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  Ramón Díaz Eterovic

  Ramón Díaz Eterovic es un escritor chileno, conocido principalmente por su detective privado Heredia, protagonista de más de una decena de novelas, que ha sido adaptado para la televisión en la serie Heredia y Asociados.
  
  Ramon Diaz Eterovic is a writer Chilean , known for his private detective Heredia, star of more than a dozen novels, which has been adapted for television in the series Heredia y Asociados.
  
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  Teresa Wilms Montt

  Teresa de las Mercedes Wilms Montt, nació el 8 de septiembre de 1893 en la ciudad de Viña del Mar, en el seno de una acomodada familia compuesta por Federico Guillermo Wilms Montt y Brieba, y su señora Luz Victoria Montt y Montt. Dado el contexto social de la época, su instrucción estuvo a cargo de institutrices y profesores particulares. Cuando Teresa tenía 17 años, contrajo matrimonio con Gustavo Balmaceda Valdés. En los años siguientes (1911 y 1913) nacieron sus dos únicas hijas, Elisa y Silvia Luz.
  
  A poco andar el matrimonio, comenzaron las desavenencias entre Gustavo y Teresa, principalmente debido a las molestias del primero ante la personalidad de su mujer, quien había comenzado a frecuentar tertulias y ateneos y se había adscrito a l

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  Paulo Coelho

  The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub

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  Laura Esquivel

  Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter, and former politician best known for her internationally acclaimed debut novel Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate). Blending magical realism with deep cultural roots, the novel became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States and was adapted into a successful film that received multiple international awards. Originally trained in education and theater, Esquivel began her career writing for children’s television and later moved into cinema and literature, often weaving food, family, and emotion into her stories.
  Esquivel’s fiction is known for its lyrical style and its exploration of love, tradition, and identity, frequently drawing on Mexican history and folklore. Her oth

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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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  Richard Bach

  
  Since Jonathan Livingston Seagull - which dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years - Richard Bach has touched millions of people through his humor, wisdom and insight.
  
  With over 60 million copies of his books sold, Richard Bach remains one of the world's most beloved authors. A former USAF fighter pilot, Air Force captain and latter-day barnstorming pilot, Bach continues to be an avid aviator-author, exploring and chronicling the joys and freedom of flying, reporting his findings to readers.
  
  His most recent works include Travels with Puff, which recounts Bach's journey from Florida to Washington state in his small seaplane, Puff, and Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant S

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  Irène Némirovsky

  Irène Némirovsky was born in Kyiv in 1903 into a successful banking family. Trapped in Moscow by the Russian Revolution, she and her family fled first to a village in Finland, and eventually to France, where she attended the Sorbonne.
  
  Irène Némirovsky achieved early success as a writer: her first novel, David Golder, published when she was twenty-six, was a sensation. By 1937 she had published nine further books and David Golder had been made into a film; she and her husband Michel Epstein, a bank executive, moved in fashionable social circles.
  
  When the Germans occupied France in 1940, she moved with her husband and two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, from Paris to the comparative safety of Issy-L’Evêque. It was there that she secretly began

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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".
  Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l

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  Stefan Zweig

  Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
  Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
  Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu

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  Hernán Rivera Letelier

  Until the age of 11 he lived in the Algorta saltpeter mining town (north of Chile), after that his family moves to Antofagasta city, where he works in numerous jobs. For three years he travel by Chile, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and Argentina , and later started living at Pedro de Valdivia (another saltpeter mining town), where he finish high school and graduates as secondary teacher in INACAP.
  He has received the Premio Consejo Nacional de Libro (Chilean National Book Award) twice, in 1994 and 1996.
  
  Winner of the Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2010, for his novel, El Arte de la Resurrección.

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  Robert Fisher

  One of the most prolific of sitcom writers, Fisher began in television the 1950s by pairing up with a veteran radio writer twenty-five years his senior named Alan Lipscott. Lipscott and Fisher wrote the first episode of the CBS-TV sitcom series Make Room For Daddy (starring Danny Thomas) in 1953, and went on to craft teleplays for The Donna Reed Show, Bachelor Father (which starred John Forsythe), Bronco, How to Marry a Millionaire, and others. Following Lipscott’s death in 1961, Fisher then began writing with Arthur Marx, and that partnership (which lasted for over twenty-five years) produced episodes of McHale's Navy, My Three Sons, The Mothers-in-Law, the short lived ABC-TV series The Paul Lynde Show, and NBC-TV's Life With Lucy in 1986.

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  Antonio Skármeta

  Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic was a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.

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  Jon Fosse

  Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.
  
  He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl

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  Agatha Christie

  Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
  
  Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen

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  Ramón Díaz Eterovic

  Ramón Díaz Eterovic es un escritor chileno, conocido principalmente por su detective privado Heredia, protagonista de más de una decena de novelas, que ha sido adaptado para la televisión en la serie Heredia y Asociados.
  
  Ramon Diaz Eterovic is a writer Chilean , known for his private detective Heredia, star of more than a dozen novels, which has been adapted for television in the series Heredia y Asociados.
  
  wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%...

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  Alejandra Costamagna

  Periodista y magíster en Literatura. Ha publicado las novelas En voz baja (Premio Juegos Literarios Gabriela Mistral 1996), Ciudadano en retiro (Planeta, 1998), Cansado ya del sol (Planeta, 2002), Dile que no estoy (finalista del Premio Planeta - Casa América 2007) y Naturalezas muertas (Cuneta, 2010), y los libros de cuentos Malas noches (Planeta, 2000), Últimos fuegos (Ediciones B, 2005) y Animales domésticos (Mondadori, 2011). Ha escrito para revistas como Gatopardo, Rolling Stone y El Malpensante. En 2003 obtuvo la beca del International Writing Program de la Universidad de Iowa, Estados Unidos. Su obra ha sido traducida al italiano, francés, danés y coreano. En Alemania le fue otorgado el Premio Literario Anna Seghers 2008 al mejor aut

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  Raúl Zurita

  Raúl Zurita was born in Santiago de Chile. In 1973 he was arrested by the Pinochet regime and imprisoned in the hold of a ship. He was a founder of the group Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), which undertook extremely risky public-art actions against the regime. In 1982 five airplanes wrote his poem “La Vida Nueva” in the sky above New York City, and in 1993 he had the phrase “NEITHER PAIN NOR FEAR” bulldozed into the Atacama Desert in a permanent, two-mile-long installation, visible only from above. Zurita received the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000 and the Asan Memorial World Poetry Prize in 2018.

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  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.
  
  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.

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  Luis Sepúlveda

  (Ovalle, Chile, 1949 – Oviedo, España, 2020) Luis Sepúlveda was a Chilean writer, film director, journalist and political activist. Exiled during the Pinochet regime, most of his work was written in Germany and Spain, where he lived until his death.
  
  Author of more than thirty books, translated into more than fifty languages, highlighting An Old Man Who Read Love Stories (Tusquets Ed., 2019) and The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Him to Fly (Tusquets Ed., 1996). Among his numerous awards are the Gabriela Mistral Poetry Award (Chile), the Primavera Novel Award (Spain) and the Chiara Award for Literary Career (Italy). Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and doctor honoris causa by the universities of Toulon (France) an

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  Elena Aldunate

  María Elena Aldunate Bezanilla, más conocida como Elena Aldunate fue una escritora feminista, cuentista y libretista de radio chilena, perteneciente al grupo de escritoras de la generación del 50. ​Incursionó en cuento, novela y relato corto dentro de los subgéneros como la ciencia ficción, fantasía, costumbrismo y literatura para niños.
  Debutó en el ámbito literario con Candia en 1950, y sus sucesivos tres trabajos abordaron la óptica feminista, hasta que en la década de 1970 incursionó en la ciencia ficción, género en el que se transformó como una de las autoras más prolíficas. En este contexto, es considerada como una de las pioneras de la ciencia ficción chilena junto a Francisco Miralles, Ernesto Silva Román, Luis Enrique Délano y Hugo

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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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  Hector Malot

  Hector Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.
  His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the streetmusician Vitalis at age 10. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.
  He announced his retirement as an author of fiction in 1895, but in 1896 he returned with the novel L'amour Dominateur as well as the account of hi

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  Teresa Wilms Montt

  Teresa de las Mercedes Wilms Montt, nació el 8 de septiembre de 1893 en la ciudad de Viña del Mar, en el seno de una acomodada familia compuesta por Federico Guillermo Wilms Montt y Brieba, y su señora Luz Victoria Montt y Montt. Dado el contexto social de la época, su instrucción estuvo a cargo de institutrices y profesores particulares. Cuando Teresa tenía 17 años, contrajo matrimonio con Gustavo Balmaceda Valdés. En los años siguientes (1911 y 1913) nacieron sus dos únicas hijas, Elisa y Silvia Luz.
  
  A poco andar el matrimonio, comenzaron las desavenencias entre Gustavo y Teresa, principalmente debido a las molestias del primero ante la personalidad de su mujer, quien había comenzado a frecuentar tertulias y ateneos y se había adscrito a l

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  Anne Jacobs

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name on GR

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  María José Ferrada

  María José Ferrada is the author of Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War. She is a recipient of the Municipal Prize of Literature of Santiago, as well as the Academy Award from the Chilean Academy of Language. María currently works as the children's editor of Chilean Memory, a digital resource center of the National Library of Chile.

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  Patricia Cerda Pincheira

  Patricia Cerda es una experta en la historia colonial chilena. En 1986, en plena Guerra Fría, llegó a Alemania para sacar un doctorado en historia en la Universidad de Berlín, y por más de dos décadas se especializó en interculturalidad y migración femenina. Durante aquel periodo se dedicó a la academia, pero luego dio un giro hacia la literatura. La oriunda de Concepción tiene una pluma única, y decidió utilizar ese talento para escribir sobre temas de ficción relacionados a sus vastos conocimientos sobre la historia colonial de Chile. El resultado es su primera novela, “Mestiza” (Ediciones B).

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  Dolores Reyes

  Dolores Reyes nació en 1978 en Buenos Aires, donde estudió literatura clásica. Es profesora, conocida por su activismo feminista y madre de siete hijos.
  
  Cometierra es su primera novela, que de inmediato se convirtió en un caso editorial y político en Argentina, para luego repuntar también en España. Está dedicado a la memoria de Melina Romero y Araceli Ramos, adolescentes víctimas de feminicidio, cuyos restos reposan en un cementerio cercano a la escuela de Pablo Podestá, en el área metropolitana de Buenos Aires donde trabaja la autora.
  
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  Dolores Reyes was born in 1978 in Buenos Aires, where she studied classical literature. She is a teacher, known for her feminist activism, and a mother of seven children.
  
  Eartheater is her first novel, which

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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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