Josefina Aldecoa
Josefa Rodríguez Álvarez (La Robla, León, 8 de marzo de 1926 – Mazcuerras, Cantabria, 16 de marzo de 2011), conocida como Josefina Aldecoa, fue una escritora y pedagoga española, directora del Colegio Estilo. Estuvo casada con el escritor Ignacio Aldecoa, de quien adoptó tras su muerte su apellido para su carrera literaria.
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Monika Zgustová es una escritora y traductora checo-española. Los temas de su obra de ficción giran alrededor del exilio, la pérdida de la identidad y la vida íntima de las personas en tiempos del totalitarismo.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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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Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l -
Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party. In 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an Independent.
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Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
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He was a connoisseur of the flora and fauna of Castile and was passionate about hunting and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world.
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Antonio Orejudo
Antonio Orejudo nació en Madrid en 1963. Doctor en filología hispánica, durante siete años fue profesor de literatura española en diferentes universidades de Estados Unidos y ha pasado un año como investigador invitado en la Universidad de Amsterdam. En la actualidad es profesor titular en la Universidad de Almería. Es autor de cuatro novelas: Fabulosas narraciones por historias (1996), Ventajas de viajar en tren (2000), Reconstrucción (2005) y Un momento de descanso (2011). Todas ellas, muy distintas entre sí, componen el corpus coherente de uno de los narradores más brillantes en lengua española.
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Autor de numerosos artículos de crítica publicados en Babelia, ABC Cultural, o Letras Libres entre otros medios de prensa. -
Alana S. Portero
Alana S. Portero (Madrid, 1978) es una escritora, poeta, dramaturga y directora escénica española que escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB con un enfoque concreto en la realidad de las mujeres trans.
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Nació y se crio en el barrio de San Blas en Madrid, y se licenció en Historia, especializándose en Historia Medieval, por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Es escritora, dramaturga y directora escénica.
Es cofundadora de la compañía de teatro STRIGA, que dirigía y en la que actuaba. Escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB para varios medios, como la revista Agente Provocador, ElDiario.es, El Salto, SModa y Vogue España, además de en su propio Patreon.
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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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Beatriz Serrano
Beatriz Serrano es Licenciada en Periodismo por la Universidad Complutense. Ha desarrollado su carrera en el periodismo digital, especializándose en nuevas narrativas. Ha escrito para medios como BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, SModa o Vogue. Actualmente, trabaja en El País. Además, junto al escritor Guillermo Alonso, codirige el pódcast Arsénico Caviar, que fue galardonado con el premio Ondas en la categoría de mejor conversacional.
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Bea Lema
Beatriz Lema Rivera (1985), known as Bea Lema, is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, winner of the 2024 Spanish National Comic Award. Her works have been published in both Spanish and French.
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In 2017, she published her first comic in galician, O Corpo de Cristo, which was nominated and later named winner of the XII Castelao Comic Award of the Provincial Council of A Coruña, becoming the first woman to receive this award. Thanks to a scholarship she remade her work at the Maison des auteurs in Angoulême, and it was later published in France under the title Des maux à dire.
Her first work, renamed to Spanish as El Cuerpo de Cristo and published this time by the Astiberri publishing house, was awarded the 2024 National Comic Award, which was -
Aroa Moreno Durán
Escritora y periodista española. Estudió Periodismo en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, especializándose en Información Internacional y Países del Sur.
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En lo literario ha publicado dos poemarios Veinte años sin lápices nuevos (2009) y Jet lag (2016) y las biografías Frida Kahlo: viva la vida, y Federico García Lorca: la valiente alegría, ambas en la editorial Difusión (2011).
Publicó su primera novela en 2017, La hija del comunista, con la cual ganó el Premio Ojo Crítico de Narrativa otorgado por RNE.
En 2022 vuelve al panorama literario con la novela La bajamar, en la cual recorre cien años de nuestra historia de tres generaciones de mujeres de la misma familia, y así construir un relato sobre el género, la clase, la Guerra Civil y los c -
Diego Giráldez
Diego Giráldez García, nado no Porriño o 15 de xullo de 1976, é un xornalista e escritor galego.
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Licenciado en Historia da Arte pola Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Leva toda a súa vida profesional vinculado ao xornalismo. Foi redactor de A Peneira e coordinou o seu suplemento cultural, Kalaikia. Colaborou con Xornal de Galicia, A Nosa Terra e El País, edición galega. Tamén ten colaboracións en Praza Pública (formando parte do consello de redacción) e na revista Luzes. Fundou e dirixiu a revista Malladoura e o CanZine, publicación oficial do Festival de Cans. -
Joël Dicker
Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied law. He spent childhood summers in New England, particularly in Stonington and Bar Harbor, Maine. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair won three French literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Dicker lives in Geneva.
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Sara Mesa
Sara Mesa is the author of eight works of fiction, including Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), and Cara de Pan (forthcoming from Open Letter). Her works have been translated into more than ten different languages, and has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.
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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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María Dueñas is marrried with Manuel Ballesteros, also a professor, and they have two children, the family lives in Cartagena. -
Jocelyne Saucier
Jocelyne Saucier (born 1948 in Clair, New Brunswick) is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.
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Educated in political science at the Université Laval, Saucier worked as a journalist in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec before publishing her debut novel, La Vie comme une image, in 1996. That book was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1996 Governor General's Awards. Her second novel, Les Héritiers de la mine, was a finalist for the Prix France-Québec in 2001, and her third novel, Jeanne sur les routes, was a finalist at the 2006 Governor General's Awards. Her fourth novel, Il pleuvait des oiseaux, won the Prix France-Québec, the Prix Ringuet, the Prix des cinq continents de la f -
Delphine de Vigan
Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults. Her breakthrough work was the book No et moi (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des Libraires (The Booksellers' Prize) in France in 2008.
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In 2011, she published a novel Rien ne s'oppose a la nuit (Nothing holds back the night) that deals with a family coping with their mother's bipolar disorder. In her native France, the novel brought her a set of awards, including the prix du roman Fnac (the prize given by the Fnac bookstores) and the prix Renaudot des lycéens. -
Ida Jessen
Ida Jessen, Danish author. Born 1964 in Sønderjylland. She holds an M.A. in History of Literature and Communication from Århus University 1990. Ida Jessen made her literary debut in 1989 with the collection of short stories Under sten (Under Stones) and has since then written a number of novels and short stories for both children and adults. Since 1995 she has lived on Sealand. Jessen has translated a number of novels also for young adults from Norwegian and English to Danish, amongst others novels by Lars Saabye Christensen and Karin Fossum.
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Ida Jessen has been awarded a long list of prizes and awards for her work: The Danish Art Foundation (several times), The Danish Arts Council (several times), Gyldendal’s Book Grant, The Egholt Prize, -
Megan Maxwell
María del Carmen Rodríguez del Álamo Lázaro was born on 1965 in Nuremberg, Germany, daugther of a Spanish mother and a North American father. She grew up in Madrid, Spain. She worked during years as secretary. Under the pseudonym of Megan Maxwell (her first heroine), she published romance novels since 2010.
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Elia Barceló
Elia Barceló (Alicante, 1957) es escritora y profesora de Literatura Hispánica y Escritura creativa en la Universidad de Innsbruck, Austria, donde vive desde 1981.
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Con sus últimas novelas (El vuelo del Hipogrifo, El secreto del orfebre, Disfraces terribles en la editorial Lengua de Trapo y Corazón de Tango en 451 Editores, Las largas sombras en Ambar), traducidas o en proceso de traducción a una docena de idiomas (como el inglés, alemán, neerlandés, francés, italiano, noruego, sueco, danés), está obteniendo un considerable reconocimiento internacional, sobre todo en Alemania y Holanda. También ha publicado novelas para jóvenes, numerosos relatos y un ensayo sobre Julio Cortázar. -
Philippe Claudel
Philippe Claudel is a French writer and film director.
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His most famous work to date is the novel " Les Âmes Grises " - " Grey Souls ", which won the prix Renaudot award in France, was shortlisted for the American Gumshoe Award, and won Sweden's Martin Beck Award. In addition to his writing, Philippe Claudel is a Professor of Literature at the University of Nancy. -
Carmen Martín Gaite
Carmen Martín Gaite (Salamanca 1925-Madrid 2000) se licenció en Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Salamanca, donde conoció a Ignacio Aldecoa y a Agustín García Calvo. En esa universidad tuvo además su primer contacto con el teatro participando como actriz en varias obras.
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Se trasladó a Madrid en 1950 y se doctoró en la Universidad de Madrid con la tesis Usos amorosos del XVIII en España. Ignacio Aldecoa, cuya obra estudiaría posteriormente, la introdujo en su círculo literario, donde conoció a Josefina Aldecoa, Alfonso Sastre, Juan Benet, Medardo Fraile, Jesús Fernández Santos y Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, con quien se casó en 1954. De esta manera se incluyó en la que sería conocida como la Generación del 55 o Generación de la Posguerra. -
Carmen Laforet
Carmen Laforet Y Díaz was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish Tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte.
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Gioconda Belli
Gioconda Belli (born December 9, 1948 in Managua, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan author, novelist and poet.
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Gioconda Belli, partly of Northern Italian descent, was an active participant in the Sandinista struggle against the Somoza dictatorship, and her work for the movement led to her being forced into exile in Mexico in 1975. Returning in 1979 just before the Sandinista victory, she became FSLN's international press liaison in 1982 and the director of State Communications in 1984. During that time she met Charles Castaldi, an American NPR journalist, whom she married in 1987. She has been living in both Managua and Los Angeles since 1990. She has since left the FSLN and is now a major critic of the current government.
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Juan Claudio de Ramón
Juan Claudio de Ramón Jacob-Ernst es un diplomático y articulista español nacido en Madrid en 1982. Actualmente es primer secretario de la Embajada de España ante Italia en Roma. Desde 2011 hasta 2015 fue Consejero en la Embajada de España en Ottawa. Publica de manera regular comentarios políticos en El País y aborda cuestiones culturales en otras revistas como The Objective, Jot Down, Letras Libres, Claves de Razón Práctica o El Ciervo. Se licenció en Derecho y Relaciones Internacionales en ICADE y en Filosofía por la UNED. Le interesan la historia de las ideas políticas, el federalismo, el nacionalismo y el futuro de España y de Europa. Trabaja en un libro de viajes sobre Canadá. Le gustan las conversaciones con final abierto, el cine y l
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Antón Riveiro Coello
Antón Riveiro Coello (Xinzo de Limia, 1964). Cursó estudios de Derecho en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y actualmente trabaja como funcionario de la Administración Autonómica. Es uno de los narradores de más prestigio de la narrativa gallega contemporánea y, entre su obra, traducida a varios idiomas, destacan los títulos Valquiria (Ed. Novo Século, 1996), Premio Camilo José Cela de Narrativa; Parque Central e outros relatos (Espiral Maior, 1996); A historia de Chico Antela (Espiral Maior, 1997), Accésit en el Premio Manuel García Barros de Novela; A quinta de Saler (Galaxia, 1999, 3ª ed.), Finalista en los Premios de Narrativa Torrente Ballester y Xerais de novela; Animalia (Galaxia, 1999, 2ª ed.), Premio Café Dublín de Narrativa
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