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  Leopoldo Alas

  Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. He died in Oviedo.
  
  Alas spent his childhood living in León and Guadalajara, until he moved to Oviedo in 1863. There he studied for the Bachillerato (B.A. degree) and began his law studies. He lived in Madrid from 1871 to 1878, where he began his career as a journalist (adopting the pen-name "Clarín" in 1875) and he graduated with the thesis El Derecho y la Moralidad (Law and Morality) in 1878. He taught in Zaragoza from 1882 to 1883. In 1883 he returned to Oviedo to take up a position as professor of Roman law.
  
  Above all, Clarín is the author of La Regenta, his masterpiece and one of the best novels of the 19th cen

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  Juan Valera

  Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish realist author, writer and political figure.
  He was born at Cabra, in the province of Córdoba, and was educated at Málaga and at the University of Granada, where he took his degree in law, and then entered upon a diplomatic career (1847). Over the next five decades, Valera filled a number of positions in a variety of various places. He accompanied the Spanish Ambassador to Naples. Afterwards, he was a member of the Spanish legations at Lisbon (1850), Rio de Janeiro (1851–53), Dresden and St. Petersburg (1854–57). After his return to Madrid, he became one of the editors of the liberal journal El Contemporáneo (1859), and was appointed Minister to Frankfurt (1865). After the revolution of 1868 he was

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  José de Espronceda

  José Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnación de Espronceda y Delgado fue un poeta español de la época del Romanticismo, considerado como el más destacado poeta romántico español.
  Nació en Almendralejo en la Provincia de Badajoz en 1808. Estudió en el colegio de San Mateo de Madrid, donde tuvo como profesor a Alberto Lista, a quien siguió en el colegio fundado por el mismo. A los quince años creó con sus amigos Ventura de la Vega, y Patricio de la Escosura una sociedad secreta a la que llamaron los Numantinos (1823-1825), según decían, para vengar la muerte de Rafael del Riego. En 1823 funda junto a otros alumnos de Alberto Lista la academia del Mirto, para continuar con las enseñanzas del clausurado colegio que Lista fundara (colegio libre de San M

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  Ana María Matute

  (Barcelona, 1925-2014) Escritora española. Novelista destacada de la llamada generación de los "niños asombrados", su obra describe el ambiente de la posguerra civil. Ana María Matute se dio a conocer en la escena literaria española con Los Abel (1948), una novela inspirada en la historia bíblica de los hijos de Adán y Eva, en la cual reflejó la atmósfera española inmediatamente posterior a la contienda civil desde el punto de vista de la percepción infantil. Este enfoque se mantuvo constante a lo largo de su primera producción novelística y fue común a otros representantes de su generación.
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  Leandro Fernández de Moratín

  Moratín was born in Madrid the son of Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, a major literary reformer in Spain from 1762 until his death in 1780.
  
  Distrusting the teaching offered in Spain's universities at the time, Leandro grew up in the rich literary environment of his father and became an admirer of Enlightenment thought. In addition to translating works of Molière and William Shakespeare into Spanish, he himself was a major poet, dramatist and man of letters whose writings promoted the reformist ideas associated with the Spanish Enlightenment. Early in his career, he was supported by statesman and author Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who, in 1787, arranged for him to study for a year in Paris. In 1792, the Spanish government provided the funds f

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  Giles Tremlett

  Giles Tremlett is the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent. He has lived in, and written about, Spain for the past twenty years.

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  Juan Goytisolo

  Desde la trilogía formada por Señas de identidad, Don Julián y Juan sin tierra, que le situó entre los mejores autores de la literatura española contemporánea, la obra narrativa de Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona, 1931) ha derivado en cada nueva singladura hacia territorios inexplorados que cuestionan siempre el género de la ficción. Esta voluntad de ir a contracorriente ha propiciado la gestación de textos tan singulares como Makbara (1980), Las virtudes del pájaro solitario (1988), La cuarentena (1991), La saga de los Marx (1993), El sitio de los sitios (1995), Las semanas del jardín (1997), Carajicomedia (2000), Telón de boca (2003) o El exiliado de aquí y allá (2008).
  
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  Mariano José de Larra

  Mariano José de Larra (24 March 1809 – 13 February 1837) was a Spanish romantic writer best known for his numerous essays, as well as his infamous suicide. Larra's works were often satirical and critical of nineteenth-century Spanish society, and focused on both the politics and customs of his time.

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  María Amparo Escandón

  María Amparo Escandón is a Mexican born, US resident, best-selling bilingual novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film producer. Her award-winning work is known for addressing bicultural themes that deal with the immigration experience of Mexicans crossing over to the United States. Her stories concentrate on family relationships, loss, forgiveness, faith, and self-discovery. A linguist with a sharp ear for dialogue, she explores the dynamics of language in border sub-cultures and the evolution of Spanglish. Her innovative style of multiple voice narrations and her cleverly humorous, quirky, and compassionate stories with a feminine angle capture the magical reality of everyday life and place her among the top Latin American fema

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  Don Paterson

  Don Paterson (b. 1963) is a Scottish poet and writer. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, aphorism, criticism, memoir and poetic theory. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, three Forward Prizes, the T.S. Eliot Prize on two occasions, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
  
  He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of St. Andrews, and for twenty-five years was Poetry Editor at Picador MacMillan. He has long had a parallel career as a jazz guitarist.
  
  He lives in Kirriemuir, Angus.

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  Rick Bass

  Rick Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in Houston, the son of a geologist. He studied petroleum geology at Utah State University and while working as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi, began writing short stories on his lunch breaks. In 1987, he moved with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Hughes Bass, to Montana’s remote Yaak Valley and became an active environmentalist, working to protect his adopted home from the destructive encroachment of roads and logging. He serves on the board of both the Yaak Valley Forest Council and Round River Conservation Studies and continues to live with his family on a ranch in Montana, actively engaged in saving the American wilderness.
  
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  Valeria Vegas

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  Julia de Burgos

  Julia de Burgos (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) is considered by many as the greatest poet to have been born in Puerto Rico, and along with Gabriela Mistral, is considered as one of the greatest poets of Latin America. She was also an advocate for the independence of Puerto Rico and an ardent civil rights activist for women and African/Afro-Caribbean writers.

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  Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

  Ramón del Valle-Inclán was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in a rural village in Galicia, Spain. Obedient to his father’s wishes, he studied law in Compostela, but after his father’s death in 1889 he moved to Madrid to work as a journalist and critic. In 1892 Valle-Inclán traveled to Mexico, where he remained for more than a year. His first book of stories came out in Spain in 1895. A well-known figure in the cafés of Madrid, famous for his spindly frame, cutting wit, long hair, longer beard, black cape, and single arm (the other having been lost after a fight with a critic), Valle-Inclán was celebrated as the author of Sonatas: The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín, which was published in 1904 and is considered the finest no

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  Irene Vallejo

  Irene Vallejo Moreu (Zaragoza, 1979) estudió Filología Clásica y obtuvo el doctorado europeo por las universidades de Zaragoza y Florencia. En la actualidad lleva a cabo una intensa labor de divulgación del mundo clásico impartiendo conferencias y a través de su columna semanal en el diario Heraldo de Aragón. De su obra literaria destacan las novelas La luz sepultada (2011) y El silbido del arquero (2015), la antología periodística Alguien habló de nosotros (2017) y los libros infantiles El inventor de viajes (2014) y La leyenda de las mareas mansas (2015).

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  Leopoldo Alas

  Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. He died in Oviedo.
  
  Alas spent his childhood living in León and Guadalajara, until he moved to Oviedo in 1863. There he studied for the Bachillerato (B.A. degree) and began his law studies. He lived in Madrid from 1871 to 1878, where he began his career as a journalist (adopting the pen-name "Clarín" in 1875) and he graduated with the thesis El Derecho y la Moralidad (Law and Morality) in 1878. He taught in Zaragoza from 1882 to 1883. In 1883 he returned to Oviedo to take up a position as professor of Roman law.
  
  Above all, Clarín is the author of La Regenta, his masterpiece and one of the best novels of the 19th cen

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  María de Lourdes Victoria

  (ENGLISH BELOW) Oriunda de Veracruz, México, María de Lourdes Victoria es una autora bilingüe cuyas obras han sido galardonadas y publicadas en varios países de Latinoamérica. Su última novela, La Casa de los Secretos (Planeta, 2016), recibió el segundo lugar como la mejor novela histórica en Español en la Feria Internacional de Libros Latinos (Latino Book Awards, 2017). Su segunda novela, Más Allá de la Justicia ocupó el tercer lugar en Barcelona, España, en el prestigioso Premio Planeta de Novela (2012). Su primera novela, Les Dejo el Mar (Ediciones B, 2006) fue finalista del Premio Mariposa. Los cuentos breves de María aparecen en revistas literarias y jurídicas de renombre, y sus cuentos infantiles, bilingües, han sido premiados. María

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  Kim Richardson

  Kim Richardson is the award-winning author of the bestselling SOUL GUARDIANS series. She lives in the eastern part of Canada with her husband, two dogs and a very old cat. She is the author of the SOUL GUARDIANS series, the MYSTICS series, and the DIVIDED REALMS series. Kim's books are available in print editions, and translations are available in over 7 languages.
  
  

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  Juan Ruiz de Alarcón

  Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza of the greatest Novohispanic dramatists of the Golden Age, was born in New Spain (modern México).
  Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was born about 1581 at Real de Taxco, New Spain, where his father was superintendent of mines; his mother was descended from one of Spain’s most illustrious families, the Mendozas. He was small of stature and suffered from hunchbackedness. Besides, his red haired complexion made him an occasional object of scorn, since some sectors of the conservative catholic society in which he later lived held the prejudice that Judas Iscariot was a redhead himself. Because of this, his critics often ridiculed his appearance rather than his works.
  He went to Spain in 1600, where he studied law at the Universi

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  Pío Baroja

  Pío Baroja y Nessi (1872-1956) nació en San Sebastián y vivió durante casi toda su vida en Madrid, donde estudió Medicina. Su ejercicio como médico fue breve, en Cestona. Volvió a Madrid, donde entró en contacto con Azorín y Maeztu, que le llevaron a entregarse a la literatura, su gran vocación.
  Publicó sus primeros libros en 1900 tras una serie de colaboraciones en diarios y revistas. Siguió una etapa de intensa labor que conjugó con viajes por España y Europa. En 1911 publicó El árbol de la ciencia. Hasta entonces había publicado ya, además de cuentos, artículos y ensayos, diecisiete novelas que constituyen lo más importante de su producción. Su fama se consolidó y su vida se consagró a escribir, volviéndose cada vez más sedentaria. En 193

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  Marina Mayoral

  Novelista e investigadora. Catedrática de Literatura Española por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Entre el centenar de trabajos de investigación que ha realizado sobre diversos autores y épocas destacan sus estudios sobre Rosalía de Castro y Emilia Pardo Bazán y los análisis de poesía y prosa contemporáneas.
  
  Escribe en gallego y en castellano y algunas de sus novelas han sido traducidas al alemán, italiano, portugués, polaco y chino. Sus cuentos se encuentran en las mejores antologías en lengua española y también en antologías de lengua inglesa y alemana.

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  Pedro Calderón de la Barca

  Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.
  
  Calderón initiated what has been called the second cycle of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Whereas his predecessor, Lope de Vega, pioneered the dramatic forms and genres of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Calderón polished and perfected them. Whereas Lope's strength lay in the sponteneity and naturalness of his work, Calderón's strength lay in his capacity for poetic beauty, dramatic structure and philosophical depth. Calderón was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays, even long after they debuted. This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: many of his plays rework existing plays or scenes by other dramatists, improving their depth, comp

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  Roberto Bolaño

  For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher, a campground custodian, bellhop and garbage collector — working during the day and writing at night.
  
  He continued with his poetry, before shifting to fiction in his early forties. In an interview Bolaño stated that he made this decision because he felt responsible for the future financial well-being of his family, which he knew he could never secure from the earnings of a poet. This was confirmed by Jorge Herralde, who explained that Bolaño "aband

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  Jesús Moncada

  Jesús Moncada i Estruga fou un escriptor en llengua catalana nascut a Mequinensa (Baix Cinca) el 1941 i mort a Barcelona el 13 de juny de 2005. La població de la Franja d'Aragó, on va viure fins a la seva desaparició anegada per l'embassament de Riba-roja d'Ebre, és l'escenari principal de la seva obra literària.
  
  Se'l considera un dels autors en català més importants de la seva època i va rebre premis per la seva obra, entre d'altres el Premi Ciutat de Barcelona o el Premio de la Crítica el 1988 per Camí de sirga o la Creu de Sant Jordi, atorgada per la Generalitat de Catalunya l'any 2001. El 2004 va rebre el Premio de las Letras Aragonesas i a títol pòstum fou considerat fill predilecte de Mequinensa.
  
  Jesús Moncada fou un dels autors més tra

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  Carmen Martín Gaite

  Carmen Martín Gaite (Salamanca 1925-Madrid 2000) se licenció en Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Salamanca, donde conoció a Ignacio Aldecoa y a Agustín García Calvo. En esa universidad tuvo además su primer contacto con el teatro participando como actriz en varias obras.
  Se trasladó a Madrid en 1950 y se doctoró en la Universidad de Madrid con la tesis Usos amorosos del XVIII en España. Ignacio Aldecoa, cuya obra estudiaría posteriormente, la introdujo en su círculo literario, donde conoció a Josefina Aldecoa, Alfonso Sastre, Juan Benet, Medardo Fraile, Jesús Fernández Santos y Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, con quien se casó en 1954. De esta manera se incluyó en la que sería conocida como la Generación del 55 o Generación de la Posguerra.

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  Ana María Matute

  (Barcelona, 1925-2014) Escritora española. Novelista destacada de la llamada generación de los "niños asombrados", su obra describe el ambiente de la posguerra civil. Ana María Matute se dio a conocer en la escena literaria española con Los Abel (1948), una novela inspirada en la historia bíblica de los hijos de Adán y Eva, en la cual reflejó la atmósfera española inmediatamente posterior a la contienda civil desde el punto de vista de la percepción infantil. Este enfoque se mantuvo constante a lo largo de su primera producción novelística y fue común a otros representantes de su generación.
  Las novelas de Ana María Matute no están exentas de compromiso social, si bien es cierto que no se adscriben explícitamente a ninguna ideología política

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  Lope de Vega

  Lope de Vega was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish letters is second only to that of Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequaled: he is estimated to have written up to 1,500 three-act plays – of which some 425 have survived until the modern day – together with a plethora of shorter dramatic and poetic works.

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  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 – January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director.
  
  Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is also known for his political activities.
  
  He finished studying law, but hardly practised. He divided his time between politics, literature. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
  
  His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (translated as either The Town or The People) in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it

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  Manuel Vicent

  Valencian writer and journalist. Two of his novels, Tranvía a la Malvarrosa and Son de mar, have been adapted to the big screen.

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  Benito Pérez Galdós

  People know Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós especially for his Episodios Nacionales (1873-1912), a series of 46 historical novels.
  
  Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th century Spain.
  
  Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and galdosistas (Galdós researchers) considered him Spain's equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. As recently as 1950, few of his works were available translated to English, although he has slow

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  Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
  Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Joh

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  Miguel Delibes

  Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
  He was a connoisseur of the flora and fauna of Castile and was passionate about hunting and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world.
  He was one of the leading figures of post-Civil War

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  Edith Wharton

  Edith Wharton emerged as one of America’s most insightful novelists, deftly exposing the tensions between societal expectation and personal desire through her vivid portrayals of upper-class life. Drawing from her deep familiarity with New York’s privileged “aristocracy,” she offered readers a keenly observed and piercingly honest vision of Gilded Age society.
  Her work reached a milestone when she became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded for The Age of Innocence. This novel highlights the constraining rituals of 1870s New York society and remains a defining portrait of elegance laced with regret.
  Wharton’s literary achievements span a wide canvas. The House of Mirth presents a tragic, vividly drawn character s

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  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 – January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director.
  
  Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is also known for his political activities.
  
  He finished studying law, but hardly practised. He divided his time between politics, literature. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
  
  His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (translated as either The Town or The People) in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it

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  Emil Ludwig

  Emil Ludwig (originally named Emil Cohn) was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novella, but also worked as a journalist. In 1906, he moved to Switzerland, but, during World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul. He became a Swiss citizen in 1932, later emigrating to the United States in 1940.
  
  At the end of the Second World War, he went to Germany as a journalist, and it is to him that we owe the retrieving of Goethe's and Schiller's coffins, which had disappeared from Weimar in 1943/44. He returned to Switzerland after the war and died in 1948, in Moscia, near Ascona.
  
  During the 1920s, he achieved internatio

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  Miguel Delibes

  Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
  He was a connoisseur of the flora and fauna of Castile and was passionate about hunting and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world.
  He was one of the leading figures of post-Civil War

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  Benito Pérez Galdós

  People know Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós especially for his Episodios Nacionales (1873-1912), a series of 46 historical novels.
  
  Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th century Spain.
  
  Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and galdosistas (Galdós researchers) considered him Spain's equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. As recently as 1950, few of his works were available translated to English, although he has slow

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  Marqués de Sade

  See Marquis de Sade
  

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  Carmen de Burgos

  María del Carmen Ramona Loreta de Burgos y Seguí (pseudonyms, Colombine, Gabriel Luna, Perico el de los Palotes, Raquel, Honorine and Marianela) was a Spanish journalist, writer, translator and women's rights activist. Johnson describes her as a "modern" if not "modernist" writer. She was a partner of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
  
  (Wikipedia)

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  André Kertész

  André Kertész (French: [kɛʁtɛs]; 2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.[

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  Antonio Iturbe

  Antonio González Iturbe is a Spanish journalist, writer and professor. He is the director of the cultural magazine Librújula.

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  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.
  
  It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.
  
  In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. He was then rele

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  Joan Puig i Ferreter

  Joan Puig i Ferreter va néixer a La Selva del Camp el 5 de febrer de l'any 1882. Fill il·legítim d'un ric terratinent, va passar la infantesa i l'adolescència a Reus amb la seva mare a casa d'uns oncles. El seu pare mai va reconèixer-lo com a legítim. Als quinze anys, quan estudiava batxillerat a Reus, va entrar a formar part del Grup modernista de Reus. Faria amistat amb Josep Aladern, Hortensi Güell, Antoni Isern i Plàcid Vidal.
  

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  Ann Claycomb

  Silenced, a #MeToo fairytale, is now available for purchase! This book tells the story of four women coworkers who have all been assaulted by their CEO and join forces to break the fairy tale curses he has put on them to keep them quiet.
  
  Ann Claycomb's first novel, The Mermaid’s Daughter, published by Harper Collins in 2017, imagines that the Little Mermaid really is trapped as a human and passes that curse down through generations of women unable to return to the sea.
  
  An inveterate reader of fairy tales, Ann believes in the power of Faerie, chocolate, and a good workout, in no particular order. She also wishes people would stop using the phrase “fairy tales can come true” as reassurance, because a great deal of what happens in fairy tales,

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  Jude Morgan

  Jude Morgan was born and brought up in Peterborough on the edge of the Fens and was a student on the University of East Anglia MA Course in Creative Writing under Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.
  
  A pseudonym used by Tim Wilson.
  
  Also wrote under the names T.R. Wilson and Hannah March.

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  Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

  Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a 19th century Spanish novelist, author of the novel El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat, 1874). The story is an adaptation of a popular tradition and provides a lively picture of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897) and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).
  Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, El capitán Veneno ('Captain Poison', 1881). He produced four other full-length novels. One of these novels, El escándalo ('The Scandal', 1875), became noted for its keen psychological insights. Alarcón also wrote three travel books and many short stories and essays.
  Alarcón was born in Guadix, near Gra

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  Kiyoko Murata

  En 1975, elle reçoit le prix du festival des arts de Kyushu pour « La voix de l’eau » ce qui l’encouragea fortement dans sa carrière littéraire. Son ouvrage « Le Chaudron » l’a ensuite rendue célèbre grâce à l’adaptation qu’en fit KUROSAWA Akira pour son film « Rhapsodie en août » sorti en 1991.
  
  

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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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  Hernán Cortés

  Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485–1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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  Espido Freire

  María Laura Espido Freire (her pen name is just her surnames Espido Freire) is a writer born in Bilbao, Spain on July 16, 1974.
  
  Espido Freire dedicated her early years to the study and performance of classical music. She received a degree in English philology from the University of Deusto, where she also studied for a master's degree in editing.
  She made her literary debut with the novel Irlanda in 1998. It has been translated into several languages. The French version of the novel, translated by Eva Calveyra, won the Millepage Prize in France. As of 2007, an English translation of Irlanda is underway. The first chapter appeared in The Violet Issue of [Fairy Tale Review], edited by Kate Bernheimer. Another excerpt from the novel was published

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  María Reimóndez

  María Reimóndez Meilán was born in Lugo and is a professional translator and interpreter. Her first book published is the poetry collection Moda Galega (Edicións Positivas, 2002). In 2003 she was awarded the Premio de Novela Mulleres Progresistas de Vigo for the novel O Caderno de Bitácora (Edicións Positivas 2004). In 2005 she was short-listed for the awards Premio Merlín de Literatura Infantil for Usha (Edicións Xerais, 2006) and Xerais for O club da calceta (Xerais 2006), which was later awarded the Premio San Clemente and translated into Italian and Spanish, adapted to theatre by Teatro do Morcego and to film by Ficción Producciones.
  
  She has also published six books for children on different Galician counties with Editorial Everest. Rece

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  Manuel Chaves Nogales

  Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) nació en Sevilla. Se inició muy joven en el oficio de periodista, primero en su ciudad natal y más tarde en Madrid. Entre 1927 y 1937, Chaves Nogales alcanzó su cénit profesional escribiendo reportajes para los principales periódicos de la época, y ejerciendo, desde 1931, como director de Ahora, diario afín a Manuel Azaña de quien Chaves era reconocido partidario.
  Al estallar la guerra civil se pone al servicio de la República y sigue trabajando como periodista hasta que el gobierno abandona definitivamente Madrid, momento en el que decide exiliarse en Francia. La llegada de los nazis, que describiría magistralmente en el ensayo La agonía de Francia, le obligó a huir a Londres, donde falleció a los 47 años.

  A

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  Hélène Bessette

  Hélène Bessette est née « obscurément » à Levallois, faubourg de Paris, le 31 août 1918. Lorsqu’un journaliste lui demande pourquoi « obscurément », elle répond : « Parce que ce terme me plaît, et que les détails ne regardent personne ». Elle peut être considérée comme l’une des pionnières du Nouveau roman.
  
  C’est après un voyage en Nouvelle-Calédonie où elle est partie trois ans avec son mari pasteur qu’elle se met à écrire. Elle n’a que trente-cinq ans quand Raymond Queneau la rencontre le jeudi 4 décembre 1952 dans les bureaux du 5, rue Sébastien Bottin, et lui fait signer un contrat qui l’engage chez Gallimard pour dix livres à venir. « Enfin du nouveau ! », s’exclame-t-il, soucieux de faire connaître celle qu’il considère comme un écriva

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  Cao Yu

  Cao Yu (曹禺; September 24, 1910—December 13, 1996), born as Wan Jiabao (萬家寶/万家宝), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century. His most well-known works are Thunderstorm (1933), Sunrise (1936) and Peking Man (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that the modern Chinese "spoken theater" took root in 20th-century Chinese literature.

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  Innocent Chizaram Ilo

  Innocent Chizaram Ilo is an Igbo author. They live in Lagos.
  
  They won the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (African Region), and the 2021 Nommo Short Story prize.

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  Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

  Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (pen name La Peregrina) came from a noble background; her father, Manuel Gómez de Avellaneda, was a descendent of the royal family of Navarre and aristocracy of Vizcaya of Spain, and also a commander of the Spanish navy in charge of the central regions of Cuba. Her mother, Francisca de Arteaga y Betancourt, was also from a wealthy Spanish family that had lived in Puerto Príncipe. It is said that her mother’s family is the one that inspired the family in her first novel, Sab.
  
  At the age of nine, her father died and her mother remarried ten months later to don Isidoro de Escalada, who was also a Spanish officer in Cuba. At 22, in 1836, she left Cuba with her family for A Coruña, Spain. Soon after, she an

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  Ai Weiwei

  Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, English pronunciation; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile.

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  José Luis Martín Vigil

  Nació el 28 de octubre de 1919 en Oviedo, en el seno de una familia acomodada. Cursó estudios de Ingeniería Naval, Humanidades y Teología tras realizar el bachillerato en el Colegio Superior de los Padres Jesuitas. Durante la Guerra Civil, se pasó a la zona nacional. En 1953 fue ordenado sacerdote de la Compañía de Jesús.
  
  Fue capellán de varios colegios mayores y el director de organizaciones católicas en la universidad.
  
  Tras publicar varios libros de tema religioso, a principios de los sesenta y con un éxito editorial sin precedentes, abandonó definitivamente la Orden. Apareció regularmente en programas divulgativos y Televisión Española le ofreció, dentro de uno de sus clásicos programas de interés cultural, una serie de espacios analizando

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  Elizabeth Caroline Grey

  Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798-1869), aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and Penny Dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867. There is some controversy about the details of her life story, and if she actually authored any penny dreadfuls.

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  Miquel Llor

  Miquel Llor (Barcelona, 1894 - 1966). Novel·lista, contista i traductor. La seva prosa, molt elaborada, fa patent la influència de Joyce, Proust, Svevo, Dostoievski i Freud, i és essencial per entendre la recuperació i l'evolució del gènere novel·lístic en la literatura catalana del segle XX, que havia estat minimitzat per moviments com el Noucentisme. Llor es va consagrar amb Laura a la ciutat dels sants (1931), premi Joan Crexells 1930, novel·la on descriu amb profunditat l'atmosfera d'una ciutat hostil al comportament de la protagonista femenina, i que permet a l'autor efectuar una anàlisi pròxima al realisme psicològic. Va treballar durant molts anys a la secció de cultura de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona com a responsable de la correcció o

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  Marina Mayoral

  Novelista e investigadora. Catedrática de Literatura Española por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Entre el centenar de trabajos de investigación que ha realizado sobre diversos autores y épocas destacan sus estudios sobre Rosalía de Castro y Emilia Pardo Bazán y los análisis de poesía y prosa contemporáneas.
  
  Escribe en gallego y en castellano y algunas de sus novelas han sido traducidas al alemán, italiano, portugués, polaco y chino. Sus cuentos se encuentran en las mejores antologías en lengua española y también en antologías de lengua inglesa y alemana.

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  Nancy Morejón

  Nancy Morejón (Havana, 1944- ) is a Cuban poet, critic, essayist.
  
  She graduated with honors at the University of Havana, having studied Caribbean and French Literature, and she is fluent in French and English. She later taught French. She is a well-regarded translator of French and English into Spanish, particularly Caribbean writers, including Edouard Glissant, Jacques Roumain and Aimé Césaire, René Depestre. Her own poetry has been translated into English, German, French, Portuguese, Gallego, Russian, Macedonian, and others. She is as of 2013 director of Revista Union, journal of the UNEAC, Union of Writers and Artists; in 2008 she was elected president of the writer's section of Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC).
  
  She has produ

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  Vladimir K. Arsenyev

  Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev (Russian: Влади́мир Кла́вдиевич Арсе́ньев) (10 September 1872 – 4 September 1930) was a Russian explorer of the Far East who recounted his travels in a series of books - "По Уссурийскому Краю" ("Along the Ussury land") (1921) and "Дерсу Узала" ("Dersu Uzala") (1923) - telling of his military journeys to the Ussuri basin with Dersu Uzala, a native hunter, from 1902 to 1907. He was the first to describe numerous species of Siberian flora and lifestyle of native ethnic people.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir...

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  Harriet Martineau

  Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876) was an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist. Martineau has also been called the first female sociologist and the first female journalist in England.
  
  Comprehensive list of her works with links to digitized versions here.

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  Suso de Toro

  Xesús Miguel de Toro Santos, máis coñecido como Suso de Toro, nado en Santiago de Compostela o 10 de xaneiro de 1956, é un escritor galego.
  
  O seu pai é de Formariz (provincia de Zamora) e a súa nai de Falapaso (Camboño, Lousame). Seu irmán, Xelís de Toro, tamén é escritor.
  
  É Licenciado en Arte Moderna e Contemporánea pola Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. É guionista para televisión e colaborador habitual na prensa e na radio, publicou en galego máis de vinte libros de narrativa, teatro e ensaio. A súa obra, ademais de ser traducida a varias linguas, foi obxecto de estudo en diversas universidades europeas.
  
  En abril de 2010 anunciou a súa retirada como escritor profesional, retomando a súa carreira de profesor de secundaria.
  
  Nas Eleccións

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  Ramón Pérez de Ayala

  Ramón Pérez de Ayala y Fernández nació en Oviedo el 9 de agosto de 1880. Era hijo de don Cirilo Pérez de Ayala, oriundo de Tierra de Campos (Valdenebro de los Valles en Valladolid), y de doña Carmen Fernández Viña o Doña Luisa Fernández del Portal, de Asturias, concejo de Valdés-Luarca, su madre murió cuando él era pequeño. Fue bautizado en la iglesia de San Isidoro. A los nueve años ingresó en el colegio de jesuitas de San Zoil, en Carrión de los Céspedes, Palencia. Dos años más tarde pasó al colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción, en Gijón.
  Estudió Derecho en la Universidad de Oviedo bajo la protección de Leopoldo Alas, "Clarín". Allí entró en contacto con los pensadores del Krausismo, entre ellos Rafael Altamira, Posada. Le atraía tanto el R

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