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Jorge Volpi

Jorge Volpi (México, 1968) Es licenciado en Derecho y maestro en Letras Mexicanas por la unam y doctor en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Salamanca.

Es autor de las novelas A pesar del oscuro silencio (Joaquín Mortiz, 1992; Planeta, 2000), Días de ira, en el volumen Tres bosquejos del mal (Siglo XXI, 1994; Muchnik Editores, 2000), La paz de los sepulcros (Aldus, 1995; Seix Barral, 2007), El temperamento melancólico (Nueva Imagen, 1996; Seix Barral, 2004) Sanar tu piel amarga (Nueva Imagen, 1997; Algaida, 2004) y El juego del Apocalipsis (DeBolsillo, 2000) y de los ensayos La imaginación y el poder. Una historia intelectual de 1968 (Editorial Era, 1998) y La guerra y las palabras. Una historia del alzamiento zapatista (Editorial Er

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Shūsaku Endō

Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作), born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven. At Tokyo's Keio University he majored in French literature, graduating BA in 1949, before furthering his studies in French Catholic literature at the University of Lyon in France between 1950 and 1953. A major theme running through his books, which have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Russian and Swedish, is the failure of Japanese soil to nurture the growth of Christianity. Before his death in 1996, Endo was the recipient of a number of outstanding Japanese literary awards: the Akutagawa Prize, Mainichi Cultural Prize, Shincho Prize, and Tanizaki Prize.
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Simon Ilincev

Simon Ilincev is a voracious reader and passionate writer. He published his first novel, The Trilogic Worlds: The Fictional War, at thirteen years old. Currently, he splits his time between writing, programming and language learning. His other hobbies include metal detecting for WWII artifacts with friends and practicing for Rubik’s Cube competitions. He speaks Czech and English, and is currently learning Mandarin Chinese.

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Henrique Schneider

Henrique Schneider nasceu em 1963, em Novo Hamburgo/RS – cidade onde hoje vive. Filho da ex-miss e professora universitária Therezinha e do ex-rei Momo e deputado Nestor Fips Schneider, desde cedo esteve próximo da literatura. Ao lado dos jogos de futebol no campinho do colégio e das correrias de polícia e ladrão, os livros e revistas. A loja de brinquedo e a livraria.

É pai dos grandes Pedro e Felipe. Graduado em Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), desde 1993 é sócio da Fagundes, Schneider e Advogados Associados.

Na época da faculdade, publicou seu primeiro livro: Pedro Bruxo (Editora Metrópole). Publicado em 1984, o livro ganhou ainda outras duas edições pela Editora Caetés.

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Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novel Barn 8 and the story collection Wait Till You See Me Dance. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, NOON, the New York Times, and McSweeney’s. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a Creative Capital grant, three Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin, she also runs the Pen City Writers, a creative writing program at a penitentiary in southern Texas.

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Julio Rojas

Guionista, uno de los más exitosos y recurrentes del cine chileno del nuevo siglo. De profesión odontólogo, ejerce estas funciones por las mañanas en uno de los más importantes hospitales públicos de Santiago, reservando las tardes a su pasión por la escritura de guiones. Salvo en aquellos breves períodos en que debe ausentarse del país, porque desde 1999 viaja todos los años a Cuba para atender un Taller de Estructura de Guión Cinematográfico que tiene a su cargo en la Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de Los Baños. Aprendió el oficio de guionista leyendo libros de la especialidad y practicándolo por su cuenta, aunque el conocimiento de la estructura de los sistemas biológicos –necesario en su formación como dentista, según cuenta

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Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her novels and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s. Some of her recent projects include a ballet libretto for the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center in 2010; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City.

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Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained a A.B. at Vassar College, then earned a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. From 1981 to 1996, she taught at Iowa State University. Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.

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Georges Perec

Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.

Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.

Perec's first novel, Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties) was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1965.

In 1978, Perec won the prix Médicis for Life: A User's Manual (French title, La Vie mode d'emploi), possibly his best-known work. The 99 chapters of thi

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Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: Las Muertas (The Dead Girls), Dos Crimenes (Two Crimes), and Los Relámpagos de Agosto (The Lightning of August). His plays include Susana y los Jóvenes and Ante varias esfinges, both dating from the 1950s. In 1955, Ibarguengoitia received a Rockefeller grant to study in New York City; five years later he received the Mexico City literary award.

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Rafael Chirbes

Rafael Chirbes (Tabernes de Valldigna, Valencia, 27 de junio de 1949 - 15 de agosto de 2015) fue un escritor y crítico literario español, ganador del Premio Nacional de la Crítica en 2007 y en 2014.

Desde los ocho años estudió en colegios de huérfanos de ferroviarios. A los 16 se fue a Madrid, donde estudió Historia Moderna y Contemporánea. Vivió en Marruecos (donde fue profesor de español), París, Barcelona, La Coruña, Extremadura, y en el año 2000 regresó a Valencia. Se dedicó a la crítica literaria durante algún tiempo y posteriormente a otras actividades periodísticas, como las reseñas gastronómicas (en la revista Sobremesa) y los relatos de viajes.

Su primera novela, Mimoun (1988), quedó finalista del Premio Herralde y su obra La larga

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Leila Guerriero

Leila Guerriero is an Argentinian journalist. She began her career in 1991, as an editor with the magazine Página/30, part of the Argentine newspaper Página/12. Since then her texts have appeared in various publications across Latin America and Europe: La Nación and Rolling Stone, in Argentina; El País, Altaïr and Jot Down, in Spain; Piauí, in Brazil; Leopard, in Mexico; L’Internazionale, in Italy, among others. She is the author of many books, including Los suicidas del fin del mundo (Tusquets, 2004); Frutos extraños (2009, Aguilar, Alfaguara); Una historia sencilla (2013, Anagram); and La Otra Guerra (2021, Anagram). She has received the CEMEX + FNPI New Journalism Award, González-Ruano Prize, Blue Metropolis Grand Prix and Manuel Vázquez

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Fernando Navarro

Fernando Navarro nació en Granada en 1980. Es uno de los guionistas más activos y prolíficos del cine español. Ha colaborado con cineastas como Álex de la Iglesia, Isaki Lacuesta, Rodrigo Cortés, Paco Plaza o Jaume Balagueró. Ha sido dos veces nominado a los Premios Goya, en las categorías de Mejor Guion Original y Mejor Guion Adaptado. Entre su filmografía destacan Verónica (nominada a Mejor Guion Original en los Premios Goya 2018), Orígenes secretos (nominada a Mejor Guion Adaptado en los Premios Goya 2020), Bajocero (2021), Venus (2022) y la serie Romancero (2023). Es coguionista de Segundo premio (2024), película que se alzó con la Biznaga de Oro en el Festival de Málaga y que ha sido nominada al Goya a Mejor Película y candidata a los

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Alejandro Zambra

Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents, Multiple Choice, Not to Read, Chilean Poet and Childish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s, among other places.

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Guadalupe Nettel

Guadalupe Nettel (born 1973) is a Mexican writer. She was born in Mexico City and obtained a PhD in linguistics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She has published in several genres, both fiction and non-fiction.

Nettel is a prolific author and a regular contributor to both Spanish- and French-language magazines, including Letras Libres, Hoja por hoja, L'atelier du roman, and L'inconvénient. In 2006 she was voted one of thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the Bogotá Hay Festival.

She has lived in Montreal and Paris, and is now based in Barcelona, where she works as a translator and holds writing seminars and a workshop on Potential Literature (based on the French Oul

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Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first novel and is longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.

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Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her novels and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s. Some of her recent projects include a ballet libretto for the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center in 2010; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City.

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C. Toni Graham

C. Toni Graham is the author of the delightful illustrated children's book "Gabby Giggles". Her YA novel, "Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals" is the first installment of her debut trilogy. The second release in the series, "Crossroads and the Dominion of Four" is now available at all retailers. This fantasy saga is about four teenagers transported to the Otherworld. Here the teens are thrust into a magical world where they must defeat an evil druid and determine if other magical beings are allies or enemies as they face danger and challenges in their quest for answers. This fast paced fantasy is fueled with mystery, surprising plots and memorable characters. Crossroads is an extremely well-written story for readers of all ages.
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Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Houston and was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2020.

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Fernanda Melchor

Nací en el puerto de Veracruz. Escribí el libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami y las novelas Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Páradais.

I was born in Veracruz, Mexico. I wrote the non-fiction book Aquí no es Miami and the novels Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Paradais.

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Clyo Mendoza

Clyo Huitzilin Mendoza Herrera nació en Oaxaca, México, en 1993. Poeta y narradora, es autora de Anamnesis (Cuadrivio, 2016) y Silencio (Fondo editorial del Estado de México, 2018), libro por el cual obtuvo el Premio Internacional de Poesía Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz en 2017.

Ha participado en las antologías Poetas parricidas (Cuadrivio, 2014), Tiembla (Almadía, 2018), Los reyes subterráneos. Veinte poetas jóvenes de México (La Bella Varsovia, 2015) y Todo pende de una transparencia. Muestra de poesía mexicana reciente (Vallejo & Company, 2016). Ha sido becaria del FONCA en los géneros de Poesía y Novela y residente becaria de la Fundación Antonio Gala, en Córdoba, España.

Furia, publicada en 2021, fue su primera novela.

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Paulina Flores

Estudió literatura en la Universidad de Chile. En el 2011 obtuvo la beca de creación literaria del Fondo del Libro y la Lectura. El año 2014 ganó el Premio Roberto Bolaño, en la categoría cuento, por el relato “Qué vergüenza”.

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Camila Fabbri

(Buenos Aires, 1989) Es escritora, directora de teatro y actriz. Dirigió las obras Brick, Mi primer hiroshima, Condición de buenos nadadores, En lo alto para siempre y Recital Olímpico (las dos últimas, en colaboración con Eugenia Pérez Tomas). Como actriz, fue nominada a los Premios Cóndor de Plata por su trabajo en la película Dos disparos del director argentino Martín Rejtman. Publicó el libro de cuentos Los accidentes (Emecé-Notanpüan, 2017) y la novela de no ficción El día que apagaron la luz (Seix Barral, 2019), declarada de interés cultural por el gobierno de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Formó parte de la selección “Ochenteros, escritorxs nacidos en los 80” en la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara (2017). Ha sido publicada en España, Méxic

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Sabina Urraca

Sabina Urraca es una periodista y escritora española, conocida especialmente por sus artículos de periodismo gonzo o de inmersión.

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Dahlia de la Cerda

Nació, creció y vive actualmente en la Ciudad de Aguascalientes. Estudió la licenciatura en Filosofía. Ha sido empleada de un call-center, un bar y una fábrica de dulces. Ha trabajado como editora de noticias internacionales y como vendedora de Avón, rosas negras en la calle y de ropa de segunda en un tianguis. En 2009 ganó el certamen literario Letras de la Memoria, convocado por el Centro Cultural Los Arquitos. En 2015 fue becaria del Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico de Aguascalientes (PECDA). Fue beneficiaria del Programa Jóvenes Creadores del Fonca en las emisiones 2016 y 2018. Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala 2019. Ha participado en las antologías Mexicanas. Trece narrativas contemporáneas

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Claudia Ulloa Donoso

Claudia Ulloa Donoso (born 6 September 1979) is a Peruvian writer. She was born in Lima, and studied tourism in her native Peru before studying Spanish at the University of Tromsø.
Her published work includes the short story collections El pez que aprendió a caminar and Pajarito, as well as Séptima Madrugada based on the weblog of the same name.
In 2017, she was living in the north of Norway when she was included in the Bogota39 list of the most promising young writers in Latin America.

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Gabriela Escobar

Es música y escritora. Sus poemas fueron publicados en la antología Devotas (2021) y en la antología del Premio Pablo Neruda (2018).

Si las cosas fuesen como son recibió el Premio Juan Carlos Onetti en Narrativa (2021) y es su primera novela.

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James Campion Conway

James Campion Conway is the author of the literary coming of age novel called The Vagabond King.

"There were times I had to put the book down and simply reflect on how talented this author is." Underground Book Reviews

"...if the world and literature survive into the next age, The Vagabond King will probably be a classic." TM Romero, Goodreads.com

“Thought-provoking and absorbing…a soulful and soul-searching novel of a young man’s coming of age.” Star, Goodreads.Com

If you’ve ever wondered “what it’s all about” or, if you like mythological fiction like American Gods by Neil Gaiman, or visionary fiction like The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield or The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, then this book is for you.

His influences are Tolkien, Kafka, Din

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Yuri Herrera

Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied Politics in Mexico, Creative Writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, was published to great critical acclaim in 2015 and included in many Best-of-Year lists, including The Guardian‘s Best Fiction and NBC News’s Ten Great Latino Books, going on to win the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. He is currently teaching at the Tulane University, in New Orleans.

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Germano Zullo

Germano Zullo (1968) acquired Swiss nationality in 1985. He studied economics and management, undertook some trips to Europe, worked as an accountant, before turning to writing. He is married to the illustrator Albertine with whom he has collaborated for several albums. He also writes erotic stories, poems and novels. Today he devotes himself entirely to writing.

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Rodrigo Hasbún

Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian novelist living and working in Houston, Texas. In 2007, he was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the best Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine for Bogotá39, and in 2010 he was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists. He is the author of three novels, two volumes of personal essays, and three collections of short stories, two of which have been made into films. His work has appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Affections received an English PEN Award and has been published in twelve languages.

Rodrigo Hasbún nació en Cochabamba, Bolivia, en 1981. Ha publicado los libros de cuentos Cinco, Los días más felices y Cuatro, un

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Ramón López Velarde

Ramón López Velarde was a Mexican poet. His work is generally considered to be postmodern, but is unique for its subject matter. He achieved great fame in his native land, to the point of being considered Mexico's national poet.

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Pedro Cabiya

Escritor, poeta y guionista. Nace el 2 de noviembre de 1971. Irrumpe en el mundo literario con el libro de cuentos Historias tremendas (Isla Negra 1999), galardonado Mejor Libro del Año por Pen Club International. En años subsiguientes publica Historias atroces (Isla Negra 2003), y las novelas Trance (Norma 2007), La cabeza (Isla Negra 2005)y Malas hierbas (Zemí Book, 2011); todas han adquirido status de culto. Ha participado en numerosas antologías internacionales. Se ha destacado también por su cultivo de la novela gráfica con títulos duros como Ánima Sola, Juanita Morel, Obelenkó y Justin Time.

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Pablo Maurette

Pablo Maurette received his BA in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires, an MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from the University of London (Royal Holloway College), and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Between 2013 and 2017, he was a Harper Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. And in 2018-2019, he was a Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Maurette specializes in Early Modern comparative literature and the Classical Tradition and his approach is trans-historical, multilingual, and interdisciplinary. His research focuses on the intersections between literature, science, and the history of ideas in the peri

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Mynona

pseud. for Salomo Friedlaender

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Manolo Núñez Negrón

Es natural de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico y nació en 1980. Estudió Literatura e Historia Latinoamericana en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, en New York University y en Harvard, de donde se doctoró en 2010. Fue profesor de Estudios Hispánicos en Wellesley College, Massachusetts y es profesor adjunto de Español y Literatura Comparada en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras. Fue columnista de la sección Buscapié de El Nuevo Día y ha publicado un libro de relatos, El oficio del vértigo, que ganó el Premio Pen Club 2010, y una novela corta, Barra china (2012). Comida de peces es su segunda colección de cuentos.

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