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Julio Ramón Ribeyro

Julio Ramón Ribeyro Zúñiga was a Peruvian writer best known for his short stories. He was also successful in other genres: novel, essay, theater, diary and aphorism. In the year of his death, he was awarded the Premio Juan Rulfo de literatura latinoamericana y del Caribe. His work has been translated into numerous languages, including English.

The characters in his stories, often autobiographical and usually written in simple but ironic language, tend to end up with their hopes cruelly dashed. But despite its apparent pessimism, Ribeyro's work is often comic, its humor springing from both the author's sense of irony and the accidents that befall his protagonists. The collective work of his short stories is published under the title La palabr

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José Luis González

José Luis González was a Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, short story writer, university professor, and journalist who lived most of his life in exile in Mexico due to his pro-independence political views. He is considered to be one of the most important Puerto Rican authors of the 20th century, particularly for his book Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country and Other Essays, which was first published in Spanish in 1980.

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Agustina Bazterrica

Agustina Bazterrica nació en Buenos Aires, en 1974. Es Licenciada en Artes (UBA). Ganó el Primer Premio Municipal de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Cuento Inédito 2004/5 y el Primer Premio en el XXXVIII Concurso Latinoamericano de Cuento “Edmundo Valadés”, Puebla, México, 2009, entre otros. Tiene cuentos y poesías publicados en antologías, revistas y diarios. Escribe reseñas y artículos para distintos medios. En 2013 publicó su novela Matar a la niña (Textos Intrusos). Es co-coordinadora del Ciclo de Arte Siga al Conejo Blanco.

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Jonathan Nolan

Jonathan Nolan is a British-American author and screenwriter. His short story „Memento Mori“ (Latin for remember you will die) was used by his brother, director Christopher Nolan, as the basis for the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Memento. He has also co-written the screenplays for The Prestige and The Dark Knight, with his brother. He recently created the CBS drama Person of Interest. He has also been credited under his nickname of Jonah.

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Rosario Ferré

Rosario Ferré was born in Puerto Rico, where her father served as governor. She was best known for her novels and short stories. In 1992, Ferré was awarded the Liberatur Prix award at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the German translation of her novel Sweet Diamond Dust. She was a finalist for the National Book Award for her novel The House on the Lagoon in 1995.

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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.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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.
Hernán

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Marcela Paz

Marcela Paz was the pen name of Esther Huneeus Salas de Claro, a Chilean writer. She also used the pen names of Paula de la Sierra, Lukim Retse, P. Neka and Juanita Godoy.

She began publishing in magazines such as El Peneca, Ecran, Zig-Zag, Eva and Margarita, and newspapers like La Nación, El Mercurio and La Tercera. In 1933 she published her first book: Tiempo, papel y lápiz.

In 1947 Paz published the first book with her most famous character, Papelucho. Papelucho became a companion and an inspiration to generations of children and perhaps one of Chile's most well known humanized characters of the twentieth century. Between 1964 and 1967, she directed the Asociación Internacional del Libro Juvenil (IBBY).

In 1968 she received the Hans Christi

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Quino

QUINO, Joaquín Salvador Lavado, nace, hijo de inmigrantes españoles, andaluces, en la ciudad de Mendoza (Argentina) el 17 de julio aunque en los registros oficiales conste nacido el 17 de agosto. Desde que nació se lo llamó Quino para distinguirlo de su tío Joaquín Tejón, pintor y dibujante publicitario con quien a los 3 años descubre su vocación.
Comienza la escuela primaria donde descubre que su verdadero nombre es Joaquín y vive las dificultades de su personaje Felipe: «Me angustiaba tanto que en los primeros tres meses tenía malas notas, pero después terminaba el año con notas altas, aunque nunca era el primer alumno y eso me daba bronca».

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Micaela Chirif

Micaela Chirif is a poet and writer for children. She graduated in Philosophy from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and is currently pursuing a Master in books and literature for children and youth in the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Her children books have received numerous awards, most notably, the prestigious White Ravens Award.

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Uriel Reyes

Uriel Reyes (1984) nació en Tijuana, Baja California. De niño aprendió a comprender el lenguaje de las películas de terror que encontraba en la televisión abierta estadounidense, aunque aún no entendía el idioma. Estudió Comunicación en la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California y, posteriormente, se inspiró en los programas de radio que escuchaba en las madrugadas de insomnio, en las historias de fantasmas y en una grabación de Juan Rulfo leyendo un cuento de El llano en llamas para crear Relatos de la Noche, un podcast con el que se ha convertido en una de las voces más escuchadas de habla hispana en el mundo.

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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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Miguel Otero Silva

Miguel Otero Silva (October 26, 1908 - August 28, 1985), was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, humorist and politician. Remaining a figure of great reference in Venezuelan literature, his literary and journalistic works were strictly related to the social and political history of Venezuela. Before the establishment of democracy in 1958, he was repeatedly forced into exile; afterwards, he was elected to the Venezuelan Senate.

Born in Barcelona, Anzoátegui State, moved to Caracas at very young age, to study in the Liceo Caracas. He applied to the Universidad Central de Venezuela for studies in civil engineering. During this time, takes place his early literary activity, writing for magazines and newspapers, such as Élite and Fantoches, and othe

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Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485–1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Stendhal

Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).

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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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Juan Rulfo

Juan Perez Rulfo

Juan Rulfo nació el 16 de mayo de 1917 Él sostuvo que esto ocurrió en la casa familiar de Apulco, Jalisco, aunque fue registrado en la ciudad de Sayula, donde se conserva su acta de nacimiento. Vivió en la pequeña población de San Gabriel, pero las tempranas muertes de su padre, primero (1923), y de su madre poco después (1927), obligaron a sus familiares a inscribirlo en un internado en Guadalajara, la capital del estado de Jalisco.

Durante sus años en San Gabriel entró en contacto con la biblioteca de un cura (básicamente literaria), depositada en la casa familiar, y recordará siempre estas lecturas, esenciales en su formación literaria. Algunos acostumbran destacar su temprana orfandad como determinante en su vocación artí

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Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.

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Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in the medieval centre of Bilbao, Basque Country, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo. As a young man, he was interested in the Basque language, and competed for a teaching position in the Instituto de Bilbao, against Sabino Arana. The contest was finally won by the Basque scholar Resurrección María de Azcue.

Unamuno worked in all major genres: the essay, the novel, poetry and theatre, and, as a modernist, contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries between genres. There is some debate as to whether Unamuno was in fact a member of the Generation of '98 (an ex post facto literary group of Spanish intellectuals and philosophers that was the creation of José Martínez Ruiz — a group that includes An

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Anton Chekhov

Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.

Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.

"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867

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Amparo Dávila

Amparo Dávila born 1928 in Zacatecas, Mexico is a Mexican author. Dávila was the sole surviving child of her parents. The oldest son died at childbirth. The next son died as a result of meningitis, and the last son died during his infancy. She learned to love reading at an early age from spending time in her father's library. Her childhood was marked by fear, a theme that appeared in a number of her future works as an author. Her first published work was Salmos bajo la luna in 1950. This was followed by Meditaciones a la orilla del sueno and Perfil de soledades. She then moved to Mexico City where she worked as Alfonso Reyes's Secretary. In 1966 she was a part of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores (Mexican Writer's Center) where she received

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.

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José Emilio Pacheco

José Emilio Pacheco Berny fue un poeta y ensayista mexicano nacido en Ciudad de México en 1939.

Empezó a brillar desde muy joven en el panorama cultural mexicano, gracias a su dominio de las formas clásicas y modernas y al enfoque universal de su poesía.

Además de poeta y prosista se ha consagrado también como eximio traductor, trabajando como director y editor de colecciones bibliográficas y diversas publicaciones y suplementos culturales. Ha sido docente universitario e investigador al servicio de entidades gubernamentales.

Entre sus galardones se cuentan: Premio Nacional de Poesía, Premio Nacional de Periodismo Literario, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Premio Magda Donato, Premio José Asunción Silva en 1996,el Premio Octavio Paz en el año 2003

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Roberto Bolaño

For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher, a campground custodian, bellhop and garbage collector — working during the day and writing at night.

He continued with his poetry, before shifting to fiction in his early forties. In an interview Bolaño stated that he made this decision because he felt responsible for the future financial well-being of his family, which he knew he could never secure from the earnings of a poet. This was confirmed by Jorge Herralde, who explained that Bolaño "aband

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Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.

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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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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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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.

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

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genèv

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Roberto Arlt

Roberto Arlt was an Argentine writer born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His parents were both immigrants: his father Karl Arlt was a Prussian from Posen (now Poznan in present-day Poland) and his mother was Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer, a native of Trieste and Italian speaking. German was the language commonly used at their home. His relationship with his father was stressful, as Karl Arlt was a very severe and austere man, by Arlt's own account. The memory of his oppressive father would appear in several of his writings. For example, Remo Erdosain (a character at least partially based on Arlt's own life) often recalls his abusive father and how little if any support he would give him. After being expe

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Alberto Blest Gana

Fue un novelista y diplomático chileno, considerado el padre de la novela chilena. Se le considera pionero en Iberoamérica de la novela realista, en la misma cuerda de Balzac y Stendhal. Su producción temprana está empalmada con la tradición romántica. Mantuvo apego por argumentos de tema sentimental, pero con tratamientos que hacen énfasis en la observación social y psicológica. En sus principales obras la trama, imbuida en la "pequeña historia", se enlaza habitualmente con un momento clave de la historia de Chile (en muchos casos, historia reciente para aquel entonces). Escribió novelas realistas en castellano bastante antes de que también así lo hiciera, por ejemplo, Benito Pérez Galdós. Blest Gana también incursionó en poesía, artículos

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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.
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).
She died unexpectedly in Mendoza after returning from an event at the Havana Book Fair (Feria del Libro de La Habana).

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Baldomero Lillo

Cuentista chileno, considerado el maestro del género del realismo social en su país. Una de sus obras más famosas es Subterra, que retrata la vida de los mineros del carbón de Lota, y en particular en la mina Chiflón del Diablo.

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.

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Alejandro Casona

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

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D.C. Talk

Formed in 1987 by Toby McKeehan, Michael Tait, and Kevin Max Smith, DC Talk was one of the most popular bands throughout the 1990's. Together the band has released five studio albums: DC Talk (1989), Nu Thang (1990), Free at Last (1992), Jesus Freak (1995), Supernatural (1998), and Solo (2001). The group unofficially disbanded in 2000, with each member attempting their own solo projects. Ever since, DC Talk has been on hiatus indefinitely, and they have yet to officially break up or reunite.

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Deborah Noyes

Deb writes for adults and children and is also an editor and photographer. She lives in Massachusetts with her family.

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the '60s and '70s as a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and western life but also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.

Her reports as to the purportedly healthy attitude towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the '60s "sexual revolution" and it was only at the end of her life and career that her propositions were – albeit controversially – challenged by a maverick fellow anthropologist and literate members of societies she had long before studied and reported on. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a

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Amparo Dávila

Amparo Dávila born 1928 in Zacatecas, Mexico is a Mexican author. Dávila was the sole surviving child of her parents. The oldest son died at childbirth. The next son died as a result of meningitis, and the last son died during his infancy. She learned to love reading at an early age from spending time in her father's library. Her childhood was marked by fear, a theme that appeared in a number of her future works as an author. Her first published work was Salmos bajo la luna in 1950. This was followed by Meditaciones a la orilla del sueno and Perfil de soledades. She then moved to Mexico City where she worked as Alfonso Reyes's Secretary. In 1966 she was a part of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores (Mexican Writer's Center) where she received

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Paul Alexander

Besides the bestselling Kindle Singles Murdered, Accused, and Homicidal, Paul Alexander has published eight previous books of nonfiction: Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plath; Rough Magic, a biography of Plath; Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean, the bestseller that has been published in 10 countries; Death and Disaster: The Rise of the Warhol Empire and the Race For Andy’s Millions; Man of the People: The Life of John McCain; The Candidate, a chronicle of John Kerry’s presidential campaign; and Machiavelli’s Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove.

A former reporter for Time, Alexander has published journalism in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York, The Nation, The Village Voic

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Edgar Allan Poe

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre c

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Pepita Sandwich

Ilustradora, animadora e historietista.

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Hernán del Solar

Realizó sus estudios en el Colegio San Juan Bautista de la Salle. En 1920 comienza a trabajar en la revista Zig Zag donde llega a ser Secretario de redacción y jefe del departamento editorial. En 1928 funda la revista Letras, junto a Salvador Reyes, Luis Enrique Délano y otros escritores de la corriente imaginista.1

Fue asesor literario de la revista Ercilla (1935) y de la editorial Nascimento. En 1946 funda, con el escritor Francesc Trabal, la editorial Rapa Nui, destinada a la publicación de libros para niños. Trabajó en las revistas Atenea, Excelsior, Pro Arte, La Semana y La Quincena, también en los diarios El Debate y Olimpia de Buenos Aires. Tuvo a su cargo la revista Hoy. Fue crítico literario en los diarios chilenos El Mercurio y La

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Mariano Azuela

Mariano Azuela González was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism.

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Jorge Baradit

Jorge Baradit M (1969), comunicador visual y escritor, ex integrante de banda punk rock, cruza la ciudad en su moto Steed de 600 cc, evadiendo el grasoso tendido urbano como una neurona atrasada.

Publica el 2005 su novela YGDRASIL, obteniendo el reconocimiento sorprendido de la crítica y el público. El 2006 gana en España el premio UPC, de la Universidad de Catalunya, el más importante de la Ciencia Ficción en castellano y uno de los más respetados del mundo, con su novela TRINIDAD. En junio de 2007 publica YGDRASIL en España, a través del grupo Zeta para su colección NOVA, convirtiéndose de paso en uno de los autores de género más relevante en la historia de la Ciencia Ficción chilena. El 2008, la antología UPC encabezada por TRINIDAD gana

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John Katzenbach

John Katzenbach is a U.S. author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, John worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News, and a featured writer for the Herald’s Tropic magazine. He is married to Madeleine Blais and they live in western Massachusetts.

He left the newspaper grind to write books, racking up 12 novels so far, psychological thrillers that have made him an international success. His first, 1982's bestselling *In the Heat of the Summer, became the movie *The Mean Season , filmed partially in The Herald's newsroom ans starring Kurt Russell and MAriel Hemingway.

Two more of his books were made into films in the United States, 1995's *Just Cause and 2002's *Har

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Ernst Raupach

Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach

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Miguel León-Portilla

Miguel León-Portilla was a Mexican anthropologist and historian. He was one of the most reputable and commonly cited authorities on Aztec culture and literature in the pre-Columbian and colonial eras among Mexican academia. Many of his works have been translated to English and are widely read.

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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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Agustín Laje

Agustín Laje was born in the city of Córdoba (Argentina) on January 16, 1989. From a very young age, he became interested in political ideas, becoming a columnist for important national media at the age of 18. He is the author of the books Los mitos setentistas (2011), Cuando el relato es una Farsa (2013), and his latest work El libro negro de la Nueva Izquierda (2016), co-authored with Nicolás Márquez. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the Catholic University of Córdoba. Additionally, he studied counterterrorism and combating organized crime at the Center of Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University in Washington DC. In 2020, he received a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Navarra.

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Josefina López

From Wikipedia: López was born in 1969, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and at age five emigrated with her family to the United States, where they settled in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts before obtaining a BA in film and screenwriting from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA in screenwriting from the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA.

Lopez was undocumented for 13 years before she received Amnesty in 1987 and eventually became a U.S. Citizen in 1995. Lopez is the recipient of a number of other awards and accolades, including a formal recognition from U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's 7th Annual "Women Making History" banquet in 1998; and a screenwriting fellowship from the C

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Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained by the Church of Ireland) and a writer of gothic plays and novels.

His first three works were published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy and were critical and commercial failures. They did, however, catch the attention of Sir Walter Scott, who recommended Maturin's work to Lord Byron. With the help of these two literary luminaries, the curate's play, Bertram (first staged on 9 May 1816 at the Drury Lane for 22 nights) with Edmund Kean starring in the lead role as Bertram, saw a wider audience and became a success. Financial success, however, eluded Maturin, as the play's run coincided with his father's unemployment and another relative's bankruptcy, both of them assis

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Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan (b. 1966) was an Australian novelist, best known for his first novel Praise, and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The White Earth. His novel Praise is considered to be part of the Australian literary genre of grunge lit.

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Teresa de la Parra

Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo fue una escritora venezolana, más conocida como Teresa de la Parra. Es considerada una de las escritoras más destacadas de su época. A pesar de que gran parte de su vida transcurrió en el extranjero, supo expresar en su obra literaria el ambiente íntimo y familiar de la Venezuela de ese entonces. Incursionó en el mundo de las letras de la mano del periodismo, escribió dos novelas que la inmortalizaron en toda América: Ifigenia y Memorias de Mamá Blanca.

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Leopoldo Lugones

Leopoldo Lugones Argüello (13 June 1874 - 18 February 1938) was an Argentine writer and journalist.

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Graciela Montes

Argentine writer, editor and translator. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires.

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Inés Arredondo

Inés Arredondo was a Mexican writer In 1947 she enrolled in the department of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1958 she married the writer Tomás Segovia. She won the Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 1979 for her novel Río subterráneo.

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Eduardo Abel Gimenez

Eduardo Abel Gimenez nació en Argentina y, según cuenta, siempre vivió en Buenos Aires. Es escritor, fotógrafo y especialista en juegos de ingenio. Ha colaborado en diarios y revistas, y dirige junto a Roberto Sotelo la importante revista de literatura infantil y juvenil Imaginaria.
Ha publicado varios cuentos y novelas, y recibió varios premios, tanto por su labor como escritor como por su actividad de difusión de la literatura.

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Lydia Carreras de Sosa

Lydia Carreras de Sosa nació en 1949 en Rosario, Argentina, donde vive actualmente. Es profesora de inglés y tiene una academia, en la que ha trabajado durante los últimos veintiséis años.

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Eric Wilson

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Eric Wilson is a Canadian children's author and now living in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Kaita Murayama

Kaita Murayama was a Taisho era, Japanese author and painter. He was educated at the Fine Arts Academy in Tokyo and was influenced by Western art styles. One of his self-portraits appears in the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Tsu Mie Prefecture, Japan, he painted this self-portrait in 1918 before his untimely death in Tokyo, 1919.

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Yolanda Oreamuno

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

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Elsa Bornemann

Elsa Isabel Bornemann was an Argentine author. She wrote stories, songs, novels and theater pieces for children and young adults.

Elsa Bornemann nació el 20 de febrero de 1952 en el barrio porteño de Parque Patricios. Maestra Normal Nacional, obtuvo su título en el Normal № 11 Ricardo Levene. Se recibió de Licenciada en Letras en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, se doctoró y obtuvo varios diplomas de estudio en medicina y en idioma inglés, alemán, italiano, latín, griego clásico y hebreo. El 25 de mayo de 2013, la editorial Alfaguara infantil informó por las redes sociales su fallecimiento.

Durante la última dictadura militar que gobernó Argentina, autodenominada Proceso de Reorganización Nacional,

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Liliana Heker

Liliana Heker began her literary career at age 17, mentored by Argentine writer Abelardo Castillo. She was a collaborator in Argentina literary magazine "The Paper Cricket" and founded, along with Castillo, The Golden Bug and The Platypus. She has published several short story books which have been collected in "Cuentos" (Alfaguara). She has also written two novels, "El fin de la historia" and "Zona de clivaje", and a collection of essays called "Las hermanas de Shakespeare".

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José Enrique Rodó

Uruguayan writer and politician.

Rodó denounced pragmatic utilitarianism and Nordomania the Latin American attraction to North America.

He died in 1917 in a hotel in Palermo, Sicily, while working as correspondent for the Argentine weekly magazine Caras y Caretas.

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José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

Escritor mexicano. Es el gran iniciador de la novela americana. En 1812 fundó el periódico liberal El Pensador Mexicano, suspendido por el gobierno de Fernando VII, pero cuyo título se apropió el autor como seudónimo. Su vigor polémico le enfrentó en repetidas ocasiones con el orden constituido. Tras la independencia, dirigió la Gaceta del Gobierno (1825). Sus obras narrativas, que reflejan sus posturas críticas, incluyen El Periquillo Sarniento (1816 y 1830-1831) y La Quijotita y su prima (1818). También cultivó, con menos éxito, la poesía y el teatro. Su autobiografía, Noches tristes y día alegre (1818), contiene los primeros gérmenes del romanticismo mexicano.

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Jorge Icaza

Jorge Icaza Coronel (1906-1978) fue un novelista ecuatoriano.

Su más célebre novela, Huasipungo (1934), que le daría fama internacional y que lo llevaría a ser el escritor ecuatoriano más leído de la historia república, además se convirtió en una obra fundamental en la evolución de la corriente indigenista del Ecuador, uno de los máximos representantes del siglo XX. Con él, la novela ecuatoriana entra de lleno en la tendencia del compromiso social de la novelística actual. Además de la edición de 1934, la novela Huasipungo fue reescrita en 1953 y 1960, con la última edición quedando como la definitiva del autor.

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Sergio Gómez

Sergio Gómez nació en Temuco en 1962. Estudió Derecho y Literatura en la Universidad de Concepción, y fue profesor en la última especialidad. Fue creador del suplemento Zona de Contacto, del diario El Mercurio, y desde mediados de los años noventa se ha dedicado principalmente a la escritura.

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Erick De Kerpel

Escritor mexicano. Ha escrito las novelas Bungalow 77 (SUMA, 2015), Guitarra Jaguar (SUMA, 2018), El tatuaje invisible (SUMA, 2023), así como cuento en la revista Estudios, suplemento cultural del ITAM.

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Marina Mayoral

Novelista e investigadora. Catedrática de Literatura Española por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Entre el centenar de trabajos de investigación que ha realizado sobre diversos autores y épocas destacan sus estudios sobre Rosalía de Castro y Emilia Pardo Bazán y los análisis de poesía y prosa contemporáneas.

Escribe en gallego y en castellano y algunas de sus novelas han sido traducidas al alemán, italiano, portugués, polaco y chino. Sus cuentos se encuentran en las mejores antologías en lengua española y también en antologías de lengua inglesa y alemana.

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Nancy Morejón

Nancy Morejón (Havana, 1944- ) is a Cuban poet, critic, essayist.

She graduated with honors at the University of Havana, having studied Caribbean and French Literature, and she is fluent in French and English. She later taught French. She is a well-regarded translator of French and English into Spanish, particularly Caribbean writers, including Edouard Glissant, Jacques Roumain and Aimé Césaire, René Depestre. Her own poetry has been translated into English, German, French, Portuguese, Gallego, Russian, Macedonian, and others. She is as of 2013 director of Revista Union, journal of the UNEAC, Union of Writers and Artists; in 2008 she was elected president of the writer's section of Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC).

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Francisco Herrera Luque

Francisco José Herrera Luque was a Venezuelan writer, psychiatrist and diplomat. Author of well known historical novels, including: Boves, el Urogallo (1972), Los Amos del Valle (1979) and La Luna de Fausto (1983).

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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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Senel Paz

Writer and screenwriter. He is also the author of plays, stories and novels, which have been translated into seven languages and published in anthologies around the world.

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Luis Palés Matos

Luis Palés Matos was a Puerto Rican poet who is credited with creating the poetry genre known as Afro-Antillano. He is also credited with writing the screenplay for the Romance Tropical, the first Puerto Rican film with sound.

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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.

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

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Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin

Alexander Ivanovich Oparin was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life, and for his book The Origin of Life. He also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells.

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Daniel Balmaceda

Es periodista graduado en la Universidad Católica Argentina y fue editor de las revistas Noticias, El Gráfico, Newsweek, Aire Libre, La Primera y el suplemento escolar Cole Club.

Es miembro titular y vitalicio de la Sociedad Argentina de Historiadores y miembro de la Unión de Cóndores de las Américas. Presidió la Fundación Cristóbal Colón entre los años 1989 y 1993. Es columnista de historia argentina en lanacion.com y en diversos medios escritos y radiales del país.

Es autor de varios los libros, entre otros, Espadas y Corazones, Romances turbulentos de la historia argentina, Historias de corceles y de acero, Biografía no autorizada de 1910 e Historias de las palabras.

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Read It!

Escuchar, hablar, leer y escribir son los pilares para aprender un idioma. Las personas con hábitos de lectura adquieren más conocimientos en el idioma y aprenden de forma fácil y rápida. Los libros de Read It! están adaptados a su nivel, haciendo fácil y divertido el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera.

Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are the pillars to learn a language. People with reading habits have more language knowledges and learn easily and fast. The books from Read It! are adapted to your level, doing easy and funny learning a foreign language.

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Salarrué

Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué, más conocido por su seudónimo Salarrué (Sonzacate, 22 de octubre de 1899 - Los Planes de Renderos, San Salvador, 27 de noviembre de 1975) fue un artista salvadoreño. Trabajó en el campo de la literatura y las artes plásticas, pero ha sido su obra narrativa la más conocida de sus creaciones, entre las que destacan Cuentos de barro y Cuentos de cipotes.

Sus dotes artísticos se revelaron desde muy joven. Estudió pintura en los Estados Unidos, donde conoció el libro costumbrista El libro del trópico de Arturo Ambrogi, que le animó a retornar a su país para dedicarse por entero al arte. A partir de los años 1930, y aunque prefería mantenerse alejado de la política, trabajó cercano a los regímenes militares en turn

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Adela Basch

Adela «Dolly» Basch (Buenos Aires, 23 de noviembre de 1946) es una escritora argentina. Estudió Letras en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, fue miembro de la Comisión Directiva de ALIJA. Dirigió colecciones de literatura infantil y juvenil en varias editoriales y en 2002 fundó Ediciones Abran Cancha. Realizó también varias traducciones.

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Esteban Valentino

He holds a degree in Literature and university professor. In 1983 he won the National Youth Poetry Award and in 1988 the Alfonsina Storni Poetry Prize. In 1995 he was awarded the Amnesty International Award. In 1996 his book "Red Riding Hood II" was considered by Argentina Inantil Association's Literature (Alija) among the three best books of the year. Won the same award in 1998 for his book "Sometimes the Shadow" and in 2001 for "A crowded desert." In 2001, The Book Foundation decided to "All soles lying" between the three best books of 1999-2000. His works have been published in Spain, Mexico, and Puerto Rico plus Argentina. His writing focuses on what happens to us as a human society, in misery and greatness that men have always built an

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José Alberto Oliveira

Médico cardiologista, José Alberto Oliveira nasceu em 1952 em Souto da Casa, Fundão, e vive atualmente em Lisboa. Publicou o seu primeiro livro de poemas em 1992, na Assírio & Alvim, e surpreendeu pelo seu lirismo discreto e pela diversidade temática de aproximação a aspetos do quotidiano, onde além disso são notórias as influências da poesia inglesa. Traduziu Auden, Russell Edson, Frank O’Hara e Charles Simic, entre outros. Foi um dos principais colaboradores do livro «Rosa do Mundo — 2001 poemas para o futuro».

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Humberto Musacchio

Humberto Musacchio (Ciudad Obregón, México, 1943).
Ejerce el periodismo y ha dirigido secciones y suplementos culturales de las principales publicaciones de México.
Es autor, entre otras obras, del Diccionario enciclopédico de México y de los libros de crónicas Ciudad quebrada, Hojas del tiempo y Urbe fugitiva. También ha publicado Historia gráfica del periodismo mexicano e Historia del periodismo cultural de México.
Fondo de Cultura Económica ha editado El Taller de Gráfica Popular.

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Helen Velando

Estudió tres años en la facultad de Derecho, pero abandonó para seguir su vocación artística. Comenzó a cantar y estudiar teatro y títeres, y llegó a tener una banda de blues 'La Trapecista. Tuvo muchos trabajos: vendió libros, zapatos y ropa, hizo encuestas, tejió, fue docente de teatro y guionista de humor para televisión. En 1989 empezó a escribir adaptaciones para teatro.
En 1993, año en que ganó un Premio Florencio Sánchez a la mejor actriz en el rubro infantil, publicó su primer libro, con el que logró cierta repercusión. Su gran paso fue en 1999, cuando, después de cuatro años sin publicar, su libro Detectives en el Parque Rodó tuvo un gran éxito en el público uruguayo.
En 2008, el autor Luis Martínez Cherro informó que el libro de Vel

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Miguel Barnet

Miguel Barnet, is one of Cuba's most distinguished writers and poets as well as a member of the island's National Assembly. He is also the president of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), an organization with more than 8,000 members. He is an outspoken intellectual, having studied first in the United States and later at the University of Havana. He is best known for his testimonial novel Biography of a Runaway Slave, Biografía de un Cimarrón in Spanish, but he has written dozens of other novels, poems and articles, including a number of stories for Cigar Aficionado. He's been called the Truman Capote of Cuba.

Barnet first came to national attention as the poet of La piedra fina y el pavorreal (1963) and the much-prais

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Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá

Puerto Rican essayist and novelist present in the literary scene since the seventies, with the publication of La renuncia del héroe Baltasar. His works are always linked to Puerto Rican history; portaits of its modern socio-politics, and its colonial ups and downs.

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Ermilo Abreu Gómez

Writer, journalist and lecturer. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language from 1963. He was also a professor in several universities in the United States.

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Horacio Quiroga

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