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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (pen name La Peregrina) came from a noble background; her father, Manuel Gómez de Avellaneda, was a descendent of the royal family of Navarre and aristocracy of Vizcaya of Spain, and also a commander of the Spanish navy in charge of the central regions of Cuba. Her mother, Francisca de Arteaga y Betancourt, was also from a wealthy Spanish family that had lived in Puerto Príncipe. It is said that her mother’s family is the one that inspired the family in her first novel, Sab.

At the age of nine, her father died and her mother remarried ten months later to don Isidoro de Escalada, who was also a Spanish officer in Cuba. At 22, in 1836, she left Cuba with her family for A Coruña, Spain. Soon after, she an

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Escritor y abogado ecuatoriano. Fue uno de los fundadores de la vanguardia en el Ecuador e Hispanoamérica, un adelantado en lo que respecta a estructuras y contenidos narrativos, con una obra muy diferente a la de los escritores del costumbrismo de su época. Hijo de madre soltera, Clementina Palacio Suárez; fue inscrito en el Registro Civil como hijo de padre desconocido. Años después su padre, Agustín Costa, quiso otorgarle el apellido, pero Palacio lo rechazó.

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Born 21 June 1947, Savater is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author.

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

He defines himself as an agnostic, an anglophile and a defender of the Enlightenment in the Voltaire tradition.

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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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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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Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan novelist, poet, and (above all) short story writer.

He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.

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

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Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14. He wrote his first novel, "Los dominios del lobo" (The D

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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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Rómulo Gallegos Freire

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Ejerce el cargo de Presidente de Venezuela en 1948 por escasos nueve meses, convirtiéndose en el primer mandatario presidencial del siglo XX elegido de manera directa, secreta y universal por el pueblo venezolano, y ha sido el Presidente de la República que ha obtenido el mayor porcentaje de votos a su favor en elecciones celebradas en el país en todos los tiempos, con más del 80% de la totalidad de los votos. Sin embargo, su separación

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Juan León Mera

Escritor ecuatoriano. Heredero y admirador del romanticismo francés, en particular de Chateaubriand, se le atribuye el papel de fundador de la crítica literaria en su país. Miembro del Partido Conservador, fue senador, gobernador en dos ocasiones y ministro del Tribunal de Cuentas. Fundó la Academia ecuatoriana y fomentó la conciencia literaria criollista. Esta preocupación por la cultura criolla se refleja en su Ojeada histórico-crítica sobre la poesía ecuatoriana (1868) y en una carta que dirigió a Menéndez y Pelayo en 1883. Escribió la letra del himno nacional ecuatoriano, los versos de Melodías indígenas (1858) y la leyenda inca en verso La virgen del Sol (1861). Su obra más popular, Cumandá o un drama entre salvajes (1879), se inscribe

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Podría considerarse a José de la Cuadra como el mejor exponente del realismo mágico del Ecuador y el primero de Latinoamérica, en especial por sus obras sobre la temática montubia, es decir la relativa a la vida del campesino costeño, muy distinta a la del indígena serrano. La mejor obra que expone ello es "Los Sangurimas", obra en la que relata la vida de una familia costeña, cuya existencia gira alrededor de su patriarca Nicasio Sangurima, hombre centenario, rodeado de misterio, del que se cuentan terribles y demoniacas leyendas, cada una más sangrienta que la anterior.

Son notables también muchos de sus cuentos, como Guasinton, la Tigra, Chichería, el Fin de la Teresita, etc. Resalta entre ellos la oda a la vida y captura del lagarto Guas

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People best know long didactic poems and historical plays, such as Don Carlos (1787) and William Tell (1804), of leading romanticist German poet, dramatist, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

This philosopher and dramatist struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last eighteen years of his life and encouraged Goethe to finish works that he left merely as sketches; they greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics and thus gave way to a period, now referred to as classicism of Weimar. They also worked together on Die Xenien ( The Xenies ), a collection of short but harsh satires that verbally attacked perceived enemies of the

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Joaquín Gallegos Lara was born in Guayaquil in 1909, the son of Emma Lara Calderon and Joaquín Gallegos Del Campo (1873-1910) who founded a newspaper called "El Caustico" in 1895, which was satirical in nature and pro-Eloy Alfaro. Besides being a journalist, his father also wrote poems, which his wife Emma published after his death in a book called Mis Recuerdos (1912), which contained two poems dedicated to his son Joaquín Gallegos Lara: "A mi primogenito" and "El primer diente".

Despite being crippled, Lara fought as a militant communist and intellectual in Ecuador. He participated in street battles and blockades, with the help of a friend who carried him on his shoulders and acted as his legs. He never attended school and was completely s

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Luis Alfredo Martínez

Escritor, pintor y político ecuatoriano, de marcada tendencia liberal y amigo del presidente Eloy Alfaro. Entre los cargos públicos que ocupó se cuentan Diputado al Congreso Nacional por la Provincia de Tungurahua, Gobernador de la misma provincia y Subsecretario del Ministerio de Instrucción Pública. En el ámbito literario, es considerado el iniciador del realismo en el país. En la pintura fue uno de los pocos pintores romanticistas y de los primeros costumbristas que enriquecieron las artes plásticas durante las primeras décadas republicanas.

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Nelson Estupiñán Bass

Ecuadorian novelist and poet that was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1988, Nelson Estupiñán Bass (1912 -2002) was also one of the leading voices of the Afro-Latin literary movement, being of African heritage and born into the Afro-Ecuadorian coastal province of Esmeraldas. Trained in accounting, while working in that field, he developed his writing career by publishing a series of literary journals in his community.

In 1950, at the age of 38, Bass gained international renown with the publication of his novel, When the Guayacans Were in Bloom, which related the how Afro-Ecuadorians were exploited by both conservative and liberal factions during Ecuador’s 1895 Liberal Revolution. The book has since been translated into English, French, and R

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Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history.

The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."

He has received the International Human Rights Award by Global Exchange (2006) and the Stig Dagerman Prize (2010).

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Mónica Ojeda

Mónica Ojeda was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1988. She has published novels, short stories, and poems, earning her nominations and accolades in various literary contests. In 2017, she was listed in Bogotá39 by the Hay Festival as one of the best Latin American fiction writers under forty. In 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in the Netherlands. In 2021, Granta magazine named her one of the best Spanish-language authors under 35.

Ojeda stands out as one of the leading figures in contemporary Latin American fiction literature. The author is renowned for her skill in crafting intense and unsettling narratives that delve into the darker aspects of human psychology. Her stories often explore themes such as abuse, obsess

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María Fernanda Ampuero

María Fernanda Ampuero is a writer and journalist, born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1976. She has published articles in newspapers and magazines around the world, as well as two nonfiction books: Lo que aprendí en la peluquería y Permiso de residencia. Cockfight is her first short story collection, and her first book to be translated into English.

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Ángel de Saavedra, duque de Rivas

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

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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.

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

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Juan León Mera

Escritor ecuatoriano. Heredero y admirador del romanticismo francés, en particular de Chateaubriand, se le atribuye el papel de fundador de la crítica literaria en su país. Miembro del Partido Conservador, fue senador, gobernador en dos ocasiones y ministro del Tribunal de Cuentas. Fundó la Academia ecuatoriana y fomentó la conciencia literaria criollista. Esta preocupación por la cultura criolla se refleja en su Ojeada histórico-crítica sobre la poesía ecuatoriana (1868) y en una carta que dirigió a Menéndez y Pelayo en 1883. Escribió la letra del himno nacional ecuatoriano, los versos de Melodías indígenas (1858) y la leyenda inca en verso La virgen del Sol (1861). Su obra más popular, Cumandá o un drama entre salvajes (1879), se inscribe

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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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José de la Cuadra

Podría considerarse a José de la Cuadra como el mejor exponente del realismo mágico del Ecuador y el primero de Latinoamérica, en especial por sus obras sobre la temática montubia, es decir la relativa a la vida del campesino costeño, muy distinta a la del indígena serrano. La mejor obra que expone ello es "Los Sangurimas", obra en la que relata la vida de una familia costeña, cuya existencia gira alrededor de su patriarca Nicasio Sangurima, hombre centenario, rodeado de misterio, del que se cuentan terribles y demoniacas leyendas, cada una más sangrienta que la anterior.

Son notables también muchos de sus cuentos, como Guasinton, la Tigra, Chichería, el Fin de la Teresita, etc. Resalta entre ellos la oda a la vida y captura del lagarto Guas

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Luis Alfredo Martínez

Escritor, pintor y político ecuatoriano, de marcada tendencia liberal y amigo del presidente Eloy Alfaro. Entre los cargos públicos que ocupó se cuentan Diputado al Congreso Nacional por la Provincia de Tungurahua, Gobernador de la misma provincia y Subsecretario del Ministerio de Instrucción Pública. En el ámbito literario, es considerado el iniciador del realismo en el país. En la pintura fue uno de los pocos pintores romanticistas y de los primeros costumbristas que enriquecieron las artes plásticas durante las primeras décadas republicanas.

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Nelson Estupiñán Bass

Ecuadorian novelist and poet that was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1988, Nelson Estupiñán Bass (1912 -2002) was also one of the leading voices of the Afro-Latin literary movement, being of African heritage and born into the Afro-Ecuadorian coastal province of Esmeraldas. Trained in accounting, while working in that field, he developed his writing career by publishing a series of literary journals in his community.

In 1950, at the age of 38, Bass gained international renown with the publication of his novel, When the Guayacans Were in Bloom, which related the how Afro-Ecuadorians were exploited by both conservative and liberal factions during Ecuador’s 1895 Liberal Revolution. The book has since been translated into English, French, and R

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Joaquín Gallegos Lara

Joaquín Gallegos Lara was born in Guayaquil in 1909, the son of Emma Lara Calderon and Joaquín Gallegos Del Campo (1873-1910) who founded a newspaper called "El Caustico" in 1895, which was satirical in nature and pro-Eloy Alfaro. Besides being a journalist, his father also wrote poems, which his wife Emma published after his death in a book called Mis Recuerdos (1912), which contained two poems dedicated to his son Joaquín Gallegos Lara: "A mi primogenito" and "El primer diente".

Despite being crippled, Lara fought as a militant communist and intellectual in Ecuador. He participated in street battles and blockades, with the help of a friend who carried him on his shoulders and acted as his legs. He never attended school and was completely s

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