Eric Wilson
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Eric Wilson is a Canadian children's author and now living in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Ann Cameron
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Ann Cameron grew up in Wisconsin. Today, she and her husband live in Guatemala. From her house she can see a waterfall and three volcanoes. Ann Cameron has been a teacher and an editor as well as a writer.
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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a ne
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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.
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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 -
Tom Clancy
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. was an American novelist and military-political thriller pioneer. Raised in a middle-class Irish-American family, he developed an early fascination with military history. Despite initially studying physics at Loyola College, he switched to English literature, graduating in 1969 with a modest GPA. His aspirations of serving in the military were dashed due to severe myopia, leading him instead to a career in the insurance business.
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While working at a small insurance agency, Clancy spent his spare time writing what would become The Hunt for Red October (1984). Published by the Naval Institute Press for an advance of $5,000, the book received an unexpected boost when President Ronald Reagan praised it as “the best yarn.” T -
Thomas Mann
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Serbian: Tomas Man
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important -
Hernán Rivera Letelier
Until the age of 11 he lived in the Algorta saltpeter mining town (north of Chile), after that his family moves to Antofagasta city, where he works in numerous jobs. For three years he travel by Chile, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and Argentina , and later started living at Pedro de Valdivia (another saltpeter mining town), where he finish high school and graduates as secondary teacher in INACAP.
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He has received the Premio Consejo Nacional de Libro (Chilean National Book Award) twice, in 1994 and 1996.
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Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan novelist, poet, and (above all) short story writer.
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He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.
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Elvira Lindo
Elvira Lindo is a Spanish journalist and writer.
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At the age of 12 Lindo moved to Madrid, where she studied journalism. She did not get her degree, as she began to work in television and radio as a speaker, actress and scriptwriter. Her first novel was based on one of her fictional radio characters, the madrileño boy Manolito Gafotas, who has become a classic of Spanish children's literature. Manolito is the son of a trucker and lives a humble life in the working-class quarter of Carabanchel. The character was the protagonist of several first-person novels written with a solid style that includes humour, irony and sharp social criticism.
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Jordi Sierra i Fabra
1947
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—Born in Barcelona, July 26th.
1955
—Serious accident. First literary incursions.
1959
—First full-length novel, 500 pages. Firm intention to become a writer.
1964
—Graduates from high school. Attends technical school at night and works during the day for a construction company.
1968
—First professional attempts in the musical field. Founder of and collaborator in El Gran Musical radio programme (Cadena SER, Madrid). Additional collaborations with Radio Barcelona.
—Writes articles and collaborations for La Prensa in Barcelona and for Nuevo Diario in Madrid.
1969
—Correspondent for El Gran Musical in Barcelona.
1970
—Quits job and studies to work full-time as a music critic. Manages the weekly magazine Disco Express.
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Ann Cameron
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Ann Cameron grew up in Wisconsin. Today, she and her husband live in Guatemala. From her house she can see a waterfall and three volcanoes. Ann Cameron has been a teacher and an editor as well as a writer.
She says that writing is hardest for her at the beginning of a book. To get started, she follows this important rule for writing: "Apply seat of pants to bottom of chair." -
Antonio Santa Ana
Antonio Santa Ana nació en 1963 en Buenos Aires, donde vive actualmente con sus dos hijos. Trabaja desde hace diez años con el Grupo Editorial Norma en Argentina, donde se ocupa de la edición y circulación de las colecciones infantiles y juveniles. Antes de vincularse a Norma trabajó durante diez años en la organización de la Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires y en la editorial Libros del Quirquincho. Miembro de la comisión directiva de la Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la Argentina (ALIJA) y del comité editorial de la Revista latinoamericana de literatura infantil y juvenil que publica Fundalectura (seccional de IBBY), Santa Ana ha sido jurado de importantes concursos literarios y es parte activa de actividades varias en torno
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Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney is an author of children's books including Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. Jeff was born in College Park, Maryland, in 1971 where he created a comic strip called "Igdoof."He also created the children's website 'Poptropica'.
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Mira Lobe
Mira Lobe wurde 1913 in der niederschlesischen Handelsstadt Görlitz in einer jüdischen Kaufmannsfamilie geboren. Nach dem Besuch der Volksschule absolvierte sie hier das Gymnasium, wo sie 1933 maturierte. Nach ihrer Schulzeit wollte sie Germanistik und Kunstgeschichte studieren, jedoch war ihr dies als Jüdin untersagt. Nach Abschluss der Textil- und Modeschule in Berlin wanderte sie 1936 nach Palästina aus; Mutter, Großmutter und Schwester sollten später nachkommen. Im Sommer 1940 heiratete sie den deutschen Schauspieler und Regisseur Friedrich Lobe (* 1889)[1], der am Arbeitertheater „Ohel“ in Tel Aviv wirkte. 1944 brachte sie Tochter Claudia und 1947 Sohn Reinhardt zur Welt. Danach begann sie zu schreiben.
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Jules Verne
Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
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This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
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Eduardo Barrios
Eduardo Barrios Achurra was a Chilean writer and poet born in Valparaíso in 1884.
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After his father’s death, at the age of 5 his family moved to Lima until the age of 15 where he was the victim of harassment by his classmates. After high school he joined the Chilean Military School but quit before graduating as an officer. He spent much of his young adulthood travelling throughout Latin America doing a colorful array of odd jobs to earn a living. By 1915 he was back in Chile working for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including La Mañana, Zig Zag, revista Pacifico and revista Atenea. From 1925 to 1959 he held various positions in government, museums and the local Press. He was elected to the Chilean, Argentinian and the Brazilian Acade -
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Sergio Gómez
Sergio Gómez nació en Temuco en 1962. Estudió Derecho y Literatura en la Universidad de Concepción, y fue profesor en la última especialidad. Fue creador del suplemento Zona de Contacto, del diario El Mercurio, y desde mediados de los años noventa se ha dedicado principalmente a la escritura.
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Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then came to Ontario for a while to draw pictures, then Halifax, and then New York, and then back to Toronto.
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Edgar Allan Poe
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
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Jacqueline Balcells
Seudónimo de Jaqueline Marty Aboitiz. Estudió Periodismo en la Universidad Católica de Santiago.
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Jacqueline Balcells, comenzó a escribir cuentos para niños cuando nacieron sus hijos. Pero sólo los publicó cuando llegó a vivir a Francia en el año 1982. Vuelve a Chile en 1986, dedicándose de lleno a la literatura infantil.
La obra de Jacqueline Balcells ha sido traducida al inglés y se ha editado en Estados Unidos por la Latin American Literary Review Press.
Ha escrito numerosos libros en coautoría con Ana María Güiraldes.
Premios: (1990) Lista de Honor del IBBY por "El Polizón de la Santa María", 1988
(1992) Trofeo Bonnemine D'Or en 1992 por Léo contre Léa de la colección J'aime Lire de Bayard Presse
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Sergio Gómez
Sergio Gómez nació en Temuco en 1962. Estudió Derecho y Literatura en la Universidad de Concepción, y fue profesor en la última especialidad. Fue creador del suplemento Zona de Contacto, del diario El Mercurio, y desde mediados de los años noventa se ha dedicado principalmente a la escritura.
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