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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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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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Cristina Fernández Cubas

Pseudónimo: Fernanda Kubbs

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Xosé Neira Vilas

Naceu en Gres, Pontevedra, en 1928. É membro numerario da Real Academia Galega, Doutor Honoris Causa polas universidades da Coruña e da Habana, e Fillo Predilecto do Concello de Vila de Cruces. Entre outros galardóns recibiu a Medalla Castelao, o Pedrón de Honra, o Premio Trasalba. Premio da Crítica Española (novela en galego) e Premio da Crítica Galega (ensaio). É un dos escritores clásicos da literatura galega.
Emigrou a Arxentina en 1949, onde fixo a carreira de Xornalismo. Foi Secretario Xeral das Mocedades Galeguistas, e Secretario da Comisión Organizadora do histórico Congreso da Emigración Galega. Casou coa escritora cubana, de ascendencia galega, Anisia Miranda, en 1957. Xuntos fundaron ese mesmo ano “Follas Novas”, editorial e distr

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Jorge Manrique

Jorge Manrique (c. 1440 – 1479) was a major Spanish poet, whose main work, the Coplas a la muerte de su padre (Stanzas about the Death of his Father), is still read today. He was a supporter of the great Spanish queen, Isabel I of Castile, and actively participated on her side in the civil war that broke out against her half-brother, Enrique IV, when the latter attempted to make his daughter, Juana, crown princess. Jorge died in 1479 during an attempt to take the castle of Garcimuñoz, defended by Marquis of Villena (a staunch enemy of Isabel), after Isabel gained the crown.

Manrique was a great-nephew of Iñigo López de Mendoza (marquess of Santillana), a descendant of Pero López de Ayala, chancellor of Castile, and a nephew of Gómez Manrique

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Juana Manuela Gorriti

Juana Manuela Gorriti Zuviria (Horcones, Rosario de la Frontera, provincia de Salta, 15 de julio de 1818 - Buenos Aires, 6 de noviembre de 1896) fue una escritora argentina, aunque también se ha hecho célebre por las peripecias de su vida y por haber tenido como notoria afición la de ser cocinera.

Fue la primera narradora argentina, una de las figuras femeninas mas originales e interesantes en la América del siglo XIX. De temperamento independiente -raro en una mujer de su época- carácter fuerte y gran talento.
Nació en el seno de una familia tradicional y adinerada. De ella heredo su disposición a las letras y las virtudes patricias, y con ellos soporto la angustia del destierro y la pobreza. Vivió el exilio en la Paz, Bolivia, donde se cas

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José Zorrilla

Dramaturgo y poeta español que fue una de las figuras más destacadas del romanticismo. Nació en Valladolid y estudió en las universidades de Toledo y Valladolid. Escritor enormemente prolífico, publicó cuarenta obras, en su mayoría historias nacionales, entre 1839 y 1849. También completó los Cantos del trovador (1840-1841), una serie de leyendas españolas escritas en verso. En 1850 se trasladó a Francia y en 1855 a México. De regreso a España, en 1866, comprobó que pese a la extraordinaria popularidad que había alcanzado su obra no podía cobrar derechos de autor. Vivió en la pobreza hasta que finalmente obtuvo una pequeña pensión del Gobierno. En 1889 fue nombrado poeta laureado de España. El genio de Zorrilla como poeta de su tiempo se ad

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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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Fernando del Paso

Fernando del Paso Morante es un cuentista y novelista mexicano. Cursó hasta el segundo año de la carrera de economía y llevó un seminario de literatura comparada en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM. Trabajó en varias agencias de publicidad y fue becario del Centro Mexicano de Escritores (1964-1965). Colaboró en diversas publicaciones, como La Palabra y el Hombre, Vuelta y Revista de la Universidad de México. Desde 1970 residió en Londres, donde se desempeñó como locutor y redactor para la BBC. En 1986 fue nombrado agregado cultural en la embajada mexicana en París.

Tras unos inicios como poeta (Sonetos de lo diario, 1958), se orientó hacia un tipo de novela total que integrara la historia y la ficción, el sentido del humor y la r

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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).

No obstante, Juan Goytisolo no destaca sólo como autor de ficción, sino que

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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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Bartolomé de las Casas

Spanish missionary and historian Bartolomé de las Casas sought to abolish the oppression and enslavement of the native peoples in the Americas.

This member of order of preachers, a 16th-century social reformer and Dominican friar, served as the first resident bishop of Chiapas and the first officially appointed "protector of the Indians." The most famous A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias of his extensive writings chronicle the first decades of colonization of the west and focus particularly on the atrocities that the colonizers committed against the indigenous.

In 1515, he reformed his views, gave up his encomienda, and advocated before Charles V, king and holy Roman emperor, on behalf of ri

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Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final Solution.

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José Luis Alonso de Santos

Se trasladó a Madrid en 1959, donde se licenciaría en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad Complutense y mucho más tarde en la futura Facultad de Ciencias de la Información. Comenzó a interesarse por el mundo de la interpretación, recibiendo clases de William Layton en el TEM. Se unió al grupo Tábano, participando en la experiencia de la Castañuela 70. Su primer estreno como autor se produce en 1975 con ¡Viva el Duque, nuestro dueño!

En 1988 fundó la productora teatral Pentación, con Gerardo Malla y Rafael Álvarez.

Ha escrito guiones de cine, series de televisión, narrativa infantil y novelas. Sus obras han sido editadas tanto en España como en el extranjero y se han publicado también ediciones críticas de varias de sus obras.

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Alfonso Reyes

Poeta, ensayista, narrador, diplomático y pensador mexicano. Se le conoce también como «el regiomontano universal»

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Juana Inés de la Cruz

Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in a town in the Valley of Mexico to a Creole mother Isabel Ramírez and a Spanish military father, Pedro Manuel de Asbaje. As a child, she learned Nahuatl (Uto-Aztec language spoken in Mexico and Central America) and read and write Spanish in the middle of three years. Thanks to her grandfather's lush library, Juana Inés de la Cruz read the Greek and Roman classics and the theology of the time, she learned Latin in a self-taught way. In 1665, admired for her talent and precocity, she was lady-in-waiting to Leonor Carreto, wife of Viceroy Antonio Sebastián de Toledo. Sponsored by the Marquises of Mancera, she shone in the viceregal court of New Spain for her erudition and versifying ability. In 1667, Juana Inés

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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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Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98, a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898).

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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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Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 ("for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.") and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.

In 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him, for his literary merits, the title Marquis of Iria Flavia.

His son, Camilo José Cela Conde is also a writer.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_J...

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Àngel Guimerà

Àngel Guimerà i Jorge (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 6 de maig de 1845 - Barcelona, 18 de juliol de 1924) fou dramaturg, polític i poeta en llengua catalana. La seva extensa obra, notable per unir a una aparença romàntica els elements principals del realisme, el va convertir en un dels màxims exponents de la Renaixença o "ressorgiment" de les lletres catalanes a l'acabament del segle xix.
Fill de pare català i mare canària, va passar els primers anys de la seva vida a Tenerife. Als set anys va anar a viure a Catalunya, on es va adaptar ràpidament. Fou una de les figures més destacades de la Renaixença, tant política com literària. Tot i que va iniciar la seva carrera amb la poesia, la major part de la seva obra literària estigué dedicada al teatre

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Joanot Martorell

Joanot Martorell (1413 – 1468) was a Valencian knight and the author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, written in the Valencian vernacular (Martorell calls it vulgar llengua valenciana) and published at Valencia in 1490.

It deals with the adventures of a knight in the Byzantine Empire. Miguel de Cervantes in the book burning scene of Don Quixote considers it the best chivalry novel. Martorell was a chivalrous man and suffered an early death due to court intrigue, leading to a colleague, Martí Joan de Galba, finishing the novel.

It is considered to be one of the first works of alternative history.

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Richard Stoneman

"I was born just a few miles from Exeter and have been an Honorary Fellow in the department since 1996. I spent thirty years as a classics editor, most of those years for Routledge; since retiring from that role in 2006, and returning from London to live in Devon, I have been taking an active part in university affairs, including teaching, research and a planned conference.

The core of my research interests has been the continuity of the Greek world and Greek tradition up to the present day. I have written anthologies and travel guides reflecting this interest. Since the early 1980s the main focus of my research has been Alexander the Great, especially in later legend. I have recently participated in several international conferences on the

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Jordi Sierra i Fabra

1947
—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.
—Starts travelling all over the wo

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Maria Gripe

Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter (25 July 1923, Vaxholm, Uppland – 5 April 2007, Rönninge), was a Swedish author of books for children and young people, often written in a magical and mystical tone. In 1946 she married the artist Harald Gripe, who created cover illustrations for most of her books. His illustration career, in fact, began in connection with his wife's debut as author of I vår lilla stad ("In our little town"). Maria Gripe's first major success was Josephine (1961), the first of a series of novels that later included Hugo and Josephine and Hugo. During most of her adult life Maria Gripe lived in Nyköping, where an adaptation of her book Agnes Cecilia was filmed. After a long period of dementia Maria Gripe died at 83 in a nu

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Alfredo Gómez Cerdá

Alfredo Gómez Cerdá, licenciado en filología española, es un escritor madrileño nacido en 1951. Sintió atracción por la literatura desde pequeño. Leer le transportaba desde de su barrio, gris y anodino, a lugares increíbles, con paisajes fascinantes y seres humanos muy diferentes a los que había conocido hasta entonces. Al mismo tiempo descubrió que escribir le permitía expresar sus ideas y comunicarse con los demás. Decidió muy pronto que los libros le acompañarían siempre. Aunque dio sus primeros pasos hacia el teatro, es más conocido por sus obras para el público infantil y juvenil, entre los que se ha convertido en uno de los autores de referencia. En 1982 ganó su primer premio al obtener el segundo puesto del Premio Barco de Vapor, que

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José Gorostiza

Publicó únicamente cuatro libros: el primero, Canciones para cantar en las barcas (1925), se caracteriza por la pureza de su línea y delicadeza de su lirismo. La interrelación de estos elementos le permitió escribir poemas aparentemente simples, pero sumamente complejos en su significación y lirismo.

Después de catorce años, durante los cuales sus poemas permanecieron inéditos o dispersos en revistas y antologías, apareció Muerte sin fin (1939), uno de los más importantes poemas largos escritos en español; en éste, los versos dejan la simplicidad y, sin abandonar el diálogo entre vida común y expresión exacta, se sumergen en una búsqueda poética exhaustiva del ser, en el mundo y en la muerte.

En 1964 apareció Poesía, libro en el que reúne las

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Luis de Góngora y Argote

Luis de Góngora y Argote (11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered to be the most prominent Spanish poets of their age. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorism (Gongorismo). This style existed in stark contrast to Quevedo's Conceptismo.

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Juan Muñoz Martín

Nacido en Madrid, estudió filología francesa y ejerció como profesor de bachillerato.

Le debe su fama a su éxito como autor de literatura infantil. De su obra, destaca la serie protagonizadas por fray Perico (9 libros), por cuya primera obra, Fray Perico y su borrico, obtuvo en 1979 el II "Premio El Barco de Vapor", y la protagonizada por El pirata Garrapata (16 libros), un incansable viajero por todo el mundo. De la primera serie se han vendido más de un millón de ejemplares y del segundo medio millón.

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Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega (Toledo, c. 1501– Le Muy, Nice, France, October 14, 1536), was a Spanish soldier and poet. The prototypical "Renaissance man," he was the most influential (though not the first or the only) poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques and themes to Spain. His exact birth date is unknown, but estimations by scholars put his year of birth between 1498 and 1503.

Garcilaso was born in the Spanish city of Toledo. His father, Pedro Suárez de Figueroa, was a noble in the royal court of the Catholic Kings. His mother's name was Sancha de Guzmán. He had six brothers and sisters: Leanor, Pedro, Fernando, Francisco, Gonzalo, and Juana. Garcilaso was the second-oldest son which meant he did not receive the m

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Juan Ruiz

Juan Ruiz (ca. 1283 – ca. 1350), known as the Archpriest of Hita (Arcipreste de Hita), was a medieval Spanish poet. He is best known for his ribald, earthy poem, Libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love). He was born either in Alcalá de Henares, or perhaps Alcalá la Real, a village of Jaén, then part of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain. Little is known about him today, save that he was a cleric and probably studied in Toledo. Though his birth name is known to be Juan Ruiz, he is widely referred to by his title of "Archpriest of Hita."

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Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas was a nobleman, politician and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. His style is categorized by what was called conceptismo, characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, simple vocabulary, witty metaphors, and wordplay.

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Joan Fuster

Joan Fuster va ser un escriptor valencià en llengua catalana. Tot i que va ser més reconegut popularment per la seua obra principal, l'assaig històric Nosaltres, els valencians, el seu llibre més influent, la seua tasca investigadora i editorial abraça diferents facetes i camps de coneixement, incloent-hi lingüística, història, filosofia i turisme. Està considerat l'assagista valencià més important del segle XX.

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Nuccio Ordine

Nuccio Ordine was an Italian author and philosopher, professor of literature at the University of Calabria. He was one of the world's top experts on Renaissance and the philosopher Giordano Bruno.

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Ángel de Saavedra, duque de Rivas

Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Spanish poet and dramatist

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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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Gona89

Gonzalo (1989) conocido como Gona89, es un youtuber español actualmente realiza sus directos por facebook (Gona in Live)

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Inma Rubiales

Inma Rubiales es una joven autora extremeña que nació en marzo de 2002. Su pasión por la literatura surgió cuando solo era una niña, y, después de pasar años leyendo las historias de otros, decidió que ya era hora de crear las suyas. En 2019, con solo diecisiete años, su primera novela dio el salto al papel tras su éxito en la plataforma Wattpad. Fue en 2022 cuando publicó Hasta que nos quedemos sin estrellas. Después vinieron El arte de ser nosotros (2023), Todos los lugares que mantuvimos en secreto (2024) y Nuestro lugar en el mundo (2025). Actualmente, Inma termina sus estudios en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas mientras trabaja en sus novelas

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inmaarv/

X: https://twitter.com/inmaarv

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Elísabet Benavent

Elísabet Benavent (Valencia, 1984) es licenciada en Comunicación Audiovisual por la Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU de Valencia y máster en Comunicación y Arte por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. En la actualidad trabaja en el Departamento de Comunicación de una multinacional. Su pasión es la escritura. La publicación en 2013 de sus novelas En los zapatos de Valeria, Valeria en el espejo, Valeria en blanco y negro y Valeria al desnudo se ha convertido en un éxito total de crítica y ventas con más de 120.000 ejemplares vendidos. Los derechos audiovisuales de la saga Valeria se han vendido para televisión. En la actualidad se ocupa de la familia Coqueta y está inmersa en la escritura.

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Juan Ruiz

Juan Ruiz (ca. 1283 – ca. 1350), known as the Archpriest of Hita (Arcipreste de Hita), was a medieval Spanish poet. He is best known for his ribald, earthy poem, Libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love). He was born either in Alcalá de Henares, or perhaps Alcalá la Real, a village of Jaén, then part of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain. Little is known about him today, save that he was a cleric and probably studied in Toledo. Though his birth name is known to be Juan Ruiz, he is widely referred to by his title of "Archpriest of Hita."

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Maria Martinez

María Martínez es una escritora española de éxito. Autora de la serie new adult «Cruzando los límites» y las novelas Una canción para Novalie, Palabras que nunca te dije, Tú y otros desastres naturales y La fragilidad de un corazón bajo la lluvia. Historias delicadas, que tratan la complejidad de las emociones, y temas como la familia y la identidad. Le encanta pasar el tiempo entre amigos, libros y música. Últimamente disfruta de su nueva afición por el K-pop y la cultura coreana.

IG: @mariamartinez.itsme
TikTok: @mariamartinez.itsme
contacto@mariamartinezauthor.com

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Joël Dicker

Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied law. He spent childhood summers in New England, particularly in Stonington and Bar Harbor, Maine. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair won three French literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Dicker lives in Geneva.

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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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Gonzalo de Berceo

Gonzalo de Berceo (ca. 1197 – before 1264) was a Spanish poet born in the Riojan village of Berceo, close to the major Benedictine monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla. He is celebrated for his poems on religious subjects, written in a style of verse which has been called Mester de Clerecía, shared with more secular productions such as the Libro de Alexandre, the Libro de Apolonio. He is considered the first Spanish poet known by name.

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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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José Zorrilla

Dramaturgo y poeta español que fue una de las figuras más destacadas del romanticismo. Nació en Valladolid y estudió en las universidades de Toledo y Valladolid. Escritor enormemente prolífico, publicó cuarenta obras, en su mayoría historias nacionales, entre 1839 y 1849. También completó los Cantos del trovador (1840-1841), una serie de leyendas españolas escritas en verso. En 1850 se trasladó a Francia y en 1855 a México. De regreso a España, en 1866, comprobó que pese a la extraordinaria popularidad que había alcanzado su obra no podía cobrar derechos de autor. Vivió en la pobreza hasta que finalmente obtuvo una pequeña pensión del Gobierno. En 1889 fue nombrado poeta laureado de España. El genio de Zorrilla como poeta de su tiempo se ad

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Joanot Martorell

Joanot Martorell (1413 – 1468) was a Valencian knight and the author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, written in the Valencian vernacular (Martorell calls it vulgar llengua valenciana) and published at Valencia in 1490.

It deals with the adventures of a knight in the Byzantine Empire. Miguel de Cervantes in the book burning scene of Don Quixote considers it the best chivalry novel. Martorell was a chivalrous man and suffered an early death due to court intrigue, leading to a colleague, Martí Joan de Galba, finishing the novel.

It is considered to be one of the first works of alternative history.

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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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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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Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas was a nobleman, politician and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. His style is categorized by what was called conceptismo, characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, simple vocabulary, witty metaphors, and wordplay.

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Jorge Manrique

Jorge Manrique (c. 1440 – 1479) was a major Spanish poet, whose main work, the Coplas a la muerte de su padre (Stanzas about the Death of his Father), is still read today. He was a supporter of the great Spanish queen, Isabel I of Castile, and actively participated on her side in the civil war that broke out against her half-brother, Enrique IV, when the latter attempted to make his daughter, Juana, crown princess. Jorge died in 1479 during an attempt to take the castle of Garcimuñoz, defended by Marquis of Villena (a staunch enemy of Isabel), after Isabel gained the crown.

Manrique was a great-nephew of Iñigo López de Mendoza (marquess of Santillana), a descendant of Pero López de Ayala, chancellor of Castile, and a nephew of Gómez Manrique

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish post-romanticist writer of poetry, short stories, and nonfiction now considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the post-romanticism movement and wrote while realism was enjoying success in Spain. He was moderately well known during his life, but it was after his death that most of his works were published.

He is best known for his intimate, lyrical poems and for his legends; more importantly, he is remembered for the verbal decor with which he impregnated everything he wrote. A Romantic poet above all else, Bécqu

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Antonio Buero Vallejo

Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During his career he won three National Theatre Prizes (in 1957, 1958 & 1959), a National Theatre Prize for all his career in 1980, the National Literature Prize in 1996, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spain's highest literary honour, in 1986. From 1971 until his death he was a member of the Real Academia Española.

From 1934 to 1936 Vallejo studied art and painting at San Fernando Escuela de Arte, in Madrid. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army. After the war he was imprisoned for six years. After being released he wrote Story of a Stairway in 1949. This work presented a graphic pictu

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night."

He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. He had two brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer (1799–1877) and Henry, afterwards Lord Dalling and Bulwer.

Lord Lytton's original surname was Bulwer, the names 'Earle' and 'Lytton' were middle names. On

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Andreu Martín

Andreu Martín (Barcelona, 1949), es escritor de novelas y guiones. Ha escrito teatro y series de televisión. También trabajó como director de cine en Sauna.

Ha publicado varias y excelentes novelas policíacas, de las que destacamos Prótesis (Premio Círculo del Crimen, 1980), que se publicó en la prestigiosa "Série Noire" de Gallimard en 1996; Por amor al arte (1982), Aprende y calla (1987), Barcelona Connection (Premio Hammet, 1989), Juez y parte (2002). Es también un prolífico escritor de literatura infantil y juvenil, entre las que destaca la serie protagonizada por el joven detective Flanagan y que comenzó con No demanis llobarro fora de temporada.

Escribe indistintamente en castellano y catalán. Su obra ha sido traducida al alemán, francé

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David Lozano Garbala

David Lozano Garbala es un escritor de libros juveniles, guionista y profesor español, Premio Gran Angular por su novela Donde surgen las sombras.

Licenciado en Derecho y con estudios de Filología hispánica, ha ejercido como abogado, y desde 1998 se dedica profesionalmente a la escritura, lo que compaginó un tiempo con la docencia en el bachillerato del colegio Santa María del Pilar de Zaragoza. Posee un máster en Comunicación por la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche.

Ha participado como actor en diversos cortometrajes y ha colaborado con la cadena de televisión Zaragoza TV: durante dos años dirigió y presentó el programa Depredadores y después se hizo cargo del divulgativo En pocas palabras.2

También colabora como guionista para algunas p

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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.

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

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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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Jordi Galceran

Jordi Galceran Ferrer is a Spanish-Catalan playwright, screenwriter and translator, known internationally for his play "El mètode Grönholm" ("The Grönholm Method", 2003). He writes both in Catalan and Spanish.

Galceran studied Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona and started to write theatrical plays in 1988. In 1995, with "Paraules encadenades" (Chains of words) he won the 20th Born Theatre Award, and in 1996, the Critic's Award Serra d'Or for best work in the Catalan language. His play "Dakota" (1995) received the Ignasi Iglesias award. Among the other Galceran plays: "Gaudí" (2002), "Carnaval" (2005), "Cancún" (2007).

"Killing Words", a 2003 film directed by Laura Mañá, is based on "Paraules encadenades". "Fragile", a film by J

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Alberto Méndez

Alberto Méndez (Madrid, 1941 — 2004), hijo del traductor José Méndez Herrera, fue un narrador español.
Nació en Madrid, donde transcurrió su infancia. Estudió bachillerato en Roma y se licenció en Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Trabajó en grupos editoriales nacionales e internacionales. En 2002 quedó finalista en el Premio Internacional de cuentos Max Aub, con uno de los relatos de Los girasoles ciegos, su primer libro narrativo.
Fue galardonado a título póstumo con el Premio Nacional de Narrativa (España) 2005 por Los girasoles ciegos, libro compuesto de cuatro relatos ambientados en la Guerra Civil Española. La obra obtuvo también los premios Setenil y de la Crítica. El último relato del libro -el que le da no

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Ana Frank

Name in Spanish, see Anne Frank.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles, best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality,

Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood. His distinctive directorial style featured layered, nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes.

Welles'

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Federico Gamboa

Federico Gamboa Iglesias (Ciudad de México; 22 de diciembre de 1864 - íb.; 15 de agosto de 1939) fue un escritor y diplomático mexicano. Se le ha considerado como uno de los máximos exponentes del naturalismo en México. Escribió novelas, obras de teatro, artículos para periódicos y revistas, así como una autobiografía cuando tenía 28 años de edad. Durante muchos años llevó el registro de su andar y pensar, anotaciones que aparecieron en forma de cinco diarios. De forma póstuma se publicaron dos tomos más de estos diarios.

Federico Gamboa ha pasado a la historia como uno de los novelistas mexicanos más representativos del régimen porfirista. José Emilio Pacheco afirma que Gamboa era “un desarraigado geográfico que en la sociedad porfiriana en

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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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Bartolomé Hidalgo

Bartolomé José Hidalgo fue un escritor oriental, iniciador, junto con Hilario Ascasubi, de la poesía gauchesca en el Río de la Plata.

Huérfano temprano, vivió con su madre y hermanas en Montevideo y la pobreza de la ciudad colonial y su condición de hijo de hogar modesto lo marcaron, le hicieron sentir sus rigores. A los 18 años se enroló en el llamado Batallón de Partidarios de Montevideo, sirviendo a las órdenes de Francisco Antonio Maciel, en la batalla del Cardal. En el año 1811 se incorporó a la revolución emancipadora, confirmando su doble rol, tan común en esa época, de ser gente de milicia y de actividad personal. En Paysandú recibe a José Artigas, el «Jefe de los Orientales», quien en una carta lo trata afectuosamente y lo incorpora

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Maite Carranza

Maite Carranza Gil-Dolz studied Anthropology and worked as a teacher. In 1992 she began to write full time. She has received several awards, including the EDEBA children’s literature prize and has written more than 40 books for young readers. Maite lives in Barcelona, Spain.

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Alfonso Sastre

Dramaturgo español autor de una obra caracterizada por su crítica y su fuerte carga social. La Guerra Civil y el impacto que le produjo se reflejó en toda su obra. Comenzó a estudiar ingeniería pero la abandonó pronto. En 1945 fundó con algunos amigos el grupo teatral Arte Nuevo, que se proponía renovar la escena española, y escribió en colaboración con Medardo Fraile el drama "Ha sonado la muerte". Dos años después se matriculó en Filosofía y Letras en Madrid, carrera que acabó tiempo después en Murcia. Mientras tanto continuó escribiendo teatro y también encargándose de la dirección de las obras y la escenografía.

En 1950 redactó el Manifiesto del T.A.S. (Teatro de Agitación Social) publicado en la revista La Hora, en la que también escrib

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Azorín

Spanish poet and writer José Augusto Trinidad Martínez Ruíz wrote most of his literary works under the pseudonym Azorín.

The eldest of nine brothers, he studied law at the University of Valencia, then worked as a journalist in Madrid. He later emigrated to Paris.

He also wrote under the names Fray José
(in "The Catholic Education of Petrer") and and Juan of Lily (in "The Defender of Yecla").

He was an anarchist in his youth, but grew more conservative as he aged and supported Franco when the General came to power in Spain (although the author remained in France).

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Séchu Sende

Xosé Luís González Sende, máis coñecido como Séchu Sende, nado en Padrón en 1972, é un escritor galego.

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Eduardo Blanco Amor

Eduardo Blanco Amor (Ourense 1897-Vigo 1979), fue el hijo menor de una familia modesta y autodidacta desde su infancia. Blanco Amor entró como secretario de dirección en el El diario de Orense con 17 años. Participa desde joven en el ambiente literario de la ciudad, conociendo el magisterio de Vicente Risco, figura de importancia decisiva en la defensa y promoción de la cultura gallega. Emigra a Buenos Aires en 1919, en plena eclosión cultural. Animador de las instituciones gallegas más allá del mar, dedicó toda su vida a la concienciación y culturización de los emigrantes. En 1923 fundó con Isla Couto la revista gallega Terra; participó también en otra publicación galleguista, Céltiga. En 1926 entró a formar parte del diario argentino La N

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Fernando Fernán Gómez

Being probably one of the greatest actors on spanish cinema, Fernando Fernán Gómez also directed many films as adaptations of spanish classic books like "El Lazarillo de Tormes" and wrote scripts, both original and film adaptations. Following this creative side, he wrote many novels and memoir books of his own life and professional experiences.

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Sabina Berman

Escritora: Dramaturga, Novelista, Ensayista, Periodista y Guionista.

Ha ganado cuatro veces el Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia de México. Dos veces el Premio Nacional de Periodismo. Un Ariel de la Academia de Cinematografía. Dos películas de su autoría han representado a México en los Oscares. Ha dado clases en la NYU, la Universidad de Yale y la Universidad de Claifornia at Berkeley.

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 – ca. 1580) was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortés. Born in Medina del Campo (Spain), he came from a family of little wealth and he himself had received only a minimal education. He sailed to Tierra Firme in 1514 to make his fortune, but after two years found few opportunities there. Much of the native population had already been killed by epidemics and there was political unrest. So he sailed to Cuba, where he was promised a grant of Indian slaves. But that promise was never fulfilled, leading Díaz, in 1517, to join an expedition being organized by a group of about 110 fellow settlers from T

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Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda

Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda is pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The identity of Fernández de Avellaneda has been the subject of many theories, but there is no consensus on who he was. One theory holds that Avellaneda’s work was a collaboration by friends of Lope de Vega.

Critical opinion has generally held Avellaneda’s work in low regard, and Cervantes himself is highly critical of it in his own Part 2. However, it is possible that Cervantes would never have completed his own continuation were it not for the stimulus Avellaneda provided. Throughout Part 2 of Cervantes' book Don Quixote meets characters who know of him from their reading of his Part 1, but in Chapter 59 Don Quixote first learns of Avellaneda

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Purificació Mascarell

Purificació Mascarell (Xàtiva, 1985) es doctora en Filología Hispánica y profesora de la Universitat de València. Editora del volumen colectivo Diálogos en las tablas. Últimas tendencias de la puesta en escena del teatro clásico español (Reichenberger, 2014), es también coautora del blog El patio de comedias y crítica literaria de la revista Clarín y del diario Levante-EMV.

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Ulrich Schmidl

Ulrico Schmidl o Schmidel o Schmidt, (1510-1579/1580/1581), fue un soldado lansquenete, viajero y cronista de origen alemán, famoso por la publicación en 1567 de su Verídica descripción.

Sus testimonios adquieren particular valor por provenir de un conquistador no español (que a su vez publica fuera de España) y en especial, por ser una de las primeras crónicas de los habitantes y territorios que él recorrió por muchos años; y que luego compondrían los actuales países de Argentina y el Paraguay.

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Maria Aurèlia Capmany

Maria Aurèlia Capmany (Barcelona, 1918-1991). Novel·lista, autora de teatre i assagista. És una de les escriptores catalanes més polifacètiques. El 1947 queda finalista del Premi de novel·la Joanot Martorell amb Necessitem morir i el guanya l'any següent amb El cel no és transparent. El seu prestigi com a narradora li arribarà, però, el 1956 amb l'obra Betúlia. El 1959 funda amb Ricard Salvat l'Escola d'Art Dramàtic Adrià Gual, on exerceix de professora, fa d'actriu, de directora i de traductora. També hi estrena tres obres pròpies. En aquesta mateixa etapa és quan apareixen dues novel·les bàsiques en la seva producció, escrites anteriorment, El gust de la pols i Un lloc entre els morts, premi Sant Jordi 1968. Com a assagista, dedica nombro

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Luis de León

A mother bore Luis Ponce de León in 1527.

Luis de León joined Ordo eremitarum sancti Augustini (eremitic order of Saint Augustine) as an Augustinian friar (fray in Spanish). This Spanish lyric poet, theologian, and academic acted during the golden age.

Luis de León together with Francisco de Aldana, Alonso de Ercilla, Fernando de Herrera and Saint John of the Cross ranked as the most important poets of the second phase of the Renaissance in Spain. The desire of the soul to get away from everything earthly to achieve promises, identified with peace and knowledge, of God inspired his work, part of the ascetic literature of the second half of the 16th century. Moral and ascetic themes dominate all his work.

In addition, Gregory XIII oversaw co

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Pedro Salinas

Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University. These were later published under the title Reality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry.
e was born in Madrid in the Calle de Toledo, 1891, in a house very close to the San Isidro church/cathedral. Salinas lived his early years in the heart of the city and went to school first in the Colegio Hispano-Francés and then in the Instituto Nacional de Segunda Enseñanza, both close by the church. His father, a cloth-merchant, died in 1899. He began to study Law at the Universidad central in 1908 and in 1910

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Xosé Miranda

Xosé Miranda Ruiz, nado en Lugo o 18 de decembro de 1955, é un escritor galego.

Licenciado en Bioloxía pola Universidade de Compostela en 1978, na actualidade é profesor de Bioloxía e Xeoloxía no Instituto Xoán Montes de Lugo.

Gañador do premio Modesto R. Figueiredo de 1988 con «Na terra sombría», conta cunha depurada técnica narrativa e cun discurso propio. Investigador da literatura galega de tradición oral publicou numerosas recolleitas de contos e con Antonio Reigosa e Xoán Ramiro Cuba.

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Dámaso Alonso

Poeta, crítico literario y filólogo nacido en Madrid y que perteneció a la generación del 27. Licenciado en Derecho y en Filosofía y Letras.

El nombre de dicha generación surge a raíz de un estudio crítico de la obra de Góngora que hizo a próposito de una edición de Soledades. Dicha edición crítica apareció en el año 1927, cuyo número acabó nombrando a tan fértil generación. Durante sus estudios en Madrid participó en la vida intelectual de la mítica Residencia de Estudiantes dónde llegó a coincidir con Buñuel, Dalí y Lorca, entre otros.

Fue catedrático de la Universidad de Valencia y posteriormente catedrático de Filología Románica en la Universidad de Madrid. En 1945 ingresó en la Real Academia Española, de la que llegó a ser director, y e

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Juana Doña

Juana Doña Jiménez fue una dirigente comunista, feminista, sindicalista y escritora española.

Se afilia a las Unión de Juventudes Comunistas de España en enero de 1933, con sólo 14 años. Es nombrada primero secretaria femenina del Sector Sur y luego secretaria femenina del Comité Central de las Juventudes Comunistas, para más tarde pasar a formar parte de la Agrupación de Mujeres Antifascistas. En 1936, se fue a vivir con Eugenio Mesón, conocido dirigente de la Juventud Socialista Unificada. Tras el golpe de Casado, Eugenio es detenido y encarcelado en San Miguel de los Reyes. Juana marcha a Alicante con su hijo y su hermana para intentar salir del país, siendo apresados y trasladados al campo de concentración de Los Almendros. A finales de

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Joan Maragall

Joan Maragall was a catalan poet, journalist and also translator, the foremost member of the modernism movement in literature in Catalonia. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive of Barcelona.

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Vicente Leñero

Novelist, journalist, and playwright. He has written numerous books, stories, and plays, including a theatrical adaptation of Oscar Lewis's The Children of Sanchez. He was awarded the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in 2001, and the following year he received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes de México (National Prize of Arts and Sciences) for literature and linguistics.

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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (12 April 1539 - 23 April 1616), born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, was a historian and writer from the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. The son of a Spanish conquistador and an Incan noblewoman, he is recognized primarily for his contributions to Incan history, culture, and society. Although not all scholars agree, many consider Garcilaso's accounts the most complete and accurate available. Because there was also a Spanish author named Garcilaso de la Vega, he is more commonly known as El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, or simply El Inca Garcilaso.

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Spanish colonial administrator Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca explored parts of present-day Florida, Texas, and Mexico and aroused interest in the region with his vivid stories of opportunities.

In the New World, he and three other persons survived the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez of 1527. During eight years of traveling across the southwest, he traded and encountered and in faith healed various Native American tribes before he reconnected with forces in 1536. After returning in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La Relación ("The Relation", or in more modern terms "The Account"), retitled Naufragios ("Shipwrecks") in later editions. People ably consider and note Cabeza de Vaca as a proto-anthropologist for his detail

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Juan de Valdés

Juan de Valdés (c.1500 – August 1541) was a Spanish religious writer.

He was the younger of twin sons of Fernando de Valdés, hereditary regidor of Cuenca in Castile, where Valdés was born. He has been confused with his twin brother Alfonso (a courtier of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who attended Charles's coronation in Aachen in 1520 and was Latin secretary of state from 1524). Alfonso died in 1532 at Vienna.

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Dagoll Dagom

Dagoll Dagom fou creada el 1974 per Joan Oller, i s’estrenà amb dos espectacles d’arrel poètica:Yo era un tonto y lo que he visto me ha hecho dos tontos (1974), amb textos de Rafael Alberti, iNocturn per a acordió (1975), amb textos de Joan Salvat-Papasseit. Els seus primers espectacles amb èxit de públic van ser No hablaré en clase (1977), Antaviana (1978) i Nit de Sant Joan(1981). Aquestes obres consagraren la companyia com una aposta diferent dins el panorama del teatre català. A partir d’aleshores la seva carrera, sota la direcció artística de Joan Lluís Bozzo, Anna Rosa Cisquella i Miquel Periel, ha estat fulgurant. Destaquen els musicals Glups!! (1983), El Mikado (1986), Mar i cel (1988/2004/2014), Flor de nit (1992), T’odio, amor meu

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Ramón Gómez de la Serna

Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Puig (July 3, 1888, Madrid - January 13, 1963, Buenos Aires) was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He was especially known for "Greguerías" - a short form of poetry that roughly corresponds to the one-liner in comedy. The Gregueria is especially able to grant a new and often humorous perspective.He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel.

He was a partner of Carmen de Burgos

Gómez de la Serna published over 90 works in all literary genres. In 1933, he was invited to Buenos Aires. He stayed there during the Spanish Civil War and the following Franco regime and died there.

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Julio Ortega

Escritor, crítico peruano y profesor de la Universidad de Brown en Estados Unidos. Autor de "Una poética del cambio" (1992), "El principio radical de lo nuevo" (1997), "Trasatlantic Translations" (2006) y "Rubén Darío y la lectura mutua" (2004), entre otros textos. De su trabajo más reciente destaca "El hacer poético" (2011) en colaboración con María Ramírez Ribes.

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Abelardo Díaz Alfaro

Puerto Rican author who rose to prominence in Latin America in the forties. He was know for his short stories with national topics and political metaphors.

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Gemma Lienas

Gemma Lienas i Massot is a catalan writer. Bachelor of Philosophy and Letters by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, she worked as a professor and editor before she started writing. Since 1985, Gemma Lienas has written and published a great number of literary works for adults, teens and children. One of her most famous characters is Carlota. Other selected novels are: El final del Joc, Atrapada al mirall, and Bitllet d'anada i tornada, each of them centered in a psychological conflict. On the other hand, as an active feminist, she has also written essays about different subjects regarding women.

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Álvaro Cunqueiro

Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora (Mondoñedo, 1911 – Vigo, 1981) se dedicó desde muy joven a la literatura y al periodismo. Su obra abarca todos los géneros y los más diversos temas, desde la poesía al libro de cocina, pasando por la narración y el drama. Dotado de una singular fantasía y de una extraordinaria capacidad de fabulación, Cunqueiro renovó hondamente tanto la literatura gallega como la española.

Su maestría lingüística, su libérrimo uso de las convenciones literarias, el poder que su literatura le asigna a la imaginación, la integración de distintas tradiciones culturales y estilísticas en un todo novedoso y personal hicieron de este célebre autor una de las figuras más importantes de la historia de la literatura gallega que, además, cuenta

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Rado Molina

Rado Molina (alternately known as Radamés Molina Montes or Radamés Molina) is a Cuban-born historian and philosopher with a deep interest in Wittgenstein’s work. After studying History in Cuba and Philosophy in Barcelona, he contributed to an interactive version of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus at the Wittgenstein Archive in Cambridge. Molina’s editorial career includes his tenure at Paidós and the founding of Linkgua, which has published over 2,200 titles.

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Carlos Casares

Carlos Casares Mouriño naceu en Ourense en 1941 e morreu en Vigo en 2002. Escritor e crítico literario, foi unha das personalidades máis importantes da cultura galega das últimas catro décadas. É autor de obras tan significativas como as novelas Ilustrísima e Os mortos daquel verán e os libros de relatos Vento ferido e Os escuros soños de Clío. Dirixiu a editorial Galaxia e a revista Grial ata o seu pasamento.
É de destacar, tamén, o traballo como columnista, principalmente en La Voz de Galicia entre 1992 e 1998, recollido en sete volumes publicados por Galaxia de 2005 a 2008, titulados Á marxe. O ano 2017 dedicóuselle o Día das Letras Galegas.

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Real Academia Española

La Real Academia Española (RAE), fundada en 1713, vela por el buen uso y la unidad de la lengua española, patrimonio común de 500 millones de hispanohablantes.

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Elena Aldunate

María Elena Aldunate Bezanilla, más conocida como Elena Aldunate fue una escritora feminista, cuentista y libretista de radio chilena, perteneciente al grupo de escritoras de la generación del 50. Incursionó en cuento, novela y relato corto dentro de los subgéneros como la ciencia ficción, fantasía, costumbrismo y literatura para niños.
Debutó en el ámbito literario con Candia en 1950, y sus sucesivos tres trabajos abordaron la óptica feminista, hasta que en la década de 1970 incursionó en la ciencia ficción, género en el que se transformó como una de las autoras más prolíficas. En este contexto, es considerada como una de las pioneras de la ciencia ficción chilena junto a Francisco Miralles, Ernesto Silva Román, Luis Enrique Délano y Hugo

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Gabriel Miró

Gabriel Francisco Víctor Miró Ferrer fue un escritor español, encuadrado habitualmente en la llamada generación del 14 o el novecentismo.

Ricardo Gullón ha calificado los relatos de Miró como novelas líricas. Son, por tanto, obras más atentas a la expresión de sentimientos y sensaciones que a contar sucesos, en las que predominan:

- La técnica del fragmentarismo,
- La utilización de la elipsis.
- La estructuración del relato en escenas dispersas, unidas a través de la reflexión y la rememoración.

La temporalidad constituye el tema esencial de la obra del autor alicantino, quien incorpora el pasado a un presente continuado, por medio de las sensaciones, la evocación y el recuerdo. Como, antes que él, hiciera Azorín. También lo sensorial es en la

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Marcial Valladares

Marcial Valladares Núñez, nado en Vilancosta (A Estrada) o 10 de xuño de 1821 e finado no mesmo lugar o 20 de maio de 1903, foi un xornalista, poeta, novelista e lexicógrafo galego. No ano 1970 a Real Academia Galega dedicoulle o Día das Letras Galegas.

Fillo de José Dionisio Valladares Gómez, cursou a carreira de Dereito na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, licenciándose en 1844. Adicouse ao xornalismo e á política, pero en 1866 retirouse ó seu lugar natal para se consagrar ás letras.

Era irmán da escritora Avelina Valladares.

O 'Señor de Vilancosta' foi un dos escritores máis prolíficos do rexurdimento.

Como lexicógrafo, é autor do Diccionario gallego-castellano (1884) con 11.000 vocábulos que recolleu entre 1850 e 1884, ao que incorpor

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Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva

VÍTOR MANUEL DE AGUIAR E SILVA nasceu em 1939, na freguesia de Real, em Penalva do Castelo, Viseu. Licenciou-se em Filologia Românica pela Universidade de Coimbra (1962) e doutorado em Letras pela Universidade de Coimbra. Foi professor catedrático da Universidade de Coimbra até Setembro de 1989, data em que se transferiu para a Universidade do Minho. Nesta Universidade, desempenhou diversos cargos, nomeadamente o de vice-reitor, de 1990 a 2002. Como professor visitante, exerceu funções docentes em várias Universidades estrangeiras. Tem-se dedicado ao estudo da Teoria da Literatura. Os estudos camonianos têm constituído objecto constante da sua actividade de investigador, sendo numerosas as suas publicações nesta área. Foi ainda deputado à A

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Fernando de Rojas

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