Graciela Montes
Argentine writer, editor and translator. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires.
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Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris. From 1957 to 1961 he was a film critic in Buenos Aires for the La Nación newspaper, and he then was editor in chief (1962-69) of the magazine Primera Plana. From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a reporter in Paris. In 1969 Martínez interviewed former Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón, who was exiled in Madrid. These interviews were the basis for two of his more celebrated novels, La Novela de Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995). In 1970 he and many former writers of Primera Plana worked at the magazine Panorama, where Martínez was the director.
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Rafael Bernal
Poeta, maestro, diplomático, dramaturgo, novelista, cuentista, publicista, historiador y guionista de cine, radio y televisión; su obra de teatro "La carta" fue la primera que se transmitió en la televisión mexicana, en 1950, a través de XHTV, Canal 4. Colaboró en revistas literarias, como Lectura, Tiras de colores, América y Hojas de poesía. Fue corresponsal de los periódicos Excélsior y Novedades durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. De Europa pasó a Hollywood, donde escribió guiones para cine. Fue singular devoto del mar y los corsarios que no navegaban. Uno de sus grandes proyectos fue la sistematización sobre la historia del océano Pacífico, que culminó en su obra magna El gran océano. Trabajó en el servicio diplomático, en las embajadas
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a beloved British author, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot, best known for his enchanting and often darkly humorous children's books that have captivated generations of readers around the world. Born in Llandaff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Dahl led a life marked by adventure, tragedy, creativity, and enduring literary success. His vivid imagination and distinctive storytelling style have made him one of the most celebrated children's authors in modern literature.
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Before becoming a writer, Dahl lived a life filled with excitement and hardship. He served as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II, surviving a near-fatal crash in the Libyan desert. His wartime experiences and travels deeply influenced his story -
Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of -
Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.
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José Mauro de Vasconcelos
José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Faculty, José abandoned the course of studies in his second year and returned to Rio de Janeiro.[citation needed] There he worked as a boxing instructor and even as a painter's model.
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José iniciated his literature with the novel Banana Brava. His greatest success was his novel Meu Pé de Laranja Lima, that tells about his own personal experiences and the shocks he suffered in his childhood with the abrupt changes of life.
José was part Indian and part Portuguese. He passed his childhood in Natal. When he was 9 years old, he learned to swim, and with -
Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan novelist, poet, and (above all) short story writer.
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He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.
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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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José Sbarra
Fue maestro normal, periodista, escritor y guionista de la televisión. Publicó varios libros infantiles y juveniles. Después llegaron sus obras más oscuras: Obsesión de vivir, Marc, la sucia rata y Plástico cruel. Falleció el 23 de agosto de 1996, tras padecer HIV.
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Fue un escritor oscuro y nunca masivo. Dejó obras extrañas, entre ellas una novela, Plástico cruel. -
José Hernández
José Hernández (born José Rafael Hernández y Pueyrredón) (November 10, 1834 – October 21, 1886) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.
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Hernández, whose ancestry was a mix of Spanish, Irish, and French, was born on a farm near San Martín (Buenos Aires Province). His father was a butler or foreman of a series of cattle ranches. His career was to be an alternation between stints on the Federal side in the civil wars of Argentina and Uruguay and life as a newspaperman, a short stint as an employee of a commercial firm, and a period as stenographer to the legislature of the Confederation.
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.
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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 -
Ema Wolf
Ema Wolf se graduó en Lenguas y Literaturas Modernas en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Colaboró en distintos medios periodísticos y empezó a publicar textos para chicos a mediados de los años 70.
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Su primer libro, Barbanegra y los buñuelos, apareció 1984 y desde entonces participó activamente en el campo de la literatura para chicos con novelas, cuentos, artículos y conferencias brindadas en Argentina y el exterior. Algunos de sus libros fueron traducidos al holandés, italiano, portugués y alemán.
Su trabajo ha sido ampliamente reconocido. Por Historias a Fernández ganó el Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil 1994 y fue finalista en el Casa de las Américas. En 1994 y 2004 recibió el Konex al mérito. Tres veces fue nominada por la Argentin -
Claudia Piñeiro
Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province.
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Pablo De Santis
A journalist and comic-strip creator who became editor in chief of one of Argentina’s leading comics magazines, Pablo De Santis is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, one work of nonfiction, and a number of books for young adults. His works have been published in more than twenty countries. He lives in Buenos Aires.
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Liliana Bodoc
She majored in Spanish at the University of Cuyo in Mendoza, where she had lived since she was five years old. She worked as a teacher in that area.
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Her first novel, Los Días del Venado, was published in 2000 and was the first installment in a trilogy called La Saga de los Confines. The trilogy met favourable reviews and was awarded several prizes. She has also published the novels Memorias Impuras (2007) and El Espejo Africano (2008).
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Ángeles Mastretta
Ángeles Mastretta es una escritora y periodista mexicana. Es conocida por crear personajes femeninos sugerentes y ficciones que reflejan las realidades sociales y políticas de México. Actualmente está casada con el también escritor y analista político Héctor Aguilar Camín. Sus principales novelas son: Arráncame la vida y Mal de amores.
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Una vez en el Distrito Federal, Mastretta decide estudiar la carrera de periodismo en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, obteniendo ahí el título de Comunicaciones. Se puede situar la entrada de Mastretta a las letras cuando ésta comienza a escribir como colaboradora ocasional en periódicos y revistas de la talla de Excélsior, La Jornada, Proceso (revis -
Aurora Venturini
Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education (Instituto de Psicología y Reeducación del Menor) where she met Eva Perón who was an intimate friend and with whom she worked. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges personally handed her the Initiation Award (Premio Iniciación) for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris, city in which she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution. In Paris she lived in company of Violette Leduc and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco
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María Elena Walsh
Fue una poetisa, escritora, música, cantautora, dramaturga y compositora argentina, que ha sido considerada como "mito viviente, prócer cultural (y) blasón de casi todas las infancias". Por su parte, el escritor Leopoldo Brizuela ha puesto de relieve el valor de su creación diciendo que "lo escrito por María Elena configura la obra más importante de todos los tiempos en su género, comparable a la Alicia de Lewis Carroll o a Pinocchio; una obra que revolucionó la manera en que se entendía la relación entre poesía e infancia.".
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Especialmente famosa por sus obras infantiles, entre las que se destacan el personaje/canción "Manuelita, la tortuga" y los libros "Tutú Marambá", "El reino del revés" y "Dailan Kifki", es también autora de difundidas c -
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.
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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 -
Dolores Reyes
Dolores Reyes nació en 1978 en Buenos Aires, donde estudió literatura clásica. Es profesora, conocida por su activismo feminista y madre de siete hijos.
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Cometierra es su primera novela, que de inmediato se convirtió en un caso editorial y político en Argentina, para luego repuntar también en España. Está dedicado a la memoria de Melina Romero y Araceli Ramos, adolescentes víctimas de feminicidio, cuyos restos reposan en un cementerio cercano a la escuela de Pablo Podestá, en el área metropolitana de Buenos Aires donde trabaja la autora.
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Dolores Reyes was born in 1978 in Buenos Aires, where she studied classical literature. She is a teacher, known for her feminist activism, and a mother of seven children.
Eartheater is her first novel, which -
Vanessa Springora
Vanessa Springora est une éditrice, écrivaine et réalisatrice française. Elle publie, début janvier 2020, l'ouvrage Le Consentement, témoignage de sa relation avec Gabriel Matzneff lorsqu'elle était adolescente.
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César González
César González, aka Camilo Blajaquis (Morón, 1989), es un escritor, poeta y director de cine argentino.
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Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011) fue un destacado escritor, ensayista y físico argentino. Nacido en Rojas, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, estudió física en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y posteriormente trabajó en el laboratorio Curie de París, antes de en 1945 volcarse por completo en la literatura.
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Su vida estuvo marcada por una constante reflexión sobre la condición humana, el arte y los dilemas éticos del siglo XX. Durante la última dictadura militar en Argentina, presidió la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP), que produjo el emblemático informe Nunca Más.
Entre sus obras más destacadas encontramos El túnel (1948), una novela psicológica que explora la alienación y la obsesión; Sobre héroes y tumbas(1961), c