Marcela Paz

Marcela Paz was the pen name of Esther Huneeus Salas de Claro, a Chilean writer. She also used the pen names of Paula de la Sierra, Lukim Retse, P. Neka and Juanita Godoy.

She began publishing in magazines such as El Peneca, Ecran, Zig-Zag, Eva and Margarita, and newspapers like La Nación, El Mercurio and La Tercera. In 1933 she published her first book: Tiempo, papel y lápiz.

In 1947 Paz published the first book with her most famous character, Papelucho. Papelucho became a companion and an inspiration to generations of children and perhaps one of Chile's most well known humanized characters of the twentieth century. Between 1964 and 1967, she directed the Asociación Internacional del Libro Juvenil (IBBY).

In 1968 she received the Hans Christi

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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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Jean Webster

Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her most well-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.
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Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was an Uruguayan novelist, poet, and (above all) short story writer.

He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.

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Piers Paul Read

British novelist and non-fiction writer. Educated at the Benedictines' Ampleforth College, and subsequently entered St John's College, University of Cambridge where he received his BA and MA (history). Artist-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in Berlin (1963-4), Harkness Fellow, Commonwealth Fund, New York (1967-8), member of the Council of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1971-5), member of the Literature Panel at the Arts Council, (1975-7), and Adjunct Professor of Writing, Columbia University, New York (1980). From 1992-7 he was Chairman of the Catholic Writers' Guild. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).

His most well-known work is the non-fiction Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974), an account of the
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Ann Cameron

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Ann Cameron grew up in Wisconsin. Today, she and her husband live in Guatemala. From her house she can see a waterfall and three volcanoes. Ann Cameron has been a teacher and an editor as well as a writer.

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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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Edmondo de Amicis

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Francisca Solar

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Enrique Lafourcade

Enrique Lafourcade Valdenegro was a Chilean writer, critic and journalist.

As a writer, Lafourcade published at least 24 novels (over 30 by some accounts) and over a dozen anthologies and collections of short stories and essays. His novel "Palomita Blanca" (1971) sold over a million copies, making it one of the all time best sellers in Chile. This novel was translated to several languages and brought to the screen by Chilean-French director Raúl Ruiz.

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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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Baldomero Lillo

Cuentista chileno, considerado el maestro del género del realismo social en su país. Una de sus obras más famosas es Subterra, que retrata la vida de los mineros del carbón de Lota, y en particular en la mina Chiflón del Diablo.

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Jorge Baradit

Jorge Baradit M (1969), comunicador visual y escritor, ex integrante de banda punk rock, cruza la ciudad en su moto Steed de 600 cc, evadiendo el grasoso tendido urbano como una neurona atrasada.

Publica el 2005 su novela YGDRASIL, obteniendo el reconocimiento sorprendido de la crítica y el público. El 2006 gana en España el premio UPC, de la Universidad de Catalunya, el más importante de la Ciencia Ficción en castellano y uno de los más respetados del mundo, con su novela TRINIDAD. En junio de 2007 publica YGDRASIL en España, a través del grupo Zeta para su colección NOVA, convirtiéndose de paso en uno de los autores de género más relevante en la historia de la Ciencia Ficción chilena. El 2008, la antología UPC encabezada por TRINIDAD gana
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Hernán del Solar

Realizó sus estudios en el Colegio San Juan Bautista de la Salle. En 1920 comienza a trabajar en la revista Zig Zag donde llega a ser Secretario de redacción y jefe del departamento editorial. En 1928 funda la revista Letras, junto a Salvador Reyes, Luis Enrique Délano y otros escritores de la corriente imaginista.1

Fue asesor literario de la revista Ercilla (1935) y de la editorial Nascimento. En 1946 funda, con el escritor Francesc Trabal, la editorial Rapa Nui, destinada a la publicación de libros para niños. Trabajó en las revistas Atenea, Excelsior, Pro Arte, La Semana y La Quincena, también en los diarios El Debate y Olimpia de Buenos Aires. Tuvo a su cargo la revista Hoy. Fue crítico literario en los diarios chilenos El Mercurio y La
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Mauricio Paredes

Estudió en The Grange School y luego en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, donde se tituló de Ingeniero Civil Eléctrico con distinción. Ejerció su profesión hasta abril del año 2001, momento en que decidió seguir su vocación literaria.

Su estilo es humorístico, irónico, incluso irreverente y de una gran profundidad emocional.

Además de escribir, se dedica a la investigación y difusión de la literatura infantil. Ha sido profesor universitario en la cátedra de Literatura infantil, colaborador del Ministerio de Educación de Chile, guionista de televisión y Presidente de la Corporación del libro infantil de Chile, IBBY. Ha realizado más de 1.000 presentaciones para niños y conferencias para padres, profesores y especialistas, en particu
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Alia Trabucco Zerán

Alia Trabucco Zerán (born 1983) is a Chilean writer. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and has a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from University College London. Her debut novel La Resta (The Remainder) was critically acclaimed. The English translation was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019.

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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".

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.

También ha recibido el Premio Marta Brunet, el Premio Municipal d
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Mauricio Paredes

Estudió en The Grange School y luego en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, donde se tituló de Ingeniero Civil Eléctrico con distinción. Ejerció su profesión hasta abril del año 2001, momento en que decidió seguir su vocación literaria.

Su estilo es humorístico, irónico, incluso irreverente y de una gran profundidad emocional.

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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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Ann Cameron

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Ann Cameron grew up in Wisconsin. Today, she and her husband live in Guatemala. From her house she can see a waterfall and three volcanoes. Ann Cameron has been a teacher and an editor as well as a writer.

She says that writing is hardest for her at the beginning of a book. To get started, she follows this important rule for writing: "Apply seat of pants to bottom of chair."
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Jorge Baradit

Jorge Baradit M (1969), comunicador visual y escritor, ex integrante de banda punk rock, cruza la ciudad en su moto Steed de 600 cc, evadiendo el grasoso tendido urbano como una neurona atrasada.

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Ana Maria Machado

Ana Maria Machado was born in 1941 in Rio de Janeiro and is, alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha, one of the most significant children's book authors in Brazil. She started her career as a painter in Rio de Janeiro and New York City. After studying Romance languages she did a PhD with Roland Barthes at the 'École pratique des hautes études' in Paris. She worked as journalist for the magazine 'Elle' in Paris and the BBC in London. In 1979, she opened the first children’s literature bookshop in Brazil, 'Malasartes'.

In 1969, Ana Maria Machado started to write. "I belong to that generation of writers who began to write during the military dictatorship, as children’s literature, alongside poetry and song texts, were amongst the few lite
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Jacqueline Balcells

Seudónimo de Jaqueline Marty Aboitiz. Estudió Periodismo en la Universidad Católica de Santiago.

Jacqueline Balcells, comenzó a escribir cuentos para niños cuando nacieron sus hijos. Pero sólo los publicó cuando llegó a vivir a Francia en el año 1982. Vuelve a Chile en 1986, dedicándose de lleno a la literatura infantil.

La obra de Jacqueline Balcells ha sido traducida al inglés y se ha editado en Estados Unidos por la Latin American Literary Review Press.

Ha escrito numerosos libros en coautoría con Ana María Güiraldes.

Premios: (1990) Lista de Honor del IBBY por "El Polizón de la Santa María", 1988
(1992) Trofeo Bonnemine D'Or en 1992 por Léo contre Léa de la colección J'aime Lire de Bayard Presse

Jacqueline Balcells ha creado numerosos tallere
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