María Gainza
María Gainza nació en Buenos Aires. Trabajó en la corresponsalía de The New York Times en Buenos Aires y fue corresponsal de ArtNews. Durante más de diez años fue colaboradora regular de la revista Artforum y del suplemento Radar del diario Página/12. Ha dictado cursos para artistas y talleres de crítica de arte, y fue coeditora de la colección sobre arte argentino «Los Sentidos», de Adriana Hidalgo Editora. En 2011 publicó Textos elegidos, una selección de sus notas y ensayos sobre arte argentino. El nervio óptico, su primera incursión en la narrativa, ha sido traducida a diez idiomas y fue recibida con entusiasmo por la crítica: «Flamante primera novela» (Ana Wajszczuk, Página/12); «Se cuenta entre lo más trascendental (amén de íntimo
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César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He taught at the University of Buenos Aires (about Copi and Rimbaud) and at the University of Rosario (Constructivism and Mallarmé), and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. Perhaps one of the most prolific writers in Argentina, and certainly one of the most talked about in Latin America, Aira has published more than eighty books to date in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain, which have been translated for France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Romania, Russia, and now the United States. One novel, La prueba, has been made into a fe
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Sara Gallardo
Sara Gallardo Drago Mitre (*Buenos Aires, 23 de diciembre de 1931-†14 de junio de 1988) fue una escritora argentina de la generación de narradoras y poetas de la década del 50-60, durante el boom de la literatura latinoamericana, junto a colegas coterráneas como Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch, Beatriz Guido, Luisa Mercedes Levinson, Norah Lange, Alejandra Pizarnik, Elvira Orphée y Silvina Ocampo. Su novela Eisejuaz es un ejemplo del temprano realismo mágico sudamericano.
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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (San Isidro, 4 de noviembre de 1968) es una escritora y periodista argentina. Es considerada una de las figuras más prominentes de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea, además de ser una destacada intelectual y activista feminista y socioambientalista.
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Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (born in Buenos Aires in 1941), who normally goes by just his surname, Fogwill, was an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and novelist.
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Fogwill was full professor at the University of Buenos Aires< publisher of a legendary poetry book collection, essayist, and specialized columnist in communication subjects, literature and cultural politics. The success of his story "Muchacha punk" (Punk girl), which received the first prize in an important literary contest in 1980, made him leave his job as a businessman, and begin, according to his words, "a plot of misunderstandings and misfortunes" that took him to his present occupation as a writer. Some of his texts have made their way into diverse anthologies published -
Osvaldo Soriano
Soriano became a staff writer at La Opinión right from the start in 1971 when editor Jacobo Timerman founded the newspaper. La Opinión was permeated with progressive politics and soon there was an attempt to squash the left-wing influence with-in the paper. After six months of not having any of his articles published, Soriano began writing a story in which a character named Osvaldo Soriano reconstructs the life of English actor Stan Laurel.
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The work became his first novel, Triste, solitario y final (English: Sad, lonely and final), a melancholic parody set in Los Angeles with the famed fictional Philip Marlowe detective as his joint investigator. It was some months after the publication of his novel that he visited the American city, and act -
Beatriz Sarlo
Beatriz Sarlo was an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was also founding editor of the cultural journal Punto de Vista ("Point of View"). She became an Order of Cultural Merit laureate in 2009.
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Tamara Kamenszain
Tamara Kamenszain (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1947-Ibídem; 2021) fue una poeta y ensayista argentina. Estudió filosofía, trabajó desde muy joven en periodismo para después dedicarse a la enseñanza de la literatura. Pertenece, junto con Arturo Carrera y Néstor Perlongher, a la generación de poetas de los setenta llamados neobarrocos. Sus ensayos sobre poesía argentina y latinoamericana son material de estudio en universidades argentinas y del exterior. Sus libros de poesía fueron total o parcialmente traducidos a diversas lenguas y es considerada una de las voces que influyeron sobre las nuevas generaciones de poetas.
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Lucia Berlin
Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection, Angels Laundromat was published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic and Saul Bellow’s little magazine The Noble Savage.
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Berlin published six collections of short stories, but most of her work can be found in three later volumes from Black Sparrow Books: Homesick: New and Selected Stories, So Long: Stories 1987-92 and Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98.
Berlin was never a bestseller, but was widely influential within the literary community. She aspired to Chekhov's objectivity and refusal to judge. She has also -
Kenneth Cook
Born 1929, died 1987. Kenneth Cook was a prolific Australian journalist, film director, screenwriter, TV personality and novelist. He is best known for his novel Wake in Fright, which became a modern classic and is still in print, and for his Killer Koala trilogy.
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Diego Muzzio
Es narrador y poeta. Actualmente vive en Francia. En 1991 publicó su primer libro de poemas, El hueso del ojo. En 1996 obtuvo el Primer Premio de Poesía del Fondo Nacional de las Artes por su libro Sheol Sheol, publicado en 1997 por el Grupo Editor Latinoamericano. En el 2000 recibió el Primer Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz por Gabatha, publicado en México por la editorial Práctica Mortal, en el 2001. También ha publicado: Hieronymus Bosch, Segundo Premio de Poesía, Fondo Nacional de las artes, año 2004 (Ediciones del Dock, 2005), Tratado sobre la ejecución de animales (Honoarte, 2008), y El sistema defensivo de los muertos (Hilos editora, 2012).
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Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.
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She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered re -
Beatriz Sarlo
Beatriz Sarlo was an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was also founding editor of the cultural journal Punto de Vista ("Point of View"). She became an Order of Cultural Merit laureate in 2009.
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Pedro Mairal
Pedro Mairal es un escritor argentino.
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Autor de las novelas Una noche con Sabrina Love, por la cual recibió el premio Clarín de Novela en 1998, y El año del desierto. También ha publicado dos libros de poesía, Tigre como los pájaros y Consumidor final, y uno de cuentos, Hoy temprano. Su novela Una noche con Sabrina Love fue llevada al cine en 2000. Ha sido traducido y editado en Francia, Italia, España, Portugal, Polonia y Alemania. En 2007 fue incluido, por el jurado de Bogotá, entre los mejores escritores jóvenes latinoamericanos. -
Federico Falco
Federico Falco is the author of four collections of short stories, a book of poems, and two novels: Cielos de Córdoba (Córdoba Skies, 2011) and Los Llanos (The Plains, 2020). He holds a BA in Communications from Blas Pascal University in Argentina and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University. In 2010 Granta selected him as one of the Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and in 2017 A Perfect Cemetery was finalist for the García Márquez Short Story Prize. During 2012 he was writer in residence at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. Falco currently is the short story editor at Chai Editora, dedicated to international contemporary fiction not previously translated into Spanish. His most recent n
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Michel Nieva
Michel Nieva estudió Filosofía en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y actualmente es investigador doctoral y docente en la Universidad de Nueva York.
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Publicó el poemario Papelera de reciclaje (2011), las novelas ¿Sueñan los gauchoides con ñandúes eléctricos? (2013), Ascenso y apogeo del Imperio Argentino (2018) y el libro de ensayos Tecnología y barbarie (2020), de próxima aparición en Anagrama. En Anagrama ha publicado La infancia del mundo. Además escribió el guión del videojuego en 8 bits Elige tu propio gauchoide (basado en el universo de sus libros de ciencia ficción). -
Mariana Sández
Mariana Sández nació en Buenos Aires en 1973, y actualmente vive en Madrid. Es escritora, periodista y gestora cultural. Estudió Letras en Buenos Aires, Literatura Inglesa en Manchester y realizó un doctorado en Teoría Literaria y Literaturas Comparadas en Barcelona. Ha dirigido diversos programas culturales destacados en su país. Desde 2005 colabora con los suplementos literarios de los diarios argentinos La Nación y Clarín, y, desde 2021, con El periódico de España. Es autora del libro de entrevistas y ensayos El cine de Manuel: un recorrido sobre la obra de Manuel Antín (2010), del libro de cuentos Algunas familias normales (2021) y de la novela Una casa llena de gente (Impedimenta, 2022), para la cual recibió una Beca de Creación del Fo
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Andrés Montero
Escritor y narrador oral, cofundador de la Compañía La Matrioska. Es autor de "El año en que hablamos con el mar", "La muerte viene estilando", "Taguada" y "Tony Ninguno" y del ensayo "Por qué contar cuentos en el siglo XXI" y de los libros juveniles "Alguien toca la puerta", "Tres noches en la escuela", "En el horizonte se dibuja un barco" y "Bestiario de Chile".
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En 2017 obtuvo el X Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska de la Ciudad de México por la novela Tony Ninguno, y en 2022 recibió el Premio del Círculo de Críticos de Arte, el Premio de la Academia de la Lengua y el Premio Mejores Obras Literarias del Ministerio de las Culturas por La muerte viene estilando.
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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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Rosario Bléfari
Rosario Bléfari (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈsaɾjo βʟeˈfari]; 24 December 1965 – 6 July 2020) was an Argentine singer-songwriter, actress, and poet, widely considered an emblematic figure of Argentine independent music and cinema
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Cynthia Rimsky
Cynhia Rimsky nació en Santiago de Chile, en 1962. Ha publicado Poste restante, La novela de otro, Los Perplejos, Ramal, Fui, El futuro es un lugar extraño, En obra, La revolución a dedo. Escribe crónicas y columnas para diversas revistas y da clases en la UNA. Vive en Argentina desde 2012.
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Luciano Lamberti
Luciano Lamberti holds a bachelor's degree in modern literature from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. He writes for local and national media, works as a high school language teacher, and leads the creative-writing workshop of the Provincial Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Córdoba
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Natalia Litvinova
Natalia Litvinova nació en Gómel, Bielorrusia, el 10 de septiembre de 1986 y reside en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Traduce a poetas rusos. Publicó los poemarios Esteparia, Balbuceo de la noche, Grieta y Cartas de la locura, y tradujo la antología Rumbo a Karachnay de Shajriza Bogatyreva.
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Mariana Enriquez
Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es una periodista y escritora argentina.
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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, -
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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Eduardo Halfon
Eduardo Halfon nació en 1971 en la ciudad de Guatemala. Ha publicado Esto no es una pipa, Saturno (2003), De cabo roto (2003), El ángel literario (2004), Siete minutos de desasosiego (2007), Clases de hebreo (2008), Clases de dibujo (2009), El boxeador polaco (2008; Libros del Asteroide, 2019), La pirueta (2010), Mañana nunca lo hablamos (2011), Elocuencias de un tartamudo (2012), Monasterio (Libros del Asteroide, 2014), Signor Hoffman (Libros del Asteroide, 2015), Duelo (Libros del Asteroide, 2017), Clases de chapín (2017), Biblioteca bizarra (2018), Canción (Libros del Asteroide, 2021), Un hijo cualquiera (Libros del Asteroide, 2022) y Tarántula (Libros del Asteroide, 2024).
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Sara Gallardo
Sara Gallardo Drago Mitre (*Buenos Aires, 23 de diciembre de 1931-†14 de junio de 1988) fue una escritora argentina de la generación de narradoras y poetas de la década del 50-60, durante el boom de la literatura latinoamericana, junto a colegas coterráneas como Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch, Beatriz Guido, Luisa Mercedes Levinson, Norah Lange, Alejandra Pizarnik, Elvira Orphée y Silvina Ocampo. Su novela Eisejuaz es un ejemplo del temprano realismo mágico sudamericano.
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Romina Paula
Romina Paula nació en Buenos Aires en 1979. Es egresada de la Carrera de Dramaturgia de la EMAD. Como actriz se formó con Alejandro Catalán, Ricardo Bartís y Pompeyo Audivert y participó en las obras El Padre, con dirección de Pablo Ruiz, Darío tiene momentos de soledad, de Santiago Gobernori, La niña fría, con dirección de Daniel Veronese, La Pornografía y Los Demonios, de Gonzalo Martínez, El diván, de Michel Dydim y La Marea, de Mariano Pensotti. En cine trabajó en La punta del diablo de Marcelo Paván, Resfriada de Gonzalo Castro, en las películas El hombre robado,Todos mienten y Viola de Matías Piñeiro, en El Estudiante, de Santiago Mitre y en El día trajo la oscuridad. Recibió el Premio Sur a Revelación Femenina 2011 por su rol en El e
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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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Pedro Mairal
Pedro Mairal es un escritor argentino.
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Autor de las novelas Una noche con Sabrina Love, por la cual recibió el premio Clarín de Novela en 1998, y El año del desierto. También ha publicado dos libros de poesía, Tigre como los pájaros y Consumidor final, y uno de cuentos, Hoy temprano. Su novela Una noche con Sabrina Love fue llevada al cine en 2000. Ha sido traducido y editado en Francia, Italia, España, Portugal, Polonia y Alemania. En 2007 fue incluido, por el jurado de Bogotá, entre los mejores escritores jóvenes latinoamericanos. -
Anne Dufourmantelle
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Peter Rock
Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His most recent novel, Passersthrough, involves a murder house, a fax machine, communications between the living and the dead, and a mountain lake that moves from place to place. He is also the author of the novels The Night Swimmers, SPELLS, Klickitat, The Shelter Cycle, My Abandonment, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves and This Is the Place, as well as a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His
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María Teresa Andruetto
María Teresa Andruetto nació en Córdoba en 1954. Es una de las escritoras argentinas más prestigiosas y si bien es reconocida principalmente por su obra para niños y jóvenes, también tiene una voluminosa obra publicada para adultos. Cofundó CEDILIJ, Centro de Difusión e Investigación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil. Como parte de su obra podemos citar Sueño Americano (Caballo negro editora, 2009), Tendedero (CILC, 2009), la obra de teatro Enero (Ferreyra editor, 2005) y numerosos libros para niños y jóvenes, entre otros El anillo encantado (Sudamericana, 1993), Huellas en la arena (Sudamericana,1998), La mujer vampiro (Sudamericana, 2000), Benjamino (Sudamericana, 2003), Trenes (Alfaguara, 2007), El país de Juan (Anaya, 2003/Aique 2010), C
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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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María Negroni
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Marcial Gala
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Rodrigo Rey Rosa
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Attila Bartis
Attila Bartis s-a nascut in 1968 la Tirgu-Mures. In 1984 s-a mutat, impreuna cu familia sa, in Ungaria, iar in prezent traieste la Budapesta. Este un fotograf reputat si, totodata, unul dintre cei mai cunoscuti si mai apreciati scriitori maghiari ai momentului, cartile sale fiind traduse in numeroase limbi. A debutat in 1995 cu romanul A seta (Plimbarea), urmat de volumul de povestiri A keklo para (Ceata albastruie, 1998) si de romanele A nyugalom (Tihna, 2001), adaptat pentru scena si marele ecran si tradus in româneste in 2006, cu un succes considerabil in rindurile cititorilor, si A Lazar Apokrifek (Apocrifele lui Lazar, 2005). Attila Bartis a fost distins cu premiile Tibor Dery (1997), Sandor Marai (2002) si Attila Jozsef (2005)
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Arthur C. Danto
Arthur C. Danto was Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic for The Nation. He was the author of numerous books, including Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life, After the End of Art, and Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective.
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Vernon Lee
Violet Paget, known by her pen name Vernon Lee, is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel, poetry and contributed to The Yellow Book. An engaged feminist, she always dressed à la garçonne, and was a member of the Union of democratic control.
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Her literary works explored the themes of haunting and possession. The English writer and translator, Montague Summers described Vernon Lee as "the greatest [...] of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction."
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Pedro Saborido
Pedro Saborido es un productor y guionista de radio, teatro y TV de la Argentina. Con una larga trayectoria, ha adquirido popularidad y reconocimiento trabajando junto al actor y guionista Diego Capusotto, con quien escribió su primer libro "Peter Capusotto: el libro", basado en "Peter Capusotto y sus videos", programa que realizan juntos.
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Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) was a prominent German philosopher, known for his work in intellectual history and phenomenology. He is best remembered for his development of "metaphorology," a method that investigates the role of metaphors in shaping human thought, particularly in philosophy and culture. Blumenberg's most famous works include The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (1966) and The Genesis of the Copernican World (1975), where he explored the historical and philosophical implications of metaphors and their transformative effects on human understanding.
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Born in Lübeck, Germany, Blumenberg's career spanned several prestigious academic positions, including professorships at the University of Hamburg, University of Gießen, and University of -
Gabrielle Vincent
Monique Martin, alias Gabrielle Vincent, was a writer and illustrator of children's books from Belgium. She was born in Brussels on 9 September 1928, and died there on 24 September 2000. Her nom de plume is derived from the first names of her grandparents, Gabrielle and Vincent.
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Osvaldo Lamborghini
Osvaldo Lamborghini fue un escritor y poeta argentino. Tras su exilio del país en 1976, vivió los últimos diez años de su vida en Barcelona, España.
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Jason Y. Ng
Born in Hong Kong, Jason Y. Ng is a globe-trotter who spent his entire adult life in Italy, the United States and Canada before returning to his birthplace to rediscover his roots. He is a full-time lawyer, a published author and a freelance writer, contributing regularly to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), TimeOut, EJInsight, and Hong Kong Free Press.
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Jason is the bestselling author of "HONG KONG State of Mind" (2010) and "No City for Slow Men" (2013). His latest tome, "Umbrellas in Bloom" (2016), is the first book published in English to chronicle the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Together, the three books form his “Hong Kong Trilogy” that tracks the city's post-colonial development. Jason's short stories have appeared in various an -
Hernán Ronsino
Hernán Ronsino es escritor, profesor y sociólogo. Nació en Chivilcoy, provincia de Buenos Aires, en 1975. Reside en Capital desde el año 1994. Publicó su primer libro de relatos “Te vomitaré de mi boca” que fue presentado en la 29° Feria Internacional del Libro.
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Disertó acerca de la creación literaria y de cómo las fantasías se plasman en una obra escrita.
“Te vomitaré de mi boca” obtuvo la Mención Honorífica del Fondo Nacional de las Artes en el 2002.
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Manuel Ramos Otero
Manuel Ramos Otero was a Puerto Rican writer. He is widely considered to be the most important openly gay twentieth-century Puerto Rican writer who wrote in Spanish, and his work was often controversial due to its sexual and political content.
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Marosa Di Giorgio
Marosa di Giorgio (1932–2004) was a Uruguayan poet and novelist.
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Marosa di Giorgio is considered one of the most singular voices in Latin America. Critics tend to agree that her writing is greatly influenced by European surrealism, although her vocabulary, style, and imagery are uniquely her own. Her work deals predominately with the imaginary world of childhood and nature.
In the past few years, Latin American critics such as Hugo Achugar, Luis Bravo, Leonardo Garet, Sylvia Guerra, María Alejandra Minelli, and María Rosa Olivera-Williams have explored Marosa Di Giorgio's writing. Uruguayan poet Roberto Echavarren published in 1991 "Transplatinos", which offers an excellent introduction to Di Giorgio's writing. Selected poems from The March H -
Rafael Argullol
Rafael Argullol Murgadas (Barcelona, 1949), narrador, poeta y ensayista, es catedrático de Estética y Teoría de las Artes en la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Es autor de más de treinta libros en distintos ámbitos literarios. Entre ellos: poesía (Disturbios del conocimiento, Duelo en el Valle de la Muerte, El afilador de cuchillos), novela (Lampedusa, El asalto del cielo, Desciende, río invisible, La razón del mal, Transeuropa, Davalú o el dolor, Pasión del dios que quiso ser hombre) y ensayo (La atracción del abismo, El Héroe y el Único, El fin del mundo como obra de arte, Aventura: Una filosofía nómada, Manifiesto contra la servidumbre, Maldita perfección. Escritos sobre el sacrificio y la celebración de la bellez
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Louise Willder
Louise Willder (Gravesend, 1972) es escritora y redactora publicitaria británica. Por más de veinticinco años ha escrito textos de contracubierta para más de cinco mil libros, que van desde ensayos clásicos hasta novelas posmodernas.
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Natália Correia
Natália de Oliveira Correia foi uma escritora e poeta portuguesa. Deputada à Assembleia da República (1980-1991), interveio politicamente ao nível da cultura e do património, na defesa dos direitos humanos e dos direitos das mulheres. Autora da letra do Hino dos Açores. Juntamente com José Saramago (Prémio Nobel de Literatura, 1998), Armindo Magalhães, Manuel da Fonseca e Urbano Tavares Rodrigues foi, em 1992, um dos fundadores da Frente Nacional para a Defesa da Cultura (FNDC). Tem uma biblioteca com o seu nome em Lisboa em Carnide.
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Alberto Giordano
Alberto Giordano was born in Rufino, in 1959, and has lived in Rosario since 1971. He is a professor and essayist.
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Vitaly Shentalinsky
Vitaly Shentalinsky (Виталий Шенталинский in Russian) - poet and writer - was born in Siberia. He studied journalism and worked as a journalist and for radio and television. He spent the winter at the polar station on Wrangel Island, and participated in five high latitude expeditions.
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