Héctor Abad Faciolince
Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince was born on 1 October 1958 in Medellín, Colombia Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented "post-boom" writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novels Angosta, and more recently, El Olvido que Seremos.
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Germán Castro Caycedo nació en Zipaquirá, una ciudad cercana a Bogotá, en 1940.
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Actualmente es el escritor colombiano de literatura no-ficción más leído en su país. Sus libros alcanzan tirajes que hoy sobrepasan un millón de libros acogidos por el público colombiano. La sólida credibilidad con que goza el autor sumada a la calidad literaria de su trabajo son parte del resultado.
Sus historias cortadas de la realidad son tejidas con base en investigaciones minuciosas y vivencias propias en los lugares donde acontecen los hechos.
Escribe utilizando la misma técnica de la novela en cuanto a estructura, manejo del tiempo dramático, equilibrio en los clímax y todos aquellos factores de la gran narrativa, pero rechaza crear situaciones ficticias.
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Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train, which was made into a major motion picture. Her new novel of psychological suspense, Into The Water, is coming May 2.
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Piedad Bonnett
Poeta, novelista, dramaturga y traductora colombiana nacida en Amalfi, Antioquia, en 1951.
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Es licenciada en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de los Andes, donde ocupa la cátedra de Literatura desde 1981.
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Rupi Kaur
A breakout literary phenomenon and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Rupi Kaur wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first poetry collection, 'milk and honey' in 2014. Next came its artistic siblings 'the sun and her flowers' and ‘home body’, both debuting at #1 on bestseller lists across the world. These collections have sold more than 11 million copies and have been translated into over 43 languages. Most recently in 2022- she released her 4th book ‘Healing Through Words’ which is a journey of guided writing exercises to help the reader explore their creativity.
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As she has done from the very beginning, Rupi self-produced ‘Rupi Kaur Live’, the first poetry special of its kind, which debuted on Amazon Prime Video in 2021.
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Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands an Anglo-French lawyer and writer. He is Professor of Law at University College London and a practicing barrister at Matrix Chambers. He has been involved in many important cases, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Guantanamo and the Yazadis. His books include Lawless World and Torture Team. He is a frequent contributor to the Financial Times, Guardian, New York Review of Books and Vanity Fair, makes regular appearances on radio and television, and serves on the boards of English PEN and the Hay Festival.
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Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé Carbó nació el 8 de enero de 1933 en Barcelona. Publica su primera novela en 1961. En 1961 se traslada a París y trabaja como ayudante de laboratorio junto a Jacques Monod. En 1965 logra el Premio Biblioteca Breve. En 1978 consiguió el Premio Planeta. Sus novelas también han ganado el premio Ciudad de Barcelona, el premio Ateneo de Sevilla, el Premio de la Crítica y el Premio Europa y Rabos de lagartija. En 1997, recibió el Premio Juan Rulfo, máximo galardón de la letras de México, y en 2008, el Premio Cervantes.
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Las obras de Marsé se sitúan en Barcelona, y más en concreto el barrio de El Guinardó, donde pasó su infancia, que coincidió con la posguerra, lo que ha influenciado el modo de escribir del autor a lo largo de toda su vi -
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. Regarded as one of the most important Latin American novelists working today, he is the author of seven novels, two volumes of stories and two books of literary essays, as well as hundreds of pages of political commentary.
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Teolinda Gersão
TEOLINDA GERSÃO nasceu em 1940, em Coimbra. Licenciada em Filologia Germânica e Doutorada em Literatura Alemã, com a tese Alfred Döblin: indíviduo e natureza (1976), pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Foi Assistente na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Professora Catedrática da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Leitora de Português na Universidade de Berlim.
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Autora de vários trabalhos de crítica literária, recebeu duas vezes o prémio de ficção PEN Clube, atribuído ao seu livro de estreia, O Silêncio, em 1981, e ao romance O Cavalo de Sol, em 1989. Foi também galardoada com o Grande Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores em 1995 e, na Roménia, com o Prémio de Teatro Marele do -
Eduardo Caballero Calderón
Eduardo Caballero Calderón (6 March 1910 – 3 April 1993) was a Colombian journalist and writer. As a journalist, he worked for the main Colombian newspapers, including El Tiempo and El Espectador. Also he was a diplomat from Colombia in Peru, Argentina, Spain and France. Caballero was elected as congressman two times for the department of Boyacá and was mayor of Tipacoque.
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Cabellero Calderón began writing in the 1940s and rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. His most known books are El Cristo de espaldas (Backwards Christ) (1952), Siervo sin tierra (Landless Servant) (1954), La penúltima hora (The Hour Before the Last) (1955), and Manuel Pacho (1962), which are mainly depictions of events related to the bipartisan violence in Colombia -
Fernando Soto Aparicio
Fernando Soto Aparicio (October 1, 1933 – May 2, 2016) was a Colombian poet, storyteller, playwright, novelist, librettist, and screenwriter. He was born in Socha, in the Department of Boyacá. Fernando Soto Aparicio spent his childhood in Santa Rosa de Viterbo. He is remembered for the novel The rebellion of the rats. After several decades as a professor at various universities in the country, in 1961 he was exalted with the prize Selecciones Lengua Española, in 1970 he received the Casa de las Américas Prize, and a year later, the prize City of Murcia. In total, he wrote about 70 literary works, among them novels, poems, books of short stories, as well as theatre plays.
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Guillermo Arriaga
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Jonathan Jakubowicz
Jonathan Jakubowicz is Venezuela's most celebrated filmmaker and writer, whose film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards and was a New York Times "Critics' Pick" in 2005. He is Jewish of Polish descent.
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Secuestro Express became the nation's biggest box office hit of all time, which enraged then President Hugo Chavez, whose government opened two trials against Jakubowicz, who was forced to leave Venezuela.
Jakubowicz latest film, Hands of Stone (2016), is about the relationship between Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán (played by Édgar Ramírez) and his trainer Ray Arcel (played by Robert De Niro). Hands of Stone premiered in the Cannes Film Festival 2016 and was warmly received with -
Santiago Gamboa
Born at Bogotá, he studied literature at the Javerian University of Bogotá. He travelled to Spain where he remained until 1990 and graduated in Hispanic Philology at the University of Alcalá de Henares. He then moved to Paris, where he studied Cuban Literature at the Sorbonne.
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He made his debut as a novelist with Páginas de vuelta (1995), a work which established him as one of the most innovative voices of the new Colombian narrative; later he wrote Perder es cuestión de método (1997), which was internationally acclaimed, and has been translated into 17 lenguages, and about which a film is now being made, and Vida feliz de un joven llamado Esteban (2000), a novel which has added to his international prestige. He is the author of the travel b -
Irene Vallejo
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Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas Mena (Ibahernando, provincia de Caceres, 1962) es un escritor y traductor español.
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Hijo de un veterinario rural, cuando contaba cuatro años, en 1966 su familia se trasladó a Tarragona, y allí estudió con los jesuitas. Es primo carnal del político Alejandro Cercas. A los quince años la lectura de Jorge Luis Borges le inclinó para siempre a la escritura. En 1985 se licenció en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y más tarde se doctoró. Trabajó durante dos años en la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana; mientras estaba allí se publicó su primera novela, El móvil, y compuso su segunda novela; desde 1989 es profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Girona. Está casado y tiene un hijo. Se transformó e -
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Líder hispano en medicina funcional y bioquímica nutricional, y un médico apasionado por la salud y la ciencia.
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Pilar Quintana
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Alejandro Mesa
Alejandro Mesa is a business leader and entrepreneur dedicated to creating a better-nourished world. With a career spanning roles at Premex and Schering Plough Corporation, Alejandro has founded and scaled companies across the agribusiness, food, biotechnology, and analytics sectors. He is the CEO of Iluma Alliance and leads a dynamic team of nearly one thousand professionals united by a shared mission to improve global nutrition through technology and innovation. A lifelong learner, Alejandro has completed executive programs at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and Singularity University. He treasures his role as a father to his three daughters who inspire his commitment to leadership, learning, and creating lasting societal impact.
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Melba Escobar
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Isabel Allende
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Amalia Andrade Arango
Escritora, editora e ilustradora ocasional con más de cinco años de experiencia en el campo editorial y creativo. Apasionada por la solución de problemas desde la creatividad, por la lectura, la escritura, el dibujo y el helado (como Dios manda). Tiene además una obsesión por utilizar las herramientas narrativas digitales o impresas para generar contenidos innovadores de alta calidad. Cuando grande quiere ser una mezcla entre Tina Fey y Sylvia Plath.
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Wade Davis
Edmund Wade Davis has been described as "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life's diversity."
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An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among 15 indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6,000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing Passage of Darkness (1988) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986) -
Fernando Savater
Born 21 June 1947, Savater is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author.
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Born in San Sebastián, he was an Ethics professor at the University of the Basque Country for over a decade. Presently he is a Philosophy professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has won several accolades for his literary work, which covers issues as diverse as contemporary ethics, politics, cinema and literary studies. In 1990, Savater and columnist and publisher, Javier Pradera, founded the magazine, Claves de Razón Práctica
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Alfredo Molano Bravo
Alfredo Molano Bravo (n. Bogotá; 1944) es un periodista y escritor colombiano.
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Ha dedicado su vida a los estudios culturales, preocupándose esencialmente por el desentrañamiento de los orígenes y desarrollos de ciertos fenómenos sociales colombianos, en especial de aquellos que tienen su origen en ciertas minorías sociales. La obra de Molano describe sucesos que tienen su escenario en la segunda mitad del siglo XX en el territorio colombiano, haciendo hincapié en cuestiones como la educación y la violencia, así como en la patente diversidad manifiesta en la construcción simbólica que signa la historia del país.
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Ricardo Silva Romero
Estudió Literatura en la Universidad Javeriana desde 1994 hasta 1998. En junio de 2000 recibió el título de Master en cine y televisión de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. En julio de 2000 se convirtió en el comentarista de cine de la revista Semana. En agosto de 2000 se convirtió en colaborador constante de la revista SoHo. Desde 2001 hasta 2009, se descubrió trabajando en textos breves para publicaciones como El Malpensante, Número, A+, Artifex, Cambio, Babelia, El Tiempo, Arcadia, Boletín Bibliográfico y Plan B.
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Ricardo Silva Romero es, hoy, columnista del diario El Tiempo, comentarista de cine de Semana, miembro del consejo editorial de Arcadia, redactor de la sección de televisión de SoHo y colaborador de la revista Credencial. -
Mario Mendoza
Escritor colombiano nacido en Bogotá en 1964, Mario Mendoza es uno de los autores latinoamericanos más influyentes de la actualidad.
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Tras licenciarse en Letras, graduarse en Literatura Hispanoamericana y trabajar como pedagogo, Mendoza decidió iniciar su carrera literaria a partir de 1980, combinando la escritura con la docencia en literatura y la colaboración con diversos medios culturales.
Su primera novela, La ciudad de los umbrales, fue publicada en 1992. Tan sólo dos años más tarde fue galardonado con el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Colombia por La travesía del vidente. Con otra de sus obras, Satanás, se hizo con el Premio Biblioteca Breve de la editorial Seix Barral en 2002.
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Dai Sijie
Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. He grew up working in his fathers tailor shop. He himself became a skilled tailor. The Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his return, he was able to complete high school and university, where he studied art history.
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In 1984, he left China for France on a scholarship. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director. Before turning to writing, he made three critically acclaimed feature-length films: China, My Sorrow (1989) (original title: Chine, ma douleur), Le mangeur de lune and Tang, le onzième. He also wrote and directed an adaptation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002. He li -
David Uclés
DAVID UCLÉS (Úbeda, 1990), licenciado y máster en Traducción e Interpretación por francés, alemán e inglés, es, además, escritor, músico y dibujante. Ha publicado las novelas La península de las casas vacías (Siruela/Premio Cálamo Mejor Libro 2024), Emilio y Octubre (Dos Bigotes) y El llanto del león (Premio Complutense de Literatura). Fue galardonado con las becas Leonardo y Montserrat Roig. En sus obras predomina el realismo mágico.
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Ha trabajado en Alemania, Suiza y Francia, y ha escrito para Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, La Vanguardia, Revista L y Actúa. También ha participado en varios festivales literarios: Centroamérica Cuenta, Festival 42, FLEM, Book Friday y Literaktum, y clausuró la Biennal de Pensament de Barcelona.
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María Dueñas
María Dueñas Vinuesa was born on 1964 in Puertollano, Spain. She has seven siblings. She is a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Murcia, and is also an academic author and has worked at different universities in North America. She came into the spotlight in 2009, achieving great success in Spain thanks to her first novel, El tiempo entre costuras, published in English language as The Time in Between and The Seamstress, a historical espionage novel, which sold more than a million copies. It has already been translated into more than 25 different languages.
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Pilar Quintana
Pilar Quintana is a Colombian writer. She was born in Cali and studied at the Javeriana University in Bogota. She is best known for her novels La Perra, which won the IV Award Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana, and Coleccionistas de polvos raros, which won the La Mar de Letras Award.
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Piedad Bonnett
Poeta, novelista, dramaturga y traductora colombiana nacida en Amalfi, Antioquia, en 1951.
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Es licenciada en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de los Andes, donde ocupa la cátedra de Literatura desde 1981.
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Juan José Millás
Juan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid where he studied Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad Complutense.
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His first novel was influenced by Julio Cortázar and consequently shows the influence of the then-prevalent literary experimentalism, as well as the uncertainty of a fledgling author. Although very original, his second book, Cerbero son las sombras (1975), obtained the Premio Sésamo and received a positive critical response.
Thanks to an enthusiastic member of the judges panel for the Premio Sésamo, Juan García Hortelano, he was able to publish Visión del ahogado (1977) and El jardín vacío (The empty garden) (1981) with the prestigi -
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха).
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Claudia Piñeiro
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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Antonio Muñoz Molina
Antonio Muñoz Molina is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He currently resides in New York City, United States. In 2004-2005 he served as the director of the Instituto Cervantes of New York.
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He was born in the town of Úbeda in Jaén province.
He studied art history at the University of Granada and journalism in Madrid. He began writing in the 1980s and his first published book, El Robinsón urbano, a collection of his journalistic work, was published in 1984. His columns have regularly appeared in El País and Die Welt.
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Guillermo Arriaga
Guillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. He received the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
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Laura Restrepo
Laura Restrepo is a Colombian writer. Her first fiction novel, Isle of Passion, is based on historical facts from Clipperton Island.
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She is an award winning author. In 1997, she won the "Premio Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" prize at the Guadalajara Book Fair for her novel The Angel of Galilea. In 2002 she won the "Premio Arzobispo San Clemente" Award for her novel Leopard in the Sun. In 2004 she won the "VII Premio Alfaguara de Novella" Prize for Delirium. She also won the "Grinzane Cavour" Prize in Italy for best foreign fiction in 2006. In 2007 it was the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her novel Dulce Compañía won the "Prix France Culture" in France. -
Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas Mena (Ibahernando, provincia de Caceres, 1962) es un escritor y traductor español.
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Hijo de un veterinario rural, cuando contaba cuatro años, en 1966 su familia se trasladó a Tarragona, y allí estudió con los jesuitas. Es primo carnal del político Alejandro Cercas. A los quince años la lectura de Jorge Luis Borges le inclinó para siempre a la escritura. En 1985 se licenció en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y más tarde se doctoró. Trabajó durante dos años en la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana; mientras estaba allí se publicó su primera novela, El móvil, y compuso su segunda novela; desde 1989 es profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Girona. Está casado y tiene un hijo. Se transformó e -
Velia Vidal Romero
Escritora. Promotora de lectura. Directora de Motete y de FLECHO (Fiesta de la lectura y la escritura del Chocó. Escritora. Comunicadora Social – Periodista. Especialista en Gerencia Social. Máster en literatura infantil y Promoción de la lectura (En desarrollo). Certificada en estudios afrolatinoamericanos. Ganadora de mención de honor en la primera cohorte del Certificado de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos del Centro de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos de la universidad de Harvard. Primera ganadora de la beca de Publicación de autoras afrocolombianas, negras, raizales o palenqueras del Ministerio de Cultura.
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Andrés Neuman
Hijo de músicos argentinos exiliados (de madre violinista, de origen ítalo-español, y padre oboísta, de origen judío alemán), tiene la ciudadanía argentina y española. La historia novelada de su familia, infancia argentina y ancestros europeos puede leerse en su libro Una vez Argentina. A los catorce años se trasladó a Granada, donde realizó sus estudios secundarios, obtuvo la licenciatura en Filología Hispánica por su Universidad, cursó el doctorado e impartió clases de literatura hispanoamericana.
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Neuman debutó en la literatura como poeta y narrador breve. Su primera publicación fue un cuaderno de poemas titulado Simulacros, aparecido a principios de 1998 en una pequeña editorial de Granada. A finales de 1999 se publicó su primera novela, -
Jorge Franco
Jorge Franco, born in Colombia, studied Film Direction at the London Film School and Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. MALDITO AMOR was his first book of short stories and MALA NOCHE his first novel, both of which received prestigious national awards.
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ROSARIO TIJERAS, published in 1999, has enjoyed spectacular commercial success in Colombia and marked the breakthrough of one of the most promising writers of new Latin American narrative. It is the story of the love triangle between outlaw Rosario and two young men from Colombian high society. Terrorism, violence and narco-trafficking provide a fascinating background to the fast-paced plot. It has recently been made into a major feature film, taking the Colombian box-office b -
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 -
Hernando Téllez
Narrador, periodista y crítico literario colombiano.
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Fue un poeta del ensayo; fue un gran artesano del idioma, maestro en un manejo sobrio y eficaz del lenguaje. Fue un observador sensible de la vida cotidiana, un agudo crítico de la vida social y política del país, junto con Jorge Zalamea, fue uno de los primeros escritores sobre la violencia colombiana. -
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Jacobo Bergareche
Jacobo Bergareche (London, 1976) abandoned his Fine Arts studies in Madrid to study Literature and Writing at Emerson College in Boston. He combines writing with his work as a producer and scriptwriter of series. He is author of the poem collection Playas (2004), the play Coma (2015), the series of children’s books Aventuras en Bodytown (2017), the autobiographical novel about his brother’s murder Estaciones de regreso (2019) and the novel Los días perfectos (Libros del Asteroide, 2021). He lived in Austin, Texas, for four years, and was able to conduct research into the private correspondence of various writers at the Harry Ransom Center; Perfect Days (Los días perfectos) is one of the fruits of that research. He lives in Madrid with his w
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Laura Restrepo
Laura Restrepo is a Colombian writer. Her first fiction novel, Isle of Passion, is based on historical facts from Clipperton Island.
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She is an award winning author. In 1997, she won the "Premio Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" prize at the Guadalajara Book Fair for her novel The Angel of Galilea. In 2002 she won the "Premio Arzobispo San Clemente" Award for her novel Leopard in the Sun. In 2004 she won the "VII Premio Alfaguara de Novella" Prize for Delirium. She also won the "Grinzane Cavour" Prize in Italy for best foreign fiction in 2006. In 2007 it was the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her novel Dulce Compañía won the "Prix France Culture" in France. -
Alonso Sánchez Baute
Alonso Sánchez Baute, abogado de la Universidad Externado de Colombia de Bogotá, desde sus inicios se ha dedicado a trabajar en ámbitos afines a su profesión en el campo de la cultura. Aunque comenzó a escribir en sus ratos libres, su pasión por la literatura pronto se convirtió en una disciplina diaria que lo ha llevado a producir, hasta el momento, tres novelas y una compilación de cuentos cortos, todos inéditos. Al diablo la maldita primavera, obra ganadora del Premio Nacional de Novela Ciudad de Bogotá 2002, es su ópera prima.
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David Bushnell
Bushnell worked as a professor and academic at the University of Delaware and the University of Florida. He taught at the University of Florida from 1963 until his retirement in 1991. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the Hispanic American Historical Review from 1986 to 1991. In 1975 he served as chair of the Conference on Latin American History, the professional organization of Latin American historians affiliated with the American Historical Association.
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Luis de Lión
Born into a Kaqchikel Maya family, his father's work as a policeman during the rule of dictator Jorge Ubico enabled him to receive basic education. He completed his studies in Guatemala City, graduating with a teaching certification in primary education.
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He worked as a teacher in various places in Guatemala until he was made a professor of literature at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. As a leader of the communist Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo ("Guatemalan Workers' Party"), he promoted universal access to quality education as a means to improve the quality of life of the Guatemalan people. In San Juan del Obispo, the village near Antigua Guatemala where he was born, he founded a small library in which he taught literacy to his form -
William Ospina
En 1982 ganó el Premio Nacional de Ensayo de la Universidad de Nariño, Pasto, con el ensayo Aurelio Arturo, la palabra del hombre. En 1986 publicó su primer poemario: Hilo de Arena. El 13 de julio de 1993 fundó -junto a 10 profesionales de distintas áreas- la prestigiosa Revista Número, publicación colombiana de circulación trimestral cuyo propósito es la promoción de la cultura. Fue redactor en la edición dominical de diario La Prensa de Bogotá de 1988 a 1989. Escribió ensayos sobre Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, León Tolstói, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Las mil y una noches, Alfonso Reyes, Estanislao Zuleta, literatura árabe y las brujas de Macbeth. En 1992 obtuvo el primer Premio Nacional de Poesía del Instituto Colombiano de Cultura
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Andrés Neuman
Hijo de músicos argentinos exiliados (de madre violinista, de origen ítalo-español, y padre oboísta, de origen judío alemán), tiene la ciudadanía argentina y española. La historia novelada de su familia, infancia argentina y ancestros europeos puede leerse en su libro Una vez Argentina. A los catorce años se trasladó a Granada, donde realizó sus estudios secundarios, obtuvo la licenciatura en Filología Hispánica por su Universidad, cursó el doctorado e impartió clases de literatura hispanoamericana.
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Neuman debutó en la literatura como poeta y narrador breve. Su primera publicación fue un cuaderno de poemas titulado Simulacros, aparecido a principios de 1998 en una pequeña editorial de Granada. A finales de 1999 se publicó su primera novela, -
Juliana Muñoz Toro
Escritora y periodista bogotana. Estudió la maestría de Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York y es autora de varios libros que combinan las trampas de la memoria con el realismo lírico como "24 señales para descubrir a un alien", "A la sombra de un naranjo", "Diario de dos Lunas", "El vuelo de las jorobadas", "La Quitapenas" y "Albina". También es docente y bordadora de historias.
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Rafael Chaparro Madiedo
Hijo del ingeniero Rafael Chaparro Beltrán y la profesora Amintia Madiedo, pasó su infancia y adolescencia en el barrio Niza, que posteriormente fue tema de varios artículos periodísticos suyos. Estudió en el Colegio Helvetia y en la Universidad de los Andes, en la facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Con dos compañeros, funda allí una revista, Hojalata y conoce a Jorge Mario Eastman, gracias al cual comienza a trabajar como redactor cultural en la revista Consigna. En 1987 se gradúa con una tesis sobre Heidegger. Viaja a Montpellier, y al regresar comienza trabajar en el diario La Prensa.
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En 1989 conoce a Ava Echeverri, su esposa hasta 1993; ese mismo año viaja a Cuba donde asiste al curso de guiones de García Márquez . Al año siguiente Paula Ar -
Leonardo Padura
Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007, he is one of Cuba's best known writers internationally. In English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura. He has written movie scripts, two books of short stories and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages. In 2012, Fuentes was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and the most important award of its kind.
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Leonardo Padura nasceu em Havana, em 1955. Licenciado em Filologia, trabalhou como guionista, jornalista e crítico, tornando-se sobretudo conhecido pela série de romances policiais protagonizados pelo detetive Mario Conde, traduzidos para inúm -
Andrés Caicedo
Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city where he would spend most of his life. Despite his premature death, his work is considered one of the most original in Colombian literature. Caicedo leaded different cultural movements in the city like the literary group "Los Dialogantes" (Those who speak), the Cinema Club of Cali and the "Ojo con el Cine" Magazine (Attention to the Cinema). In 1970 he won the First Literary Contents of Caracas with his work "Los dientes de caperucita" (The Teeth of Little Red Riding Hood) that opened the doors of national recognition for him. Some sources say that he used to say that to live more than 25 years was a shame and it is seen as the main reason of his suicide on March 4, 19
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Margarita Posada Jaramillo
Periodista y escritora. Comparte su vida y su cama con un gran danés. En 2005 publicó su primera novela, De esta agua no beberé (Ediciones B), y en 2008 apareció una segunda: Sin Título, 1977 (Alfaguara). Amante del yoga, la música y la buena mesa, tiene en su haber tres docenas de fracasos amorosos y una hoja de vida algo ecléctica. Trabajó en Casa Editorial El Tiempo, en la Presidencia de la República y en la Revista SoHo (de la cual fue editora de especiales e internacional, así como columnista de sexo, bajo el seudónimo de Conchita). Ha sido jefe de prensa de festivales culturales, editora de portales femeninos, conductora de programas radiales, cronista digital, colaboradora de varios medios como Arcadia, El Malpensante, Semana, Donjua
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Antonio García Ángel
“My main objective in life is to write,” declares Antonio García Ángel. With only one novel to his credit, the 36-year-old author is considered one of Colombia’s best young writers. Much to his delight, he will be working with his literary hero, fellow South America, Mario Vargas Llosa. “Vargas Llosa has already had a fundamental influence on my work,” says García Ángel whose style echoes that of his Peruvian mentor.
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García Ángel’s talent for writing was first recognised at Bogotá’s Pontificia Universidad Javeriana where he received degrees in both literature and communications. Since then, he has taught at the university (1998-2001), worked as a writer and host for Caracol Television, produced two documentaries, written television scripts a -
Evelio Rosero
Evelio Rosero Diago was born in Bogotá, Colombia, on March 20, 1958. He is a Colombian writer and journalist, who reached international acclaim after winning in 2006 the prestigious Tusquets Prize.
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Evelio Rosero studied primary school in Colombia’s southern city of Pasto, and high school in Bogotá, where he later attended Universidad Externado de Colombia obtaining a degree in Journalism. When he was 21, he won Colombia’s Premio Nacional de Cuento del Quindío 1979 (National Short Story Award of Quindío), for his piece Ausentes (The Departed) that was published by Instituto Colombiano de Cultura in the book 17 Cuentos colombianos (17 Colombian Short Stories). In 1982 he was awarded with the Premio Iberoamericano de Libro de Cuentos Netzahualc -
Melba Escobar
Melba Escobar has a column at the Colombian newspapers El Espectador and El País. Her novel House of Beauty was chosen as one of the best books of 2016 by the Colombian National Novel Prize. She lives in Bogotá.
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Antonio Caballero
Escritor y periodista colombiano. En 1984 publicó su novela Sin Remedio, la cual fue ampliamente divulgada. En el ámbito artístico, Caballero expuso su crítica al publicar Paisajes con Figuras en 1997. Igualmente, su pasión por los toros lo llevó a escribir Los Siete Pilares del Toreo en el año 2003.
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Es columnista y caricaturista permanente en la revista Semana, y desde estos espacios de opinión se ha caracterizado como uno de los críticos más agudos de los sucesivos gobiernos de Colombia y de la influencia de Estados Unidos en la política interna colombiana, en especial, a raíz de la llamada "Guerra contra las Drogas". -
Enrique Serrano
Enrique Serrano López is a writer. He is also a communicator and philosopher of the Javeriana, and professor and researcher of the Rosario. Winner, in 1996, of the Juan Rulfo prize awarded by Radio Francia Internacional.
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Fernando Vallejo
Fernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín, Colombia) is a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.
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Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín, though he left his hometown early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Soon after he began new studies on biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, which he finished. Then he spent one year in Italy at the film academy Cinecittá, where he obtained basic notions on cinema.
Vallejo then returned to Colombia with the project of filmmaking. Yet after difficulties with the Colombian Government in producing and, after he prod -
Jorge Fernández Díaz
Jorge Fernández Díaz es un periodista y escritor argentino. En sus novelas aborda temas cotidianos, donde los marginales, los perdedores, los humillados, en la mayoría de los casos, se convierten en protagonistas.
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En 2002 entrevistó durante cincuenta horas a su madre asturiana y con ese material escribió Mamá, una crónica íntima y novelada de una inmigrante. El libro estuvo treinta semanas en las listas de best sellers, agotó veinte ediciones en la Argentina y cinco en España y tuvo lectores como Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Juan José Millás, Joan Manuel Serrat, José Pablo Feinmann, Marcos Aguinis, Jorge Lanata, Juan Cruz Ruiz, entre otros. Por este trabajo recibió la Medalla de la Hispanidad, premio que le entregaron las comunidades españolas y el -
Antoni Bolinches
Antoni Bolinches, licenciado en Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación con grado de licenciado en Psicología y máster en sexualidad humana, es uno de los introductores de la psicología humanista en España.
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Margarida Tengarrinha
MARGARIDA TENGARRINHA nasceu em Portimão, em 7 de Maio de 1928. Iniciou a sua actividade política organizada em 1948, integrada no MUD Juvenil, na Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa (ESBAL). Em meados de 1952 foi expulsa da ESBAL, proibida de frequentar todas as Faculdades do país e impedida de leccionar na Escola Preparatória Paula Vicente, onde era professora, pela sua activa participação na luta pela Paz, pelo desarmamento atómico e contra a reunião ministerial da NATO em Lisboa. Nesse ano tornou-se militante do PCP. Em 1955 passou à militância clandestina do PCP com o seu companheiro José Dias Coelho, que foi assassinado a tiro pela PIDE em 19 de Dezembro de 1961. De 1962 a 1968 trabalhou com Álvaro Cunhal e depois como redactora
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Luísa Costa Gomes
Luísa Costa Gomes nasceu em 16 de Junho de 1954. É licenciada em Filosofia pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Foi por vários anos professora do Ensino Secundário e trabalhou ainda no programa Escritores nas Escolas. Traduziu livros, traduziu e legendou filmes. Tem colaborado em vários jornais e revistas, programas de rádio e televisão.
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A sua obra literária começou com a publicação, em 1981, do livro "Treze Contos de Sobressalto". Desde aí já lá vai dezena e meia de títulos, entre o conto, o romance, o teatro e a crónica, com variados prémios, e traduções no estrangeiro. Várias das suas peças subiram ao palco. Escreveu o libretto de algumas óperas, entre elas o célebre "Corvo Branco", de Philip Glass, com encenação de Robert -
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Efraim Medina Reyes
Es un escritor autor de las novelas Seis informes, Erase una vez el amor pero tuve que matarlo publicada por Editorial Babilonia en el año 2002, Sexualidad de la Pantera Rosa, Técnicas de masturbación entre Batman y Robin, la colección de poemas Pistoleros/Putas y Dementes (Greatest Hits) y el libro de relatos Cinema árbol.
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Sus libros han sido traducidos a varios idiomas. Medina Reyes ha incursionado en el cine escribiendo y dirigiendo las películas "Tres horas mirando un chimpancé" y "Eso no me infla la banana". En su faceta de periodista colabora con revistas como Soho, Trip de Brasil e Internazionale de Italia. Ha sido bajista y autor de todas las canciones de 7 Torpes y con esta banda está próximo a lanzar en Italia lo que el llama un " -
John Gray
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Teresita Goyeneche
Periodista y escritora. Hizo una maestría en escritura creativa en la Universidad de Columbia, y actualmente realiza un doctorado en la City University of New York. Sus textos han aparecido en medios como Vice, Mutante, El Espectador y El Malpensante. En 2022 ganó el Premio Simón Bolívar por la crónica “Volver”.
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Fernando González
Fernando González Ochoa was a Colombian writer and existentialist philosopher known as "el filósofo de Otraparte" (The Philosopher from somewhere else). He wrote about sociology, history, art, moral, economy, epistemology and theology in a magisterial and creative way, using different genres of literature. González is considered one of the most original writers of Colombia during the 20th century. His ideas were controversial and had a great influence in the Colombian society at his time and today. The González work was the inspiration of Nadaism, a literary movement founded by one of his disciple, Gonzalo Arango. The Otraparte Villa, his house in Envigado, is today a museum and the headquarters of the cultural foundation to preserve and pr
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David Sanchez Juliao
David Sánchez Juliao was a Colombian author, journalist, storyteller and diplomat.
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Sánchez Juliao was born in Lorica. He was the Colombian ambassador to India during the César Gaviria administration and ambassador to Egypt during the Ernesto Samper administration. Among his most important works are: El pachanga, El flecha, El flecha II el retorno (2006), Abraham al humor, Fosforito, Historias de Racamandaca y Dulce Veneno Moreno.
Sanchez Juliao's works have been translated into 15 languages and received a number of literary prizes. Sánchez Juliao's works provide an outline of the culture of Colombia's North Coast, and the Córdoba region specifically.
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Álvaro González Alorda
Álvaro González Alorda es profesor y director del Área de Innovación de ISEM Fashion Business School, profesor asociado del Instituto de Empresa y profesor visitante de otras nueve escuelas de negocio en España y América.Es licenciado en Comunicación por la Universidad de Navarra, PDD por IESE Business School y ha realizado una estancia de investigación en Harvard Business School.Actualmente trabaja con el profesor del IESE Luis Huete impartiendo conferencias y seminarios a empresas, y también como consultor y facilitador de equipos de dirección.Ha colaborado con más de 60 empresas nacionales e internacionales y ha centrado su investigación en innovación y trasformación de empresas mediante el rediseño del modelo de negocio.
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Toni Nadal
Antonio Nadal Homar es un entrenador y preparador físico de tenis español.
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Ha entrenado, desde el inicio de su carrera hasta 2017, a su sobrino el jugador de tenis profesional Rafael Nadal.
Aparte de su capacitación deportiva, cursó estudios de Geografía e Historia y Derecho –inacabados–. Es padre de tres hijos. -
Qais Akbar Omar
Qais Akbar Omar (first name pronounced "Kice") is the author of A Fort of Nine Towers, which has been published in more than twenty languages, and the co-author of A Night in the Emperor’s Garden, which has been dramatized by BBC Radio. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times, The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, and he has published essays and short stories in The Southern Review, AGNI, The Hopkins Review, The Markaz Review, Guernica, Arrowsmith, Literary Hub, American Chordata, and elsewhere.
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Omar was born in 1982 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He holds a BA in journalism from Kabul University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, and he was a Scholars at Risk Fellow -
Isabel Allende Bussi
María Isabel Allende Bussi (1945, Chile) es una socióloga y política socialista chilena. Ha desarrollado su carrera política a nivel internacional, parlamentario y partidario.
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Josep Pla
Josep Pla i Casadevall (known as José Pla in Spanish) (March 8, 1897, Palafrugell, Girona - April 23, 1981, Llofriu, Girona) was a Catalan journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan.
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The most important characteristics of the “planian” style are simplicity, irony, and clarity. His works show a subjective and colloquial view, “anti-literary”, in which he stresses, nevertheless, an enormous stylistic effort by calling things by their names and “coming up with the precise adjective”, one of his most persistent literary obsessions.
Pla lived completely dedicated to writing. The extent of his Obres Completes - Complete Wor -
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio
Escritor y periodista costeño, cuentista y novelista, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio hizo los estudios secundarios en el Colegio Americano de Barranquilla, y en 1949 viajó a Estados Unidos a estudiar periodismo en la Universidad de Columbia, en Nueva York. En 1951 regresó a Barranquilla, y trabajó como corresponsal de The Sporting News. En 1955 se casó con Teresita Manotas. Como periodista y gran apasionado de los deportes, cubrió eventos deportivos para el periódico El Nacional; en 1951 tuvo una columna en la página editorial de El Heraldo, titulada "La brújula de la cultura"; y fue director del Diario del Caribe. Participó, como guionista y actor, en el cortometraje La langosta azul, al igual que en otras películas cortas y en un noticiero de cine
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Carolina Sanín
Es licenciada de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de los Andes y PhD en literatura española y portuguesa de la Universidad de Yale.
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Fue profesora del Purchase College de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York y es profesora de la Universidad de los Andes.
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Óscar Pantoja
Óscar Pantoja (1971) es un escritor que, además de sus novelas, es reconocido por sus guiones para cómics. Ha escrito los guiones de las novelas gráficas Gabo: memorias de una vida mágica, Borges: el laberinto infinito, Rulfo: una vida gráfica, Tanta sangre vista y La Vorágine, así como de los cómics Tumaco y Cómbita.
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Juan Carlos Rincón Escalante
Juan Carlos Rincón Escalante (Cúcuta, Colombia, 1991) es periodista, abogado y escritor. Su libro, La depresión (no) existe, ha vendido más de 10.000 ejemplares y ha sido publicado en varios países, incluyendo España. Vive con sus dos gatas, para las que trabaja día y noche.
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Roberto Casati
Roberto Casati è un filosofo italiano. Direttore di Ricerca al Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) all'Institut Nicod, École normale supérieure di Parigi, è autore di saggi specialistici e di divulgazione, e ha insegnato in diverse università europee e statunitensi.
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Adolfo Macías Huerta
Novelista de nacionalidad ecuatoriana. Su pasión por la lectura comienza a los trece años cuando de forma circunstancial da con el libro Damián, novela que lo conmociona al sentirse identificado con el personaje. Ahí es cuando se enciende su pasión por la Literatura. La posibilidad de crear personajes no solo memorables sino que impacten emocionalmente al lector y le permitan sentirse igual que el protagonista. Sus tempranas influencias literarias fueron Herman Hesse, Jorge Luis Borges y Ernesto Sábato.
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Jennifer Thorndike
Jennifer Thorndike was born in Lima, Peru in 1983. She is a writer and scholar. She received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She has published the novels (Ella) (2012), Esa muerte existe (2016) and the short story books Cromosoma Z (2007) and Antifaces (2015). He has participated in several anthologies both Peruvian and Latin American. Her stories have been translated into Portuguese, French and English. In 2016 was chosen by FIL-Guadalajara as one of the most outstanding Latin American writers born during the 80s. She currently lives and teaches literature in Illinois.
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Jennifer Thorndike nació en Lima, Perú en 1983. Es escritora y académica. Se doctoró en Estudios Hispánicos en la Universidad