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Juan Calzadilla

Juan Calzadilla was a Venezuelan poet, painter, and art critic.

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Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in 1904 in Parral, Chile, was a poet, diplomat, and politician, widely considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. From an early age, he showed a deep passion for poetry, publishing his first works as a teenager. He adopted the pen name Pablo Neruda to avoid disapproval from his father, who discouraged his literary ambitions. His breakthrough came with Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, 1924), a collection of deeply emotional and sensual poetry that gained international recognition and remains one of his most celebrated works.
Neruda’s career took him beyond literature into diplomacy, a path that a

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Mario Bellatin

Mario Bellatin grew up in Peru as the son of Peruvian parents. He spent two years studying theology at the seminary Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo and graduated from the University of Lima. In 1987, Bellatin moved to Cuba, where he studied screenplay writing at the International Film School Latinoamericana. On his return to Mexico in 1995, he became the director of the Department of Literature and Humanities at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana and became a member of the National System of Creators of Mexico from 1999 to 2005. He is currently the director of the School of Writers Dynamics in Mexico City.

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Reinaldo Arenas

Arenas was born in the countryside, in the northern part of the Province of Oriente, Cuba, and later moved to the city of Holguín. In 1963, he moved to Havana to enroll in the School of Planification and, later, in the Faculty of Letters at the Universidad de La Habana, where he studied philosophy and literature without completing a degree. The following year, he began working at the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí. While there, his talent was noticed and he was awarded prizes at Cirilo Villaverde National Competition held by UNEAC (National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists). His Hallucinations was awarded "first Honorable Mention" in 1966 although, as the judges could find no better entry, no First Prize was awarded that year.

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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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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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Benito Pérez Galdós

People know Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós especially for his Episodios Nacionales (1873-1912), a series of 46 historical novels.

Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th century Spain.

Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and galdosistas (Galdós researchers) considered him Spain's equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. As recently as 1950, few of his works were available translated to English, although he has slow

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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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Miguel Ángel Asturias

Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967. Asturias's writings combine the mysticism of the Maya with epic impulse toward social protest. His most famous novel is EL SEÑOR PRESIDENTE (1946), about life under the rule of a ruthless dictator. Asturias spent much of his life in exile because of his public opposition to dictatorial rule.

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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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Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski was a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

The Zagajeski family was expelled from Lwów by the Ukrainians to central Poland in 1945.
In 1982 he emigrated to Paris, but in 2002 he returned to Poland, and now resides in Kraków.
His poem "Try To Praise The Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the 9/11 attacks.

He is considered a leading poet of the Generation of '68, or Polish New Wave (Polish: Nowa fala), and one of Poland's most prominent contemporary poets.

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Antonio Porchia

Antonio Porchia was an Italian poet. He was born in Conflenti (Italy) but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina. He wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces ("Voices"), a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into English (by W.S. Merwin), French, and German. A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer, he has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz and Henry Miller, amongst others. Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese Haiku and found many similarities with a number of Zen schools of thought.

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Alfredo Silva Estrada

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Juan Calzadilla

Juan Calzadilla was a Venezuelan poet, painter, and art critic.

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Sergio Chejfec

Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. From 1990 to 2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York University.

Chejfec has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. His works include Lenta biografía (1990), Los planetas (1999), Boca de lobo (2000), Los incompletos (2004), Baroni: un viaje (2007), Mis dos mundos (2008), and La experiencia dramática (2012). He has been compared to Juan José Saer, which he finds flattering but not accurate. His novels usually feature a slow-paced narration that interweaves a minimal plot wi

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Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican writer and one of the best-known novelists and essayists of the 20th century in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.

Fuentes was born in Panama City, Panama; his parents were Mexican. Due to his father being a diplomat, during his childhood he lived in Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. In his adolescence, he returned to Mexico, where he lived until 1965. He was married to film star Rita Macedo from 1959 till 1973, although he was an habitual philanderer and allegedly, his affairs - which he claimed include film actresses such as Jeanne Moreau and Je

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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the American Book Award and the MacArthur “Genius Grant," he has also worked as a line cook, tobacco harvester, nursing home volunteer, and fast-food server, the latter becoming inspiration for The Emperor of Gladness. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City.

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Sándor Márai

Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
He wrote very enthusiastically about the Vienn

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Mariana Enriquez

Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es una periodista y escritora argentina.

Se recibió de Licenciada en Comunicación Social en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Se ha desempeñado profesionalmente como periodista y columnista en medios gráficos, como el suplemento Radar del diario Página/12 (donde es sub-editora) y las revistas TXT, La mano, La mujer de mi vida y El Guardián. También participó en radio, como columnista en el programa Gente de a pie, por Radio Nacional.

Trabajó como jurado en concursos literarios y dictó talleres de escritura en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez
Mariana Enriquez is a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and has published two story collections in English,

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Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

[Caracas, 1962]. Poeta, ensayista, profesor e investigador universitario. Ha publicado en Caracas los libros de poesía Al margen de las hojas [1991]; De espaldas al río [1999]; Pasado en limpio [2006] y Cuidados intensivos [2014]. Publicó en México Principios de contabilidad [2000] y en Madrid El cangrejo ermitaño. Antología poética [2020]. Entre sus libros de ensayos, investigación literaria y antologías publicadas en Venezuela, se cuentan Lecturas desplazadas. Encuentros hispanoamericanos con Cervantes y Góngora [2009]; Itinerarios de la ciudad en la poesía venezolana. Una metáfora del cambio [2010] y Formas en fuga. Antología poética de Juan Calzadilla [2011]. Las palabras necesarias. Muestra antológica de poesía venezolana del siglo XX

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María Teresa Andruetto

María Teresa Andruetto nació en Córdoba en 1954. Es una de las escritoras argentinas más prestigiosas y si bien es reconocida principalmente por su obra para niños y jóvenes, también tiene una voluminosa obra publicada para adultos. Cofundó CEDILIJ, Centro de Difusión e Investigación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil. Como parte de su obra podemos citar Sueño Americano (Caballo negro editora, 2009), Tendedero (CILC, 2009), la obra de teatro Enero (Ferreyra editor, 2005) y numerosos libros para niños y jóvenes, entre otros El anillo encantado (Sudamericana, 1993), Huellas en la arena (Sudamericana,1998), La mujer vampiro (Sudamericana, 2000), Benjamino (Sudamericana, 2003), Trenes (Alfaguara, 2007), El país de Juan (Anaya, 2003/Aique 2010), C

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Juan Sánchez Peláez

Juan Sánchez Peláez was a Venezuelan poet and National Prize winner for Literature in 1975. Attended university in Santiago, Chile where he befriended the poets of the surrealist group Mandrágora. He published his first poems in their magazine and it was through this encounter that his lifelong interest in surrealism began. Upon returning to Caracas, he published Elena y los elementos in 1951. Elena y los elementos had a profound effect on Venezuelan poetry, outlining a distinctly Venezuelan form of surrealism that influenced the generation of avant-garde poets who emerged in the 1960s. This book was published in a fiftieth anniversary edition by Monte Ávila Editores after he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universida

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Layla Martínez

De ascendencia conquense, nació en 1987 en Madrid. Se licenció en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y posteriormente realizó un máster en Sexología en la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

En 2012 publicó el libro de poemas El libro de la crueldad; en 2015 lanzó Las canciones de los durmientes. En el año 2018 ganó el III premio de la Facultad de poesía José Ángel Valente por su obra Cineraria.

En el 2020 publicó el ensayo Utopía no es una isla, que reflexiona sobre cómo la forma en la que la sociedad imagina el futuro está fuertemente asociada a los productos culturales que esta consume.

En 2021 publicó su novela Carcoma, que trata temas como la violencia de género y de clase dentro de un contexto de terror que usa de

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Daniel Saldaña París

DANIEL SALDAÑA PARÍS (Ciudad de México, 1984) escribe narrativa y poesía. Es autor del libro de poemas La máquina autobiográfica (Bonobos Editores, 2012) y de la novela En medio de extrañas víctimas (Sexto Piso, 2013). Ha sido becario del FONCA en los programas Jóvenes Creadores (2006-2007) y Residencias Artísticas (2012), así como de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (2007-2009). En 2012 antologó y prologó Doce en punto. Poesía chilena reciente y Un nuevo modo. Antología de narrativa mexicana actual, ambos publicados por la UNAM. En 2014 fue escritor en residencia en Ledig House-OMI International Arts Center (Nueva York).

Fue elegido por el Hay Festival, el British Council y Conaculta como uno de los 20 escritores menores de 40 años pa

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Fernanda Melchor

Nací en el puerto de Veracruz. Escribí el libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami y las novelas Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Páradais.

I was born in Veracruz, Mexico. I wrote the non-fiction book Aquí no es Miami and the novels Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Paradais.

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Hiram Ruvalcaba

Es licenciado en letras hispánicas por la Universidad de Guadalajara e ingeniero ambiental por el Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Guzmán, además de maestro en estudios de Asia y África por El Colegio de México. Ha sido becario del Programa de Estímulos a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico en Jalisco en la categoría Jóvenes Creadores. En 2016 fue ganador del Premio Nacional de Narrativa Mariano Azuela. Ha publicado los libros de cuentos El espectador (2013) y Me negarás tres veces (2017), así como, en colaboración con Sandra Ruiz, la antología Kwaidan. Extrañas narraciones del Japón antiguo

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Elaine Vilar Madruga

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Dahlia de la Cerda

Nació, creció y vive actualmente en la Ciudad de Aguascalientes. Estudió la licenciatura en Filosofía. Ha sido empleada de un call-center, un bar y una fábrica de dulces. Ha trabajado como editora de noticias internacionales y como vendedora de Avón, rosas negras en la calle y de ropa de segunda en un tianguis. En 2009 ganó el certamen literario Letras de la Memoria, convocado por el Centro Cultural Los Arquitos. En 2015 fue becaria del Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico de Aguascalientes (PECDA). Fue beneficiaria del Programa Jóvenes Creadores del Fonca en las emisiones 2016 y 2018. Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala 2019. Ha participado en las antologías Mexicanas. Trece narrativas contemporáneas

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Beatriz Serrano

Beatriz Serrano es Licenciada en Periodismo por la Universidad Complutense. Ha desarrollado su carrera en el periodismo digital, especializándose en nuevas narrativas. Ha escrito para medios como BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, SModa o Vogue. Actualmente, trabaja en El País. Además, junto al escritor Guillermo Alonso, codirige el pódcast Arsénico Caviar, que fue galardonado con el premio Ondas en la categoría de mejor conversacional.

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Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

[Caracas, 1962]. Poeta, ensayista, profesor e investigador universitario. Ha publicado en Caracas los libros de poesía Al margen de las hojas [1991]; De espaldas al río [1999]; Pasado en limpio [2006] y Cuidados intensivos [2014]. Publicó en México Principios de contabilidad [2000] y en Madrid El cangrejo ermitaño. Antología poética [2020]. Entre sus libros de ensayos, investigación literaria y antologías publicadas en Venezuela, se cuentan Lecturas desplazadas. Encuentros hispanoamericanos con Cervantes y Góngora [2009]; Itinerarios de la ciudad en la poesía venezolana. Una metáfora del cambio [2010] y Formas en fuga. Antología poética de Juan Calzadilla [2011]. Las palabras necesarias. Muestra antológica de poesía venezolana del siglo XX

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Juan Sánchez Peláez

Juan Sánchez Peláez was a Venezuelan poet and National Prize winner for Literature in 1975. Attended university in Santiago, Chile where he befriended the poets of the surrealist group Mandrágora. He published his first poems in their magazine and it was through this encounter that his lifelong interest in surrealism began. Upon returning to Caracas, he published Elena y los elementos in 1951. Elena y los elementos had a profound effect on Venezuelan poetry, outlining a distinctly Venezuelan form of surrealism that influenced the generation of avant-garde poets who emerged in the 1960s. This book was published in a fiftieth anniversary edition by Monte Ávila Editores after he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universida

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