Marcelo Cohen
Marcelo Cohen es escritor y traductor. Publicó novelas, relatos y ensayos. Ha traducido a William Shakespeare, T.S. Elliot, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Raymond Roussel, Henry James, Fernando Pessoa, John Dos Passos, Ray Bradbury, Italo Svevo, Clarice Lispector, Harold Brodkey, James Ballard, Martin Amis, Chris Kraus, Alasdair Gray y A.R. Ammons, entre muchos otros.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Harlan Jay Ellison (1934-2018) was a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism.
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His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of both The Outer Limits and Star Trek as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; edited the multiple-award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions; and served as creative consultant/writer to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.
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Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent literary figures of the Elizabethan Age.
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Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many books, including the Percy Jackson series.
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Sergio Bizzio
Sergio Bizzio es narrador, dramaturgo y director de cine. Publicó las novelas El divino convertible (1990), Infierno Albino (1992), Son del África (1993), Más allá del bien y lentamente (1995), Planet (1998), En esa época (2001), Rabia (2004), Era el cielo (2007), el libro de cuentos Chicos (2003), el ensayo en verso El genio argentino (2005), y las colecciones de poemas Gran salón con piano (1982), Mínimo figurado (1990), Paraguay (1995), El abanico matamoscas (2002), y Te desafío a correr como un idiota por el jardín (2008). Escribió las obras de teatro Gravedad (1999), La china (1995, en colaboración con Daniel Guebel), El amor (1995), y la novela El día feliz de Charlie Feiling (2006). Dirigió los largometrajes Animalada (2001), 100 tra
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Annie Ernaux
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.
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Lev Grossman
Hi! I'm the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy—The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician’s Land—which was adapted as a TV show that ran for five seasons on Syfy.
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I grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the son of two English professors. My twin brother Austin is a writer and game designer, and my older sister Sheba is an artist. Sometimes I live in Brooklyn, New York, other times in Sydney, Australia, where my wife is from. I have three kids and a someh -
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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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Ursula K. Le Guin
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She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mi -
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She majored in Spanish at the University of Cuyo in Mendoza, where she had lived since she was five years old. She worked as a teacher in that area.
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Her first novel, Los Días del Venado, was published in 2000 and was the first installment in a trilogy called La Saga de los Confines. The trilogy met favourable reviews and was awarded several prizes. She has also published the novels Memorias Impuras (2007) and El Espejo Africano (2008).
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Nació en Buenos Aires. Se licenció en la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de esa ciudad, donde ejerció como informático y, durante un tiempo, actor teatral. A los dieciocho años quemó todo lo que había escrito hasta entonces, y sólo a los cuarenta retomó la producción literaria. Su primera novela, Plop, obtuvo el Primer Premio de Novela Casa de las Américas en 2002. Fue editada en Cuba en 2003 y en Argentina en 2004, en la prestigiosa colección Línea C de narrativa fantástica y de ciencia ficción que dirigió Marcelo Cohen para Interzona editora. Desde su publicación en Argentina, Plop fue considerada una obra de culto, elogiada por la crítica como una novela excepcionalmente original y atípica. Lamentablemente la carrera literaria d
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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 -
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama." Ibsen is held to be the greatest of Norwegian authors and one of the most important playwrights of all time, celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians.
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His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when Victorian values of family life and propriety largely held sway in Europe and any challenge to them was considered immoral and outrageous. Ibsen's work examined the realities that lay behind many facades, possessing a revelatory nature that was disquieting to many contemporaries.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.
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He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army and serving in World War II.
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Liliana Colanzi (Santa Cruz, 1981). Escritora y periodista. Estudiante del doctorado de literatura comparada en Cornell, Estados Unidos. Sus cuentos han aparecido en revistas iberoamericanas como Etiqueta Negra, el perro, FronteraD, Otro Cielo, Los Noveles y Big Sur. Coeditó la antología de no-ficción Conductas erráticas (Alfaguara 2009). Es autora del libro de cuentos Vacaciones permanentes (El Cuervo 2010). -
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Rodrigo Fuentes
Considered to be one of the most prominent names among the new generation of Guatemalan writers, Rodrigo Fuentes (1984) won the Carátula Central American Short Story Prize (2014) as well as the Juegos Florales of Quetzaltenango Short Story Prize (2008). He is the co-founder and editor of the magazine Suelta and of the digital publishing house and literary journal Traviesa. Trout, Belly Up was shortlisted for the 2018 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez, the most prestigious prize awarded to short-story writers in Latin America. It has been published in Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile and Colombia, as well as in France. Rodrigo currently lectures at the College of the Holy Cross in the United States, and lives between Providen
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Alix E. Harrow
a former academic, adjunct, cashier, blueberry-harvester, and kentuckian, alix e. harrow is now a full-time writer living in virginia with her husband and their semi-feral kids.
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she is the hugo award-winning and nyt-bestselling author of THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY (2019), THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES (2020), a duology of fairytale novellas (A SPINDLE SPLINTERED and A MIRROR MENDED), STARLING HOUSE (2023) and various short fiction. her next book, THE EVERLASTING, will be out on october 28th, 2025!
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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.
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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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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.
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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