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  Virgilio Piñera

  Virgilio Piñera Llera was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.
  Among his most famous poems are "La isla en peso" (1943), and "La gran puta" (1960). He was a member of the "Origenes" literary group, although he often differed with the conservative views of the group. In the late 1950s he co-founded the literary journal Ciclón. Following a long exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Piñera returned to Cuba in 1958, months before Fidel Castro took power.
  His work includes essays on literature and literary criticism, several collections of short stories compiled under the title of Cold Tales, a great number of dramatic works, and three novels: La carne de René (Rene's Flesh), Presiones y Diamantes (Pressures and Diamonds

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  Sergio de Cecco

  Sergio De Cecco, cuyo nombre completo era Sergio Amadeo De Cecco, también conocido con los seudónimos de Javier Sanchez y Amadeo Salazar, fue un periodista, actor, dramaturgo y guionista de cine y de radio que nació en Buenos Aires en 1931 y falleció en la misma ciudad el 26 de noviembre de 1986. Recibió varios premios por su producción; su obra más difundida es El reñidero que fue representada en muchas oportunidades en su país y fuera de él y también llevada al cine.

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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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  Euripides

  Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (ca. 480 BC–406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect). There are many fragments (some substantial) of most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
  Eur

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  Sophocles

  Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής ; German: Sophokles , Russian: Софокл , French: Sophocle ) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia

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  Herman Melville

  There is more than one author with this name
  
  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
  Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a mer

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  Raymond Carver

  Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. He married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit', a career that would eventually kill him. Constantly struggling to support his wife and family, Carver enrolled in a writing programme under author John Gardner in 1958. He saw this opportunity as a turning point.
  
  Rejecting the more experimental fiction of the 60s and 70s, he pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties, heading the line of so-called 'dirty realists' or 'K-mart realists'. Set in trailer parks and shopping malls, they are stories of banal lives that turn on a seemingly insignificant detai

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  Charles Bukowski

  Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books
  
  Charles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to

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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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  Bertolt Brecht

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.
  
  From his late twenties Brecht remained a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Piscator and Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political

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  Manuel Mujica Lainez

  Manuel Bernabé Mújica Láinez fue un escritor, biógrafo, crítico de arte y periodista argentino.
  
  En 1936, publicó Glosas castellanas, una serie de ensayos centrados en su mayor parte en el Quijote.
  
  Tres años después, publicó Don Galaz de Buenos Aires. Le siguen las biografías de su antepasado Miguel Cané (padre), en 1942, más las de Hilario Ascasubi (Aniceto, el Gallo, 1943) y de Estanislao del Campo (Anastasio, el Pollo, 1947).
  
  En 1949, publicó un libro de cuentos, Aquí vivieron, en torno a una quinta de San Isidro.
  
  Su segundo libro de cuentos, Misteriosa Buenos Aires, se ambientó también en la capital de la Argentina y su historia desde la fundación, en la que mezcla personajes típicos ficticios con hechos y personajes reales.
  
  Le siguieron una

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  Federico García Lorca

  Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.
  

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  Griselda Gambaro

  Novelista y dramaturga, Griselda Gambaro nació en Buenos Aires en 1928. Comenzó a escribir tempranamente, dedicándose en principio a la narrativa, género que alternó después con la dramaturgia.
  
  Desempeñó distintos trabajos hasta que la obtención de premios y la percepción de sus derechos de autor le permitieron, hacia 1982, vivir de su tarea específica. Durante la dictadura militar argentina, un decreto del general Videla prohibió su novela “Ganarse la muerte” por encontrarla contraria a la institución familiar y al orden social. Debido a ésto y a la situación imperante, se exilió en Barcelona, España.
  
  Actualmente reside en un barrio suburbano de la provincia de Buenos Aires.
  
  
  
  Griselda Gambaro was born in Buenos Aires. Although known primarily

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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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  Héctor Germán Oesterheld

  Héctor Germán Oesterheld Puyol fue un guionista de historietas y escritor de relatos breves argentino de ciencia ficción y novelas
  
  Seudónimos: H. Sturgiss, C. de la Vega, Francisco G. Vázquez, Germán Sturgiss, Héctor Sánchez Puyol, Joe Trigger, Patrick Hanson.
  
  Nació en el año 1919 en Buenos Aires. Hijo de Ferdinand Kurt. Estudió y se graduó en la carrera de geología. Fanático de H. Melville y Joseph Conrad. A partir de 1950 cuando comienza a escribir guiones de historietas y relatos de aventuras.
  Publicó en las revistas "Misterix", "Hora Cero", "Frontera", entre otras. Sus personajes más conocidos son Sargento Kirk, Bull Rocket, Ernie Pike, Sherlock Time y Mort Cinder. Pero es sin dudas El Eternauta la creación que le ha dado un lugar entre lo

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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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  Sergio Aguirre

  Sergio Aguirre es un escritor argentino de novelas de misterio.
  
  Desde su niñez se sintió atraído por la lectura, y se considera escritor desde los 12 años.
  
  El libro Intimidades de un psiquiatra, de David Viscott lo llevó a interesarse por esto: "...me identifiqué con el personaje me gustó la profesión, que era sentarse y escuchar historias extrañas, ayudar a la gente, curar... Estudié psicología, luego me interesé por el psicoanálisis, por Lacan..."
  Como psicólogo, estuvo a cargo de la coordinación del Taller Literario del Hospital Neuropsiquiátrico de Córdoba.
  
  Una de sus obras más reconocidas, Los vecinos mueren en las novelas, fue adaptada para teatro.
  
  En los planes de estudio de colegios de varios países latinoamericanos figuran sus libros co

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  Ferdinand von Schirach

  Ferdinand von Schirach (born 1964 in Munich) is a German lawyer and writer. He published his first short stories at the age of forty-five. Shortly thereafter he became one of Germany's most successful authors. His books, which have been translated into more than 35 languages, have sold millions of copies worldwide and have made him an internationally celebrated star of German literature.

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  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Adolfo Vicente Perfecto Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was born in Buenos Aires, the child of wealthy parents. He began to write in the early Thirties, and his stories appeared in the influential magazine Sur, through which he met his wife, the painter and writer Silvina Ocampo, as well Jorge Luis Borges, who was to become his mentor, friend, and collaborator. In 1940, after writing several novice works, Bioy published the novella The Invention of Morel, the first of his books to satisfy him, and the first in which he hit his characteristic note of uncanny and unexpectedly harrowing humor. Later publications include stories and novels, among them A Plan for Escape, A Dream of Heroes, and Asleep in the Sun. Bioy also collaborated with Borges on an

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  Mariana Enriquez

  Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es una periodista y escritora argentina.
  
  Se recibió de Licenciada en Comunicación Social en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Se ha desempeñado profesionalmente como periodista y columnista en medios gráficos, como el suplemento Radar del diario Página/12 (donde es sub-editora) y las revistas TXT, La mano, La mujer de mi vida y El Guardián. También participó en radio, como columnista en el programa Gente de a pie, por Radio Nacional.
  
  Trabajó como jurado en concursos literarios y dictó talleres de escritura en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez
  Mariana Enriquez is a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and has published two story collections in English,

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  Tomás Downey

  Tomás Downey (Buenos Aires, 1984) es guionista, egresado de la ENERC, y autor de una novela aún inédita. Actualmente, trabaja en un nuevo libro de relatos. Acá el tiempo es otra cosa es la obra ganadora del Primer Premio en género cuento del Fondo Nacional de las Artes, edición 2013. El jurado estuvo integrado por José María Brindisi, Mariana Enriquez y Guillermo Saccomanno.

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  Alejandra Kamiya

  Alejandra Kamiya (Buenos Aires, 13 de febrero de 1966) es una escritora argentina. De ascendencia japonesa, su obra, compuesta por tres libros de cuentos, aúna las culturas argentina y japonesa, y aborda las temáticas de los vínculos afectivos, la vida cotidiana y la muerte.
  
  Recibió, entre otros, los premios Universidad Católica Argentina-SUTERH (2007), Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires (2008), Max Aub (2010), Horacio Quiroga (2012) y Unicaja (2014).​ En 2024, recibió un Premio Konex por su labor como cuentista.

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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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