirmando su doble rol, tan común en esa época, de ser gente de milicia y de actividad personal. En Paysandú recibe a José Artigas, el «Jefe de los Orientales», quien en una carta lo trata afectuosamente y lo incorpora -
Juan Bautista Alberdi
Juan Bautista Alberdi fue un abogado, jurista, economista, político, estadista, diplomático, escritor y músico argentino, autor intelectual de la Constitución Argentina de 1853.
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Se vinculó a la llamada generación del '37 al unirse al Salón Literario, fundado por Marcos Sastre y frecuentado por Juan María Gutiérrez, José Mármol, Miguel Cané (padre) entre otros jóvenes, intelectuales que adhirieron a las ideas de la democracia liberal y se asumieron como continuadores de la obra de la Revolución de Mayo, propiciando una organización mixta del país como respuesta al enfrentamiento entre federales y unitarios. -
Libertad Demitrópulos
Libertad Demitrópulos fue una escritora argentina.
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Nació en el departamento jujeño de Ledesma en 1922. A los 18 años comenzó a ejercer como maestra de escuelas en Jujuy hasta 1940, cuando viajó a Buenos Aires para estudiar letras. En 1978 se publica una de sus novelas más importantes, La flor de hierro y, tres años más tarde, Río de las congojas. Contrajo matrimonio con el poeta Joaquín Giannuzzi en 1951.
Un año antes de su muerte, recibe el Premio Boris Vian por Río de las congojas. Falleció en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires el 19 de julio de 1998.
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Eduarda Mansilla
Eduarda Damasia Mansilla Ortiz de Rozas de García (1834–1892) was a noted Argentine writer. She was the sister of Lucio V. Mansilla and niece of Juan Manuel de Rosas. Her first novel under her own name was Pablo ou la via dans les pampas in 1869 (written in French and lauded by Victor Hugo). She also wrote of her visits to the United States and journalist works. It is one of the first argentine women to reach success in the literary field.
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Pierre Grimal
Admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1933, and receiving a third in the "Agrégation des lettres" in 1935, he was member of the French School at Rome (1935-1937) then taught Latin at a Rennes lycée. Then he was active as a professor of Roman civilization at the faculties of Caen and Bordeaux, and finally at the Sorbonne for thirty years.
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He published studies on the Roman civilization, of which many volumes to the "Que sais-je?" series, and translations of Latin classical authors (Cicero, Seneca the Younger, Tacitus, Plautus, Terence). On his retirement, he also published biographies and fictionalized histories (Mémoires d’Agrippine, le procès Néron), more intended for the general public.
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Rafael Obligado
Rafael Obligado (Buenos Aires, 27 de enero de 1851 - Mendoza, 8 de marzo de 1920) fue un escritor, poeta y académico argentino, padre del también poeta Carlos Obligado.
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Sus padres Luis Obligado y Saavedra y María Jacinta Ortiz Urién eran de la clase patricia, y le brindaron excelente educación. Cursó estudios en el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. Inició estudios en la Facultad de Derecho, pero los abandonó rápidamente. Su vocación lo llevó al estudio de los clásicos, antiguos y españoles.
Conocido como "el poeta del Paraná" y perteneciente a la generación de 1880, escribió poesía con temática "gauchesca" pero con palabras "cultas", influido por la poesía francesa de fines del siglo XIX. Vivió en la estancia paterna, con un bellísimo castill -
Ulrich Schmidl
Ulrico Schmidl o Schmidel o Schmidt, (1510-1579/1580/1581), fue un soldado lansquenete, viajero y cronista de origen alemán, famoso por la publicación en 1567 de su Verídica descripción.
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Sus testimonios adquieren particular valor por provenir de un conquistador no español (que a su vez publica fuera de España) y en especial, por ser una de las primeras crónicas de los habitantes y territorios que él recorrió por muchos años; y que luego compondrían los actuales países de Argentina y el Paraguay. -
José Enrique Rodó
Uruguayan writer and politician.
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Rodó denounced pragmatic utilitarianism and Nordomania the Latin American attraction to North America.
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Roberto Fernández Retamar
Roberto Fernández Retamar was a poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also serves on the Council of State of Cuba. An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he has remained a central figure in Cuba since the 1959 Revolution. Fernández has also written over a dozen major collections of verse and founded the Casa de las Americas cultural magazine.
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Professor Joao Cesar Castro de Rocha, at the University of Manchester has described Retamar as "one of the most distinguished Latin American intellectuals of the twentieth century." In 1989, he was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and most important awa -
Ángel Rama
Ángel Rama fue un escritor uruguayo considerado uno de los principales ensayistas y críticos latinoamericanos. Su obra se refiere a literatura proveniente de prácticamente todas las regiones del continente americano así como de diferentes periodos históricos. Rama fue miembro de la llamada «Generación del 45» o «Generación crítica». Tres de sus libros de crítica literaria más importantes son Rubén Darío y el modernismo (1970), Transculturación narrativa en América Latina (1982), y La ciudad letrada (1984).
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