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Yolanda Oreamuno

Yolando Oreamuno Unger was a Costa Rican writer. Her most acclaimed novel is La Ruta de su Evasión (1948). Her 40 years of life were markedly divided into two phases: the first 20 years, filled with youth, beauty and happiness, contrasted sharply with the following years of tragedy, loneliness and sickness.

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Carlos Luis Fallas

Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja, nació en Alajuela el 21 de enero de 1909. De origen humilde, pudo cursar hasta segundo año de la educación secundaria. A los 16 años se marchó a trabajar en las plantaciones de la United Fruit Company, en la zona atlántica costarricense. Posteriormente, aprendió el oficio de zapatero, labor que le permitió involucrarse con el sector proletario e ingresar al Partido Comunista. Fue Regidor Municipal de San José y diputado, además de Jefe Militar improvisado de los batallones obreros durante la guerra civil de 1948.

Entre sus obras literarias están: Mamita Yunai escrita en 1940, obra que pasó desapercibida hasta que Pablo Neruda se propuso que fuera conocida en el mundo entero. Gentes y Gentecillas, Marcos Ramírez, M

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Laura Esquivel

Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter, and former politician best known for her internationally acclaimed debut novel Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate). Blending magical realism with deep cultural roots, the novel became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States and was adapted into a successful film that received multiple international awards. Originally trained in education and theater, Esquivel began her career writing for children’s television and later moved into cinema and literature, often weaving food, family, and emotion into her stories.
Esquivel’s fiction is known for its lyrical style and its exploration of love, tradition, and identity, frequently drawing on Mexican history and folklore. Her oth

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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Alejandro Casona

Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina until April 1962, when he definitively returned to Spain.

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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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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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Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. He is considered one of Latin America's most important 20th-century writers.

Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy.

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Federico García Lorca

Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.

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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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Rosario Castellanos

Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 (the poets who wrote following the Second World War, influenced by César Vallejo and others), she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression, and her work has influenced feminist theory and cultural studies. Though she died young, she opened the door of Mexican literature to women, and left a legacy that still resonates today.

Throughout her career, Castellanos wrote poetry, essays, one major play, and three novels: the semi-autobiographical Balún Canán and Oficio de tinieblas (trans

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Carmen Lyra

Carmen Lyra, seudónimo de María Isabel Carvajal Quesada (San José, 15 de enero de 1887 - México, 14 de mayo de 1949) fue una escritora, pedagoga y política costarricense. Es considerada una de las escritoras más entrañables y significativas de la literatura costarricense. Se le ha señalado como la fundadora de la narrativa de tendencia realista en Costa Rica. Su obra más conocida es Cuentos de mi tía Panchita, una serie de cuentos infantiles publicados en 1920, una de las obras literarias más importantes de la literatura nacional. Además, escribió obras de teatro, ensayos políticos y las novelas En una silla de ruedas y Las fantasías de Juan Silvestre.

Educadora por antonomasia y renovadora de la docencia, fundó y dirigió la Escuela Normal M

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Janne Teller

Danish writer and essayist Austro-German origin.
Educated as a macroeconomist, Janne Teller worked for the United Nations and the European Union in resolving conflicts and humanitarian issues around the world, especially in Africa. She began writing fiction full time since 1995. She has lived in various parts of the world, such as Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, Bangladesh, Tanzania and Mozambique. Now living in New York.
Janne Teller's literature, which consists mainly of novels and essays, always focuses on existential outlook on life and human civilization, which causes often controversial debates. Furthermore, it was thought that her work Intet (2000), which was initially banned, revolutionized the novel for youth, and became a worldwide suc

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Carlos Luis Fallas

Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja, nació en Alajuela el 21 de enero de 1909. De origen humilde, pudo cursar hasta segundo año de la educación secundaria. A los 16 años se marchó a trabajar en las plantaciones de la United Fruit Company, en la zona atlántica costarricense. Posteriormente, aprendió el oficio de zapatero, labor que le permitió involucrarse con el sector proletario e ingresar al Partido Comunista. Fue Regidor Municipal de San José y diputado, además de Jefe Militar improvisado de los batallones obreros durante la guerra civil de 1948.

Entre sus obras literarias están: Mamita Yunai escrita en 1940, obra que pasó desapercibida hasta que Pablo Neruda se propuso que fuera conocida en el mundo entero. Gentes y Gentecillas, Marcos Ramírez, M

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Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Leblanc (1864 - 1941) was a French novelist, best known as the creator of gentleman thief (later detective) Arsène Lupin.

Leblanc began as a journalist, until he was asked to write a short story filler, and created, more gallant and dashing than English counterpart Sherlock Holmes.

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Joaquín Gutiérrez

Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel fue un escritor costarricense, creador del famoso personaje infantil Cocorí, miembro de la Academia Costarricense de la Lengua y Premio Nacional de Cultura Magón 1975. Hombre multifacético, fue ajedrecista, periodista, cronista de guerra, novelista, cuentista, poeta, traductor, editor, profesor universitario y político. Trotamundos, de sus muchos recorridos escribió diarios, crónicas y memorias.

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Yolanda Oreamuno

Yolando Oreamuno Unger was a Costa Rican writer. Her most acclaimed novel is La Ruta de su Evasión (1948). Her 40 years of life were markedly divided into two phases: the first 20 years, filled with youth, beauty and happiness, contrasted sharply with the following years of tragedy, loneliness and sickness.

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Lara Ríos

Lara Ríos (San José, 9 de abril de 1934) es el seudónimo literario de Marilyn Echeverría Zücher, escritora de Costa Rica de libros para niños.

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José León Sánchez

Frecuentemente considerado como uno de los autores más destacados e inusuales en la literatura costarricense, Sánchez posee una manera única de combinar el humor con el realismo crudo y descarnado típico de la época en la que vivió.

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José León Sánchez

Frecuentemente considerado como uno de los autores más destacados e inusuales en la literatura costarricense, Sánchez posee una manera única de combinar el humor con el realismo crudo y descarnado típico de la época en la que vivió.

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Carmen Lyra

Carmen Lyra, seudónimo de María Isabel Carvajal Quesada (San José, 15 de enero de 1887 - México, 14 de mayo de 1949) fue una escritora, pedagoga y política costarricense. Es considerada una de las escritoras más entrañables y significativas de la literatura costarricense. Se le ha señalado como la fundadora de la narrativa de tendencia realista en Costa Rica. Su obra más conocida es Cuentos de mi tía Panchita, una serie de cuentos infantiles publicados en 1920, una de las obras literarias más importantes de la literatura nacional. Además, escribió obras de teatro, ensayos políticos y las novelas En una silla de ruedas y Las fantasías de Juan Silvestre.

Educadora por antonomasia y renovadora de la docencia, fundó y dirigió la Escuela Normal M

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Joaquín García Monge

Joaquín García Monge (San José, 20 de enero de 1881 - ibíd., 31 de octubre de 1958) fue un escritor, intelectual y educador costarricense.

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Samuel Rovinski

Samuel Rovinski Gruszco es autor costarricense de numerosas obras de teatro, novelas, cuentos y ensayos.

De sus 16 obras de teatro, las de mayor éxito han sido: Las fisgonas de Paso Ancho (19 reimpresiones de la ECR), Un modelo para Rosaura (Premio Editorial Costa Rica 1974 y Premio Nacional Aquileo Echeverría 1975), El martirio del pastor (Finalista del premio Casa de las Américas, 1982), Gulliver dormido, La víspera del sábado y Gobierno de alcoba.

Su narrativa también ha obtenido reconocimientos importantes, como el Premio Nacional Aquileo Echeverría de cuento para La hora de los vencidos, en 1963 y de novela para Ceremonia de casta, en 1976.

Fungió por varios años como director general del Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica y miembro de la A

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Max Jiménez

Max Jiménez, one of Costa Rica's important early writers, was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1900. His literary works include novels, short stories, essays and poetry, but he is best known for his novel El Jaul (1937), which tells a series of events in an agricultural community in Costa Rica, though the events transcend the country itself. His works were largely discredited during his lifetime. He died in 1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Joaquín Gutiérrez

Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel fue un escritor costarricense, creador del famoso personaje infantil Cocorí, miembro de la Academia Costarricense de la Lengua y Premio Nacional de Cultura Magón 1975. Hombre multifacético, fue ajedrecista, periodista, cronista de guerra, novelista, cuentista, poeta, traductor, editor, profesor universitario y político. Trotamundos, de sus muchos recorridos escribió diarios, crónicas y memorias.

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Lara Ríos

Lara Ríos (San José, 9 de abril de 1934) es el seudónimo literario de Marilyn Echeverría Zücher, escritora de Costa Rica de libros para niños.

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Carlos Salazar Herrera

Carlos Salazar Herrera (1906–1982) was born in San José, Costa Rica, where he attended primary and secondary school. At the age of 14, he received his first award for an essay entitled "El café". In 1928 he participated in a contest in which he presented his work about renewing Costa Rican art, and in the same year, he received the second place award for his story "La Piedra de Toxil" in a literary contest organized. In 1930 he started working at the American Repertory where he published around 20 short stories. In 1934 he began doing wood etchings on caboa and other kinds of wood. In 1935 he got another reward due to the sculpture he made(el motivo or the motive).

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