Enrique Lihn
Enrique Lihn Carrasco was a Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist. The son of Enrique Lihn Doll and María Carrasco Délano, he married Ivette Mingram and they had one daughter: Andrea María Lihn Mingram, an actress.
Born in 1929 at Santiago, Chile, Lihn aspired to be a painter but after a failed attempt during university, he abandoned that dream to pursue writing. Lihn proceeded to develop into a poet, playwright, and novelist. He taught literature at the University of Chile. Lihn views both the past and the future as forms of death, and his emphasis on this point is evident throughout his literary works. His work revolved around his contempt for the contemporary dictatorship, as Chile was governed by a military junta. Works layered with soc
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José Martí
Born José Julián Martí y Pérez, he was a Cuban nationalist leader and an important figure in Latin American literature. During his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a professor, and a political theorist. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol for Cuba's bid for independence against Spain in the 19th century, and is referred to as El Apóstol; "Apostle of Cuban Independence". He also fought against the threat of United States expansionism into Cuba.
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Guillermo Martínez
Guillermo Martínez is an Argentinian novelist and short story writer. He gained a PhD in mathematical logic at the University of Buenos Aires.
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After his degree in Argentina, he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford.
His most successful novel has been The Oxford Murders, written in 2003. In the same year, he was awarded the Planeta Prize for this novel, which has been translated into a number of languages. -
Larry Clark
Larry Clark is an American photographer and filmmaker known for his raw and unfiltered depictions of youth culture. Often controversial, Clark’s black-and-white images unflinchingly capture overt sexuality, drug use, and violence, as seen in his iconic photobook Tulsa (1971) and his debut feature film Kids (1995). Clark is able to achieve a level of vulnerability and intimacy with his subjects. As he explains, “I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.”
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Born on January 19, 1943 in Tulsa, OK, Clark studied at a commercial photography school after working as an assistant to his mother, who worked as a portrait p -
Carlos Oquendo de Amat
Carlos Oquendo de Amat (April 17, 1905 – March 6, 1936) was a Peruvian poet born in Moho, generally recognized by his only book of poetry 5 Meters of Poems, first published on 1927, which is an accordion book or pop-up book which extends to approximately 5 meters in length when fully opened. In the words of Urayoán Noel "5 Meters of Poems is a joy to read, and a significant contribution to our understanding of Latin American vanguard poetry beyond such canonical figures as Neruda and Vallejo. Here’s hoping for many more meters!".
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Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean poet and physicist. He was considered one of the most influential poets in the Spanish language of the 20th century, often compared with Pablo Neruda.
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Pablo Katchadjian
Pablo Katchadjian es un escritor y poeta argentino nacido en Buenos Aires en 1977. Graduado en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Katchadjian ha dedicado su carrera a explorar formas innovadoras de escritura, desafiando las convenciones narrativas y expandiendo las posibilidades del lenguaje literario. Debido a eso, su obra es conocida por su creatividad y audacia, así como por su talante experimental y la capacidad para jugar con los límites de la literatura, abarcando poesía, narrativa breve y novelas.
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Entre sus trabajos más comentados hallamos El Aleph engordado (2009), obra que reescribe y amplía el célebre cuento de Jorge Luis Borges, añadiéndole palabras y párrafos a la vez que mantiene el texto original. Esta obra tuvo como ef -
Elicura Chihuailaf
Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpan (Quechurehue o Quechurewe, provincia de Cautín, Chile, 1952) es un escritor, poeta y oralitor mapuche, considerado uno de los más connotados poetas del Chile actual. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile en 2020.
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Su obra es principalmente bilingüe, en mapudungun y español. Su trabajo ha sido ampliamente premiado y reconocido. El carácter fundacional de su obra abrió las puertas para la eclosión de la poesía mapuche en clave moderna, escrita y bilingüe. De profesión obstetra y dedicado desde 1977 a la labor literaria y cultural, es considerado el más importante escritor y poeta mapuche. Su labor ha sido reconocida tanto en Chile como en el extranjero, por tender puentes interculturales entre los pueblos -
W.S. Graham
William Sydney Graham was a Scottish poet who was often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic group of poets. Graham's poetry was mostly overlooked in his lifetime; however, partly thanks to the support of Harold Pinter, his work was eventually acknowledged. He was represented in the second edition of the Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1962) and the Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (2001).
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Graham left school to become an apprentice draughtsman and then studied structural engineering at Stow College, Glasgow. He was awarded a bursary to study literature for a year at Newbattle Abbey College in 1938. Graham spent the war years working at a number of jobs in Scotland and Ireland before moving to Cornwall -
Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea (Viareggio Prize), Silk, City, Emmaus or Mr. Gwyn, among others.
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He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.
Baricco hosted the book program "Pickwick" for Rai Tre, which, according to Claudio Paglieri, "invited Italians to rediscover the pleasure of reading." In 1994, he founded a school of "writing techniques" in Turin called Holden (as a tribute to Salinger), which, under his direction, has been a resounding success. Si -
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
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It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h -
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.
In 1978, Perec won the prix Médicis for Life: A User's Manual (French title, La Vie mode d'emploi), possibly his best-known work. The 99 chapters of thi -
Juan Rulfo
Juan Perez Rulfo
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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 -
Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.
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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 -
Vicente Huidobro
Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism"), which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.
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Huidobro was born into a wealthy family in Santiago. After spending his first years in Europe, he enrolled in a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago where he was expelled for using a ring, which he claimed, was for marriage. He studied literature at the University of Chile and published "Ecos del alma" ( Soul's Echoes ) in 1911, a work with modernist tendencies. The following year he married, and started to edit the journal "Musa Joven" ( Young Muse ), where part of his -
Pedro Lemebel
Hijo de Pedro Mardones, panadero, y Violeta Lemebel, nació "literalmente en la orilla del Zanjón de la Aguada" y "vivió en medio del barro" hasta que, a mediados de los años sesenta, "su familia se mudó a un conjunto de viviendas sociales en avenida Departamental".
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Estudió en un liceo industrial donde se enseñaba forja de metal y mueblería y, después, en la Universidad de Chile, donde se tituló de profesor de Artes Plásticas. Trabajó en dos liceos, de los cuales fue despedido en 1983 "presumiblemente por su apariencia, ya que no hacía mucho esfuerzo por disimular su homosexualidad".
En sus libros aborda fundamentalmente la marginalidad chilena con algunas referencias autobiográficas. Su estilo irreverente, barroco y kitsch lo ha hecho conocid -
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.
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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 -
Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean poet and physicist. He was considered one of the most influential poets in the Spanish language of the 20th century, often compared with Pablo Neruda.
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Jorge Teillier
Nació en la ciudad de Lautaro el 24 de junio de 1935, el mismo día que murió Carlos Gardel. Estudió Historia y Geografía en la Universidad de Chile. Ejerció la docencia en el Liceo de Victoria. Perteneció al Grupo Trilce de la Universidad Austral de Valdivia. Fue director de la revista Orfeo y del Boletín de la Universidad de chile. Recibió los siguientes Premios: Gabriela Mistral, Municipal, Crav, Juegos Florales de la revista Paula, Premio Alerce de la SECH y el Premio Eduardo Anguita, concedido por la Editorial Universitaria al poeta vivo más importante de Chile y que no hubiese conseguido el Premio Nacional. También fue galardonado con el Premio Al Mejor Libro de Poesía 1993 establecido por el Consejo Nacional del Libro. Asimismo, ganó
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Raúl Zurita
Raúl Zurita was born in Santiago de Chile. In 1973 he was arrested by the Pinochet regime and imprisoned in the hold of a ship. He was a founder of the group Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), which undertook extremely risky public-art actions against the regime. In 1982 five airplanes wrote his poem “La Vida Nueva” in the sky above New York City, and in 1993 he had the phrase “NEITHER PAIN NOR FEAR” bulldozed into the Atacama Desert in a permanent, two-mile-long installation, visible only from above. Zurita received the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000 and the Asan Memorial World Poetry Prize in 2018.
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Francisco Ortega
Periodista, escritor, editor y guionista chileno que, como novelista, se convirtió en superventas con Logia (2014).Es profesor en las universidades Católica y Alberto Hurtado, donde imparte clases de literatura y edición.
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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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Gonzalo Millán
Para Gonzalo Millán la poesía fue una mezcla de lenguaje, tiempo y memoria: "Unos le ponen más memoria, otros más tiempo o más lenguaje, pero esos son los materiales primordiales. Sin saberlo, he trabajado desde siempre con ellos" ("La cultura en Chile sigue siendo la rueda de repuesto", El Periodista, 2 de junio, 2006, p. 32). Con apenas 21 años, publicó Relación personal (1968), por el que recibió el premio Pedro de Oña: "Los primeros poemas están escritos en ese contexto, de un adolescente que se empieza a sentir también al margen, a sentirse distinto, está insatisfecho con el mundo que encuentra, el Chile de los años 60" ("La poesía tiene que mutar". Calabaza del diablo, mayo, 2003, p. 14). Tres años antes había escrito Chumbeque, una n
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Han Kang
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소설가 한강
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.” -
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. -
Louise Glück
American poet Louise Elisabeth Glück served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004.
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Parents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University.
She was the author of twelve books of poetry, including: A Village Life (2009); Averno (2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award; The Seven Ages (2001); Vita Nova (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America; Ararat (1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Librar -
Layla Martínez
De ascendencia conquense, nació en 1987 en Madrid. Se licenció en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y posteriormente realizó un máster en Sexología en la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
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En 2012 publicó el libro de poemas El libro de la crueldad; en 2015 lanzó Las canciones de los durmientes. En el año 2018 ganó el III premio de la Facultad de poesía José Ángel Valente por su obra Cineraria.
En el 2020 publicó el ensayo Utopía no es una isla, que reflexiona sobre cómo la forma en la que la sociedad imagina el futuro está fuertemente asociada a los productos culturales que esta consume.
En 2021 publicó su novela Carcoma, que trata temas como la violencia de género y de clase dentro de un contexto de terror que usa de -
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Gonzalo Millán
Para Gonzalo Millán la poesía fue una mezcla de lenguaje, tiempo y memoria: "Unos le ponen más memoria, otros más tiempo o más lenguaje, pero esos son los materiales primordiales. Sin saberlo, he trabajado desde siempre con ellos" ("La cultura en Chile sigue siendo la rueda de repuesto", El Periodista, 2 de junio, 2006, p. 32). Con apenas 21 años, publicó Relación personal (1968), por el que recibió el premio Pedro de Oña: "Los primeros poemas están escritos en ese contexto, de un adolescente que se empieza a sentir también al margen, a sentirse distinto, está insatisfecho con el mundo que encuentra, el Chile de los años 60" ("La poesía tiene que mutar". Calabaza del diablo, mayo, 2003, p. 14). Tres años antes había escrito Chumbeque, una n
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Stella Díaz Varín
"No. La poesía no es una ecuación biológica. La poesía, si tú la pudieras definir -porque es indefinible- es un arranque sentimental, es una memoria de otro arranque sentimental, nada más". De personalidad polémica y rupturista, integrante de la Generación Literaria de 1950, Stella Díaz Varín se perfiló como una voz singular y trascendente en la historia de la literatura chilena. Su poesía fue una expresión original, que plasmó su fuerte personalidad creativa y bohemia, con una perspectiva femenina.
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Nació el 11 de agosto de 1926, en La Serena. El 1 de mayo de 1947 llegó a Santiago para estudiar medicina, con el firme propósito de especializarse en psiquiatría, carrera que no concluyó. En cambio se integró activamente a la Alianza de Intelect -
Diego Maquieira
"Ese es mi espíritu: tomar distancia con todo lo que está cerca del poder. El poder es el enemigo número uno de la creación. Y los creadores deben estar lo más lejos posible de círculos oficiales. Mi camino no va por ahí. Yo no voy a mejorar ni a empeorar mis poemas ni mi situación económica a través de los círculos oficiales. No tengo intereses creados, tengo interés en crear...". Diego Maquieira nació en Santiago de Chile, en 1951. Hijo de padre diplomático y de una socialitè chilena. Vivió su infancia en Nueva York, inmerso en la cultura norteamericana y el aprendizaje del inglés. Por el trabajo de su padre, la vida de Diego Maquieira transcurrió moviéndose de un lugar a otro: La Paz, Lima, Ciudad de México, Quito, Santiago. El constante
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Jorge Teillier
Nació en la ciudad de Lautaro el 24 de junio de 1935, el mismo día que murió Carlos Gardel. Estudió Historia y Geografía en la Universidad de Chile. Ejerció la docencia en el Liceo de Victoria. Perteneció al Grupo Trilce de la Universidad Austral de Valdivia. Fue director de la revista Orfeo y del Boletín de la Universidad de chile. Recibió los siguientes Premios: Gabriela Mistral, Municipal, Crav, Juegos Florales de la revista Paula, Premio Alerce de la SECH y el Premio Eduardo Anguita, concedido por la Editorial Universitaria al poeta vivo más importante de Chile y que no hubiese conseguido el Premio Nacional. También fue galardonado con el Premio Al Mejor Libro de Poesía 1993 establecido por el Consejo Nacional del Libro. Asimismo, ganó
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