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  Umberto Jara

  Es escritor, periodista y abogado. Estudió en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, donde se graduó en Letras y Derecho y luego se desempeñó como catedrático en la Facultad de Derecho. Ha ejercido el periodismo en prensa gráfica, radio y televisión realizando coberturas sobre terrorismo, narcotráfico y campañas electorales.
  
  Ha sido editor de las revistas "Debate" y "Semana Económica" del Grupo Apoyo (1988-1990), editor de la revista cultural "El Suplemento" (1990-1992), editor general del diario "Expreso" (1991-1992), director del programa televisivo "Panorama" (1993-1996) y director del quincenario "Cero" (2006). Ha ejercido también el periodismo deportivo dirigiendo las coberturas de los Mundiales de Futbol Estados Unidos 94 (Paname

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  John Steinbeck

  John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
  During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American

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  Homer

  Homer (Greek: Όμηρος born c. 8th century BC) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history.
  Homer's Iliad centers on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the last year of the Trojan War. The Odyssey chronicles the ten-year journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a literary language which shows a mixture of features of the Ionic and Aeolic dialects from different centuries; the predominant influence is Eastern Ionic. Most researchers believe

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  Virginia Woolf

  (Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
  
  During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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  Walter Isaacson

  Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of 'Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu and on Twitter at @WalterIsaacson

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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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  D.H. Lawrence

  David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.
  
  Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time

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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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  Jaime Bayly

  Jaime Bayly Letts es un escritor, presentador y periodista peruano nacionalizado estadounidense y radicado en Miami. Se destaca por su humor ácido y su escritura ágil, dinámica y entretenida.
  
  
  

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  Yuval Noah Harari

  Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today.
  
  Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.

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  Gustavo Rodríguez

  Gustavo Rodríguez (Lima, 1968) es escritor y comunicador. Ha publicado las novelas "La furia de Aquiles" y "La risa de tu madre", esta última, finalista del Premio Herralde. Su novela "La semana tiene siete mujeres" fue finalista del premio Planeta-Casamérica. "Cocinero en su tinta" es su novela más reciente.
  
  Las distinciones a la creatividad que ha obtenido en su faceta como comunicador son numerosas. Campañas suyas han movilizado a su país en varias oportunidades: basta recordar la que originó el “Día del Pisco” en 2003 luego de iniciar una guerra comercial con Chile. En el año 2006 el Consejo Nacional de Educación le confirió el Premio al Periodismo en la categoría Internet. Ha sido condecorado por su aporte creativo al país por el Indeco

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  Renato Cisneros

  Nació en Lima en 1976. Es periodista y escritor. Son suyos los poemarios: Ritual de los prójimos (1998), Máquina fantasma (2001) y Nuevos poemas italianos (2007). Ha publicado además las novelas Nunca confíes en mí (Alfaguara, 2011), Raro (Alfaguara, 2012), que contó con ilustraciones de Alfonso Vargas; y muy recientemente La distancia que nos separa (Ed.Planeta), que se convirtió en el título más vendido de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Lima 2015 Entre 2007 y 2010 administró el conocido blog «Busco Novia». Por once años escribió crónicas para el diario El Comercio. Actualmente (setiembre 2015) firma columnas semanales en La República y colabora con programas en el Grupo RPP. Desde agosto de este año radica en Madrid.

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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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