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Eduardo Gutiérrez

Eduardo Gutiérrez fue un escritor argentino que se destacó por sus obras de contenido histórico costumbrista y gauchesco.

Su novela más imortante fue Juan Moreira que fue escrita en el año 1880. Esta obra adquirió gran popularidad y fue llevada al circo criollo, el teatro, el cine y la historieta.

Entre sus otros libros notables figuran Hormiga Negra, Santos Vega y Juan Cuello.

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Juana Manso

Juana Paula Manso was an Argentine writer, translator, journalist, teacher and feminist who advocated for better educational reform and better educational accessibility for women.

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Ricardo Piglia

Ricardo Piglia was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.
Born in Adrogué, Piglia was raised in Mar del Plata. He studied history in 1961-1962 at the National University of La Plata.
Ricardo Piglia published his first collection of fiction in 1967, La invasión. He worked in various publishing houses in Buenos Aires and was in charge of the Serie Negra which published well-known authors of crime fiction including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, David Goodis and Horace McCoy. A fan of American literature, he was also influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, as well as by European authors Franz Kafka and Robert Musil.
Piglia's fiction includes sev

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Virginia Woolf

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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Alejo Carpentier

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).

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

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Juan Rulfo

Juan Perez Rulfo

Juan Rulfo nació el 16 de mayo de 1917 Él sostuvo que esto ocurrió en la casa familiar de Apulco, Jalisco, aunque fue registrado en la ciudad de Sayula, donde se conserva su acta de nacimiento. Vivió en la pequeña población de San Gabriel, pero las tempranas muertes de su padre, primero (1923), y de su madre poco después (1927), obligaron a sus familiares a inscribirlo en un internado en Guadalajara, la capital del estado de Jalisco.

Durante sus años en San Gabriel entró en contacto con la biblioteca de un cura (básicamente literaria), depositada en la casa familiar, y recordará siempre estas lecturas, esenciales en su formación literaria. Algunos acostumbran destacar su temprana orfandad como determinante en su vocación artí

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Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in the medieval centre of Bilbao, Basque Country, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo. As a young man, he was interested in the Basque language, and competed for a teaching position in the Instituto de Bilbao, against Sabino Arana. The contest was finally won by the Basque scholar Resurrección María de Azcue.

Unamuno worked in all major genres: the essay, the novel, poetry and theatre, and, as a modernist, contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries between genres. There is some debate as to whether Unamuno was in fact a member of the Generation of '98 (an ex post facto literary group of Spanish intellectuals and philosophers that was the creation of José Martínez Ruiz — a group that includes An

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Mariano Azuela

Mariano Azuela González was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism.

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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.
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).

She has been awar

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César Aira

César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He taught at the University of Buenos Aires (about Copi and Rimbaud) and at the University of Rosario (Constructivism and Mallarmé), and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. Perhaps one of the most prolific writers in Argentina, and certainly one of the most talked about in Latin America, Aira has published more than eighty books to date in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain, which have been translated for France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Romania, Russia, and now the United States. One novel, La prueba, has been made into a fe

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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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Ricardo Güiraldes

Ricardo Güiraldes (Buenos Aires, 13 de febrero de 1886 - París, 8 de octubre de 1927) fue un novelista y poeta argentino.

Su niñez y juventud se repartieron entre San Antonio de Areco y Buenos Aires. Fue en San Antonio donde se puso en contacto con la vida campestre y de los gauchos, reuniendo experiencias que habría de utilizar años más tarde en Raucho y en Don Segundo Sombra. Fue allí donde conoció a Segundo Ramírez, un gaucho de raza, en el que se inspiró para dar forma a la figura de Don Segundo Sombra.

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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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Hernández, whose ancestry was a mix of Spanish, Irish, and French, was born on a farm near San Martín (Buenos Aires Province). His father was a butler or foreman of a series of cattle ranches. His career was to be an alternation between stints on the Federal side in the civil wars of Argentina and Uruguay and life as a newspaperman, a short stint as an employee of a commercial firm, and a period as stenographer to the legislature of the Confederation.
Hernán

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William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. His works include Green Mansions (1904).

Argentines consider him to belong to their national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing natural and human dramas on then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He settled in England during 1874. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888-1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including

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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

Eugenio Cambaceres was an Argentine writer and politician. In the 1880s he wrote four books, with Sin rumbo being his masterpiece. His promising literary career was cut short when he died of tuberculosis.

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Eduardo Gutiérrez

Eduardo Gutiérrez fue un escritor argentino que se destacó por sus obras de contenido histórico costumbrista y gauchesco.

Su novela más imortante fue Juan Moreira que fue escrita en el año 1880. Esta obra adquirió gran popularidad y fue llevada al circo criollo, el teatro, el cine y la historieta.

Entre sus otros libros notables figuran Hormiga Negra, Santos Vega y Juan Cuello.

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Vicente Fidel López

Vicente Fidel López (April 24, 1815 in Buenos Aires – August 30, 1903) was an Argentine historian, lawyer and politician. He was the son of writer and politician Vicente López y Planes.

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Sara Gallardo

Sara Gallardo Drago Mitre (*Buenos Aires, 23 de diciembre de 1931-†14 de junio de 1988) fue una escritora argentina de la generación de narradoras y poetas de la década del 50-60, durante el boom de la literatura latinoamericana, junto a colegas coterráneas como Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch, Beatriz Guido, Luisa Mercedes Levinson, Norah Lange, Alejandra Pizarnik, Elvira Orphée y Silvina Ocampo. Su novela Eisejuaz es un ejemplo del temprano realismo mágico sudamericano.

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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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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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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.

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

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Libertad Demitrópulos

Libertad Demitrópulos fue una escritora argentina.

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.

Es reconocida por su fervorosa militancia peronista; trabajó en el hogar escuela Eva Perón, donde conoció a Evita, cuya biografía publicó en 1984.

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E.T.A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.

Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major author

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Salomé Esper

Salomé Esper was born in Jujuy in 1984. She is a writer and editor. She studied Social Communication at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and has a specialty in Editorial Design from Edinba (Mexico). She has published two books of poetry: sobre todo (Intravenosa, 2010) and paisaje (Tres tercios, 2014). She currently edits Sencacional de escrituras and is the editorial coordinator at 17, Institute of Critical Studies.

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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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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.

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

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Eduarda Mansilla

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