Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. He is considered one of Latin America's most important 20th-century writers.
Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy.
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Julio Ramón Ribeyro Zúñiga was a Peruvian writer best known for his short stories. He was also successful in other genres: novel, essay, theater, diary and aphorism. In the year of his death, he was awarded the Premio Juan Rulfo de literatura latinoamericana y del Caribe. His work has been translated into numerous languages, including English.
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The characters in his stories, often autobiographical and usually written in simple but ironic language, tend to end up with their hopes cruelly dashed. But despite its apparent pessimism, Ribeyro's work is often comic, its humor springing from both the author's sense of irony and the accidents that befall his protagonists. The collective work of his short stories is published under the title La palabr -
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José María Arguedas Altamirano fue un escritor, poeta, traductor, profesor, antropólogo y etnólogo peruano. Fue autor de novelas y cuentos que lo han llevado a ser considerado como uno de los grandes representantes de la literatura en el Perú.
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Nacido dentro de una prominente familia de banqueros, sus padres fueron Francisco Bryce Arróspide y Elena Echenique Basombrío de Bryce. Su tatarabuelo, José Rufino Echenique, fue presidente del Perú en 1851, y su familia está relacionada con la francesa Flora Tristán y con el barón Clemens Althaus de Hesse.
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Bryce Echenique, educado en el seno de la oligarquía limeña, cursó sus estudios primarios, en el Inmaculado Corazón, y secundarios, en el Santa María Marianistas y, luego, tras un incidente en este colegio por el que hubo de ser hospitalizado, ingresó al San Pablo, un internado británico en Lima. En 1957, ingresó a la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos y se licenció en Derecho, obteniendo el título de Doctor en Letras en (1977). Fue -
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history.
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The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."
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Gayl Jones
Gayl Jones is an African-American writer from Lexington, Kentucky. Her most famous works are Corregidora, Eva's Man, and The Healing.
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Jones is a 1971 graduate of Connecticut College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English. While attending the college she also earned the Frances Steloff Award for Fiction. She then began a graduate program in creative writing at Brown University, studying under poet Michael Harper and earning a Master of Arts in 1973 and a Doctor of Arts in 1975.
Harper introduced Jones's work to Toni Morrison, who was an editor at the time, and in 1975, Jones published her first novel Corregidora at the age of 26. That same year she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Michigan, which hired her the f -
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Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima
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Elyse Durham
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Aline Bei
Aline Bei nasceu em São Paulo, em 1987. É formada em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo e em Artes Cênicas pelo Teatro Escola Célia-Helena. É editora e colunista do site cultural OitavaArte. O peso do pássaro morto é o seu primeiro livro.
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Mariana Salomão Carrara
Mariana Salomão Carrara é paulistana, escritora e Defensora Pública, nascida em 1986. Tem publicados um livro de contos (Delicada uma de nós – Off-Flip, 2015), e os romances Idílico (EI, 2007), Fadas e copos no canto da casa (Quintal Edições, 2017), Se deus me chamar não vou (Editora nós, 2019, entre os 10 indicados ao Prêmio Jabuti 2020, em Romance Literário), “É sempre a hora da nossa morte amém” (Editora Nós, 2021, finalista do Prêmio São Paulo 2022 e entre os 10 indicados ao Jabuti 2022),”Não fossem as sílabas do sábado” (Todavia, junho/2022, Vencedor do Prêmio São Paulo 2023, Melhor Romance do Ano) e A árvore mais sozinha do mundo (Todavia, agosto/2024). Por contos e poemas avulsos, recebeu na juventude prêmios nacionais como Off-flip
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Djaïli Amadou Amal
Djaïli Amadou Amal, née en 1975 à Maroua dans le département de Diamaré situé dans la région de l'Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, est une militante féministe et écrivaine camerounaise.
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Djaïli Amadou Amal entreprend des études supérieures en gestion commerciale. Mariée à dix-sept ans dans le cadre d'un mariage arrangé, Djaïli a connu tout ce qui rend si difficile la vie des femmes du Sahel. « Dans tout ce que je fais, j'essaie surtout de parler des discriminations faites aux femmes ; c'est mon cheval de bataille ! La presse camerounaise m'a même surnommée la "voix des sans voix" ! ». Djaïli Amadou Amal dénonce les pesanteurs sociales liées aux traditions et aux religions1. A travers l'écriture elle dénonce en somme les problèmes sociaux de sa régio -
Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
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From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
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Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker, each time receivin
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Branimir Šćepanović
Branimir Šćepanović (Бранимир Шћепановић) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer. He was born in Podgorica, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father was a teacher and a published author. Young Šćepanović started writing while still being a student in high school.
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His famous novel Usta puna zemlje (Mouth full of earth) had 32 editions in Serbia and 23 editions in France. Šćepanović's 1977 novel, Smrt gospodina Goluže (The Death of Mr. Goluzha) was adapted in 1997 by Alan Wade for the film he directed, and was released by Fine Line Features and New Line International.
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Filipa Fonseca Silva
Filipa Fonseca Silva was born in a small town called Barreiro, just across from Lisbon, Portugal, in 1979.
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She graduated in Communication from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and worked as an advertising copywriter until 2017. She is now a fulltime writer.
Her debut novel is called Thirty Something – Nothing’s How We Dreamed It Would Be and it made her the only Portuguese author to reach Amazon Top100 in Women's Fiction. It was followed by The Strange Year of Vanessa M (2013), Things a Mother Discovers (and no one talks about), Taxi Tales (2017), I Hate My Boss (2018), The Elevator (finalist of Bertrand Book of the Year 2022), What if I Die Tomorrow? (finalist of Bertrand Book of the Year 2023) and Brave Green World (June 2024).
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Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
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He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
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Socorro Acioli
A Brazilian journalist, novelist and children's author, Socorro Acioli (1975- ) holds a masters in Brazilian literature, and began her literary career in 2001, going on to publish in a number of genres, for both adult and child readers. She has participated in a workshop run by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; has done research at the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany; and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literary Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro.
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Socorro Acioli (Fortaleza, 24 de fevereiro de 1975) é uma escritora brasileira, formada em Comunicação Social com habilitação em jornalismo, mestre em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade Federal do Ceará e Doutoranda em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade Fede -
Jaime Sabines
Poeta y político mexicano, considerado como uno de los grandes poetas mexicanos del siglo XX
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Sus primeros pasos por la poesía fueron "Instrospección", "A mi madre", "Siento que te pierdo" y "Primaveral", los anteriores fueron publicados en el periódico El Estudiante, una publicación de las sociedades estudiantiles de la Escuela Normal y de la Preparatoria de Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
En 1949 regresa a la Ciudad de México para ingresar a la licenciatura en «Lengua y literatura española» en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Fue alumno de Julio Torri, Agustín Yáñez, José Gaos y Eduardo Nicol. Entre sus compañeros de clase, destacan los nombres de Emilio Carballido, Sergio Magaña, Sergio Galindo, Rosario Cas -
Julio Cortázar
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Juan Rulfo
Juan Perez Rulfo
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Juan Rulfo nació el 16 de mayo de 1917 Él sostuvo que esto ocurrió en la casa familiar de Apulco, Jalisco, aunque fue registrado en la ciudad de Sayula, donde se conserva su acta de nacimiento. Vivió en la pequeña población de San Gabriel, pero las tempranas muertes de su padre, primero (1923), y de su madre poco después (1927), obligaron a sus familiares a inscribirlo en un internado en Guadalajara, la capital del estado de Jalisco.
Durante sus años en San Gabriel entró en contacto con la biblioteca de un cura (básicamente literaria), depositada en la casa familiar, y recordará siempre estas lecturas, esenciales en su formación literaria. Algunos acostumbran destacar su temprana orfandad como determinante en su vocación artí -
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.
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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 -
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in 1904 in Parral, Chile, was a poet, diplomat, and politician, widely considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. From an early age, he showed a deep passion for poetry, publishing his first works as a teenager. He adopted the pen name Pablo Neruda to avoid disapproval from his father, who discouraged his literary ambitions. His breakthrough came with Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, 1924), a collection of deeply emotional and sensual poetry that gained international recognition and remains one of his most celebrated works.
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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.
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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 -
María Luisa Bombal
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Eduardo Gutiérrez
Eduardo Gutiérrez fue un escritor argentino que se destacó por sus obras de contenido histórico costumbrista y gauchesco.
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Su novela más imortante fue Juan Moreira que fue escrita en el año 1880. Esta obra adquirió gran popularidad y fue llevada al circo criollo, el teatro, el cine y la historieta.
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Rubén Darío
Nicaraguan poet Félix Rubén García Sarmiento initiated and epitomizes Spanish literary modernism. Dario is in all possibility the poet who has had the greatest and most lasting influence in twentieth century Spanish literature. He has been praised as the prince of Castilian letters.
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Eduardo Barrios
Eduardo Barrios Achurra was a Chilean writer and poet born in Valparaíso in 1884.
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After his father’s death, at the age of 5 his family moved to Lima until the age of 15 where he was the victim of harassment by his classmates. After high school he joined the Chilean Military School but quit before graduating as an officer. He spent much of his young adulthood travelling throughout Latin America doing a colorful array of odd jobs to earn a living. By 1915 he was back in Chile working for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including La Mañana, Zig Zag, revista Pacifico and revista Atenea. From 1925 to 1959 he held various positions in government, museums and the local Press. He was elected to the Chilean, Argentinian and the Brazilian Acade -
Óscar Castro
Escritor y poeta chileno. Su obra literaria abarcó tanto el género lírico —con un lenguaje transparente, humano y melancólico, con una métrica perfecta— como el género narrativo, mucho más realista y cercana al criollismo.
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José María Maza Sancho
José María Maza Sancho (Valparaíso, 1948) es licenciado en Astronomía por la Universidad de Chile y doctor en Astronomía en la Universidad de Toronto.
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Ha publicado más de ciento veinte artículos de investigación en revistas de astronomía y, actualmente, es profesor titular de Astronomía en la Universidad de Chile. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas en 1999 y es miembro de Número de la Academia Chilena de Ciencias. Es autor de Supernovas (2008) junto a Mario Hamuy, Astronomía contemporánea (2009), Marte: la próxima frontera (2018) y Eclipses (2019). -
Miguel Hernández
Miguel Hernández, born in Orihuela (Alicante Province), was a leading 20th century Spanish poet and playwright.
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Hernández was born to a poor family and received little formal education; he published his first book of poetry at 23, and gained considerable fame before his death. He spent his childhood as a goatherd and farmhand, and was, for the most part, self-taught, although he did receive basic education from state schools and the Jesuits. He was introduced to literature by friend Ramon Sijé. As a youth, Hernández greatly admired the Spanish Baroque lyric poet Luis de Góngora, who was an influence in his early works. Like many Spanish poets of his era, he was deeply influenced by European vanguard movements, notably by Surrealism. Though H -
Elvira Sastre
Elvira Sastre nace en Segovia el verano de 1992 y ya desde muy pequeña, gracias a la influencia de su padre, muestra su amor por la lectura. A los doce años escribe su primer poema y tres años más tarde abre un blog, "Relocos y Recuerdos", que a día de hoy mantiene activo. Poco tiempo después, gana el premio de poesía "Emiliano Barral" con el relato corto Saudade.
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Unos años más tarde, se instala en Madrid para cursar el grado universitario de Estudios Ingleses, sin saber que ese cambio lanzaría su carrera poética al cielo de la capital. En Madrid, Elvira continúa escribiendo y comienza a participar en eventos poéticos acompañada de cantautores consagrados como Adriana Moragues, Diego Ojeda y Dani Hare e importantes poetas como Carlos Salem -
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.
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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 -
Elyse Durham
Elyse Durham is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her fiction has appeared or is upcoming in the Cimarron Review, Image Journal, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George grantee and has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Glen Arbor Arts Center, and The Mount, the home of Edith Wharton. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with her husband, who is a Greek Orthodox priest.
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Thomas Fahy
I grew up in Los Angeles, California, and I have studied literature and music throughout my life. I earned a Ph.D. in literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I'm now a professor of American literature and American Studies at Long Island University (C. W. Post).
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My most recent novel, The Unspoken (Simon and Schuster), is my first teen thriller/horror novel. The book is about a group of teens who were raised by a cult that foresaw their deaths. Five years later, they reunite to confront a grisly murder and to save themselves.
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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.
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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 -
Fernando Soto Aparicio
Fernando Soto Aparicio (October 1, 1933 – May 2, 2016) was a Colombian poet, storyteller, playwright, novelist, librettist, and screenwriter. He was born in Socha, in the Department of Boyacá. Fernando Soto Aparicio spent his childhood in Santa Rosa de Viterbo. He is remembered for the novel The rebellion of the rats. After several decades as a professor at various universities in the country, in 1961 he was exalted with the prize Selecciones Lengua Española, in 1970 he received the Casa de las Américas Prize, and a year later, the prize City of Murcia. In total, he wrote about 70 literary works, among them novels, poems, books of short stories, as well as theatre plays.
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Renata Belmonte
Renata Belmonte é advogada e escritora. Doutora em Direito pela Universidade de São Paulo e Mestre em Direito e Desenvolvimento pela Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas. Em 2010, foi aluna dos cursos Gender Violence da Harvard Law School e World Poverty and Human Rights da Harvard Extension School. Possui pós-graduação em Direito de Estado pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) e é autora dos livros: Femininamente (Prêmio Braskem Cultura e Arte 2003), O que não pode ser (Prêmio Cultura e Arte Banco Capital 2006) e Vestígios da Senhorita B. (Coleção Cartas Bahianas, EPP, 2009). Participou das antologias de contos Outras moradas (EPP, 2007) e Como se não houvesse amanhã- 20 contos inspirados em músicas da Legião Urban
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Eduardo Caballero Calderón
Eduardo Caballero Calderón (6 March 1910 – 3 April 1993) was a Colombian journalist and writer. As a journalist, he worked for the main Colombian newspapers, including El Tiempo and El Espectador. Also he was a diplomat from Colombia in Peru, Argentina, Spain and France. Caballero was elected as congressman two times for the department of Boyacá and was mayor of Tipacoque.
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Cabellero Calderón began writing in the 1940s and rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. His most known books are El Cristo de espaldas (Backwards Christ) (1952), Siervo sin tierra (Landless Servant) (1954), La penúltima hora (The Hour Before the Last) (1955), and Manuel Pacho (1962), which are mainly depictions of events related to the bipartisan violence in Colombia -
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".
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Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l -
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature ("for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.")
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Alejandra Pizarnik
Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-administered overdose of barbiturates on 25 September 1972. A few words scribbled on a slate that same month, reiterating her desire to go nowhere "but to the bottom," sum up her lifelong aspiration as a human being and as a writer. The compulsion to head for the "bottom" or "abyss" points to her desire to surrender to nothingness in an ultimate experience of ecstasy and poetic fulfillment in which life and art would be fused, albeit at her own risk. "Ojalá pudiera vivir solamente en éxtasis, haciendo el cuerpo del poema con mi cuerpo" (If I cou
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Xavier Velasco
Enamorado impenitente de la música, las motocicletas, la adrenalina y las palabras en esteroides, Velasco comenzó a escribir a los nueve años, como una forma de escapar a las aulas. Ejerce desde entonces la literatura como un vicio secreto, al que años después da curso a través de experimentar con la crónica y la forma de vida del rock. Tránsfuga de las carreras de Ciencias Políticas y Literatura, ejerce luego oficios variopintos, como el de director creativo (de lo cual dice haber extraído "algún dinero y ningún orgullo") y editor de una revista de aristócratas. Acostumbrado a dobles y triples vidas, Velasco desempeña al mismo tiempo los papeles de copywriter, periodista, rockero, socialité, noctámbulo barriobajero y escritor subrepticio.
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Augusto Monterroso
Augusto Monterroso Bonilla (1921-2003) es la máxima figura hispánica del género más breve de la literatura, el microrrelato, y una de las personalidades más entrañables, no sólo por su modestia y sencillez, sino también por su excepcional inteligencia y su exquisita ironía. Autodidacta por excelencia, abandonó sus estudios tempranamente, para dedicarse por completo a la lectura de los clásicos, que amó con pasión, como a Cervantes, cuyo influjo es evidente en su obra. Guatemalteco de adopción y centroamericano por vocación, dedicó una buena parte de su vida a luchar contra la dictadura de su país, antes de darse a conocer internacionalmente con el cuento «El dinosaurio», que, se dice, es el más breve de la literatura en español. Maestro de
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Tove Ditlevsen
Tove Ditlevsen var en dansk forfatter, som hentede inspiration i sit eget liv som kvinde. I sin digtning og som yndet brevkasseredaktør i Familie Journalen udfoldede hun en dyb psykologisk indsigt i moderne kvinders splittede liv. Hendes evne til at udtrykke sammensatte følelser i et enkelt og smukt sprog fik betydning for flere generationer af læsere.
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Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC Radio,and Lettre International, among other places. She was the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and a Runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Both her fiction and nonfiction examine the individual lives at stake during migration, war, and exile, and consider the intersections of photography and violence. She was a writer on the social-activist documentary film, Girl Ris
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Carla Guelfenbein
Carla Guelfenbein Dobry es una escritora chilena de origen ruso-judío.
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Paulo Scott
Nasceu em Porto Alegre, em 1966, e mora no Rio de Janeiro desde 2008. É autor dos romances Voláteis (Objetiva) e Habitante irreal (Alfaguara), livro ganhador do Prêmio Fundação Biblioteca Nacional 2012, concluído com o apoio da Bolsa Petrobras de Criação Literária 2010; do volume de contos Ainda orangotangos (Bertrand Brasil), adaptado para o cinema por Gustavo Spolidoro no longa-metragem de mesmo título que venceu o 13o Festival de Cinema de Milão, e do livro de poemas A timidez do monstro (Objetiva).
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Paul de Kruif
Paul Henry de Kruif was an American microbiologist and author of Dutch descent. Publishing as Paul de Kruif, he is most noted for his 1926 book, Microbe Hunters. This book was not only a bestseller for a lengthy period after publication, it has remained high on lists of recommended reading for science and has been an inspiration for many aspiring physicians and scientists.
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He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's degree (1912) and remained to obtain a Ph.D. (1916). He immediately entered service as a Private in Mexico on the Pancho Villa Expedition and afterwards served as a Lieutenant and a Captain in World War I in France. Because of his service in the Sanitary Corps, he had occasional contacts with leading French bio -
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.
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He has received the Premio Consejo Nacional de Libro (Chilean National Book Award) twice, in 1994 and 1996.
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Brigitte Giraud
Brigitte Giraud, née en 1960 à Sidi Bel Abbès en Algérie française, est une écrivaine française, auteure de romans et de nouvelles. Brigitte Giraud grandit à Rillieux-la-Pape avant de s’installer à Lyon3. Libraire, journaliste, elle écrit et commence à publier à la fin des années 1990. Le 3 novembre 2022, elle obtient le prix Goncourt 2022, avec son récit Vivre vite, qui revient sur l'accident de moto qui a emporté son mari, en 1999, à l’âge de 41 ans. Elle est la treizième femme à recevoir ce prix en cent vingt ans (depuis 1903).
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Imanol Caneyada
Es un narrador y periodista de origen vasco pero sonorense por decisión. Nacido en San Sebastián en 1968, radica desde hace 28 años en México, país del que ha adoptado la nacionalidad y en el que ha desarrollado su trabajo periodístico y literario.
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Ha publicado los libros de cuentos La nariz roja de Stalin (ganador del Premio Nacional de Cuento Efrén Hernández 2011), La ciudad antes del alba (ganador del Premio Regional de Cuento Ciudad La Paz 2009), Los confines de la arena e Historias de la gaya ciencia ficción; y las novelas Un camello en el ojo de la aguja, Tardarás un rato en morir, Espectáculo para avestruces, Las paredes desnudas y Hotel de arraigo, acreedora al Premio Nacional de Literatura José Fuentes Mares en 2015. -
Alfredo Molano Bravo
Alfredo Molano Bravo (n. Bogotá; 1944) es un periodista y escritor colombiano.
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Ha dedicado su vida a los estudios culturales, preocupándose esencialmente por el desentrañamiento de los orígenes y desarrollos de ciertos fenómenos sociales colombianos, en especial de aquellos que tienen su origen en ciertas minorías sociales. La obra de Molano describe sucesos que tienen su escenario en la segunda mitad del siglo XX en el territorio colombiano, haciendo hincapié en cuestiones como la educación y la violencia, así como en la patente diversidad manifiesta en la construcción simbólica que signa la historia del país.
Molano cursó estudios de sociología en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, donde obtuvo una licenciatura en 1971, y fue alumno de l -
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on morality, religion, fiction, and art. He has published more than a hundred scientific articles in journals such as Science and Nature, and his popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Natural History, and many other publications. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. His newest book--Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil--is coming out in November. Paul Bloom lives in New Haven with his wife and two sons.
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Ana Maria Gonçalves
Ana Maria Gonçalves nasceu em 1970, na cidade Ibiá-MG. Publicitária por formação, residiu em São Paulo por treze anos até se cansar do ritmo intenso da cidade e da profissão. Em viagem à Bahia, encantou-se com a Ilha de Itaparica, onde fixou residência por cinco anos e descobriu sua veia de ficcionista, passando a se dedicar integralmente à literatura. Atualmente, reside em New Orleans, no estado americano da Louisiana.
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Em 2002, estreou como escritora com a publicação de Ao lado e à margem do que sentes por mim – “livro terno, íntimo, vivido e escrito em Itaparica”, segundo o depoimento de Millor Fernandes. O livro teve circulação restrita, apesar da primorosa edição artesanal. Mas é em 2006 que a autora se torna conhecida no meio literário -
Aurora Venturini
Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education (Instituto de Psicología y Reeducación del Menor) where she met Eva Perón who was an intimate friend and with whom she worked. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges personally handed her the Initiation Award (Premio Iniciación) for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris, city in which she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution. In Paris she lived in company of Violette Leduc and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco
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Idea Vilariño
Idea Vilariño (Montevideo, 1920-2009) fue una poeta, ensayista y crítica literaria uruguaya perteneciente al grupo de escritores denominado Generación del 45. Dentro de sus facetas menos conocidas se encuentran la de traductora, compositora y docente.
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Vilariño was one of the outstanding figures of Uruguayan poetry, with her lyric creations collected in works such as “La Suplicante” (The Supplicant), “Poemas de Amor” (Love Poems) and “Nocturnos” (Nocturnes).
Also known as an essayist and literary critic, she was a member of the writers’ group called the Generation of 45, to which Mario Benedetti, 88, also belonged and who is currently in a Montevideo hospital in critical condition.
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Conceição Evaristo
Conceição Evaristo was born in a slum in the south of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais / Brazil. She had to reconcile her studies with work as a domestic worker, until she completed her first years of study in 1971, at the age of 25. She then moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she passed a public competition for teaching and graduated in Letters at UFRJ.
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In the 1980s, she contacted Grupo Quilombhoje. She debuted in literature in 1990, with works published in the series Cadernos Negros, published by the organization.
She holds a Master's degree in Brazilian Literature from PUC-Rio, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).
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Luis de Góngora y Argote
Luis de Góngora y Argote (11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered to be the most prominent Spanish poets of their age. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorism (Gongorismo). This style existed in stark contrast to Quevedo's Conceptismo.
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Alejandro Dolina
Alejandro Ricardo Dolina (born May 20, 1945) is an Argentine broadcaster, who also achieved renown as a musician and a writer.
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Dolina was born in Baigorrita, Buenos Aires Province, and spent his childhood years in Caseros, a middle-class suburb of Buenos Aires city, with Yugoslav (in his own words -he never referred to a particular ethnic group in the defunct country) and Italian ancestry (he has also reminded his audiences that Dolina is a word preserved in many Slavic languages, meaning valley). He pursued music and writing since childhood. Although he steadfastly refuses to discuss his private life, he often recalls anecdotes about time spent in his youth in the company of musicians and professional gamblers (he confesses of having worked -
Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC Radio,and Lettre International, among other places. She was the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and a Runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Both her fiction and nonfiction examine the individual lives at stake during migration, war, and exile, and consider the intersections of photography and violence. She was a writer on the social-activist documentary film, Girl Ris
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Hazel Rowley
Hazel Rowley was a British-born Australian author and biographer.
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Born in London, Rowley emigrated with her parents to Adelaide at the age of eight. She studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with Honours in French and German. Later she acquired a PhD in French. She taught literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, before moving to the United States.
Rowley's first published biography, of Australian novelist Christina Stead, was critically acclaimed and won the National Book Council's "Banjo" Award for non-fiction in 1994. Her next biographical work was about the African American writer Richard Wright. Her best-known book, Tête-à-tête (2005), covers the lives of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (de Beauvoir had been -
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Ricardo Raphael
Licenciado en Derecho por la UNAM. Maestro en ciencias políticas por el Instituto de Estudios Políticos de París, Francia (Sciences Po). Maestría en Administración Pública por la Escuela Nacional de Administración (ENA) de la República Francesa. Estudios Doctorales en Economía Política y Políticas Comparadas por la Escuela para Graduados de Claremont, California, EU.
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Fue Secretario General de Democracia Social, Partido Político Nacional y representante ante el Consejo General del IFE del partido México Posible. También fue Coordinador de la Comisión Ciudadana contra la Discriminación, fue defensor de la audiencia de canal 11 y subdirector de opinión del periódico El Universal.
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Hassan II
King Hassan II - (9 July 1929 – 23 July 1999) was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999.
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عبد الحفيظ بن الحسن
المولى سليمان بن محمد
السلطان مولاي إسماعيل
محمد الثالث
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Ángeles Mastretta
Ángeles Mastretta es una escritora y periodista mexicana. Es conocida por crear personajes femeninos sugerentes y ficciones que reflejan las realidades sociales y políticas de México. Actualmente está casada con el también escritor y analista político Héctor Aguilar Camín. Sus principales novelas son: Arráncame la vida y Mal de amores.
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Una vez en el Distrito Federal, Mastretta decide estudiar la carrera de periodismo en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, obteniendo ahí el título de Comunicaciones. Se puede situar la entrada de Mastretta a las letras cuando ésta comienza a escribir como colaboradora ocasional en periódicos y revistas de la talla de Excélsior, La Jornada, Proceso (revis -
Lucrecia Maldonado
Escritora quiteña nacida en 1962. Ha trabajado en el campo de la educación y en producción radiofónica. Como escritora de ficción tiene seis libros de cuentos juveniles publicados, entre ellos la colección “Bip Bip”(Premio Libresa, 2008), con la novela: “Salvo el calvario”(Premio Aurelio Espinoza Pólit, 2005), otorgado por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Con la novela:“Alas para la soledad” obtuvo el premio (Darío Guevara Mayorga), otorgado por el Municipio de Quito. En su libro de relatos:“El ruido de la lluvia en la ventana” quedó finalista en el concurso (Ana María Matute, 2015), en la ciudad de Madrid.
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Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima
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Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. What has followed since includes five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programs.
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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. -
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.
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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 -
Stephen LaBerge
Stephen LaBerge (1947–) is a psychophysiologist and a leader in the scientific study of lucid dreaming. He began researching lucid dreaming for his Ph.D. in Psychophysiology at Stanford University, which he received in 1980. In 1987, he founded The Lucidity Institute, an organization that promotes research into lucid dreaming, as well as running courses for the general public on how to achieve a lucid dream.
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Tove Ditlevsen
Tove Ditlevsen var en dansk forfatter, som hentede inspiration i sit eget liv som kvinde. I sin digtning og som yndet brevkasseredaktør i Familie Journalen udfoldede hun en dyb psykologisk indsigt i moderne kvinders splittede liv. Hendes evne til at udtrykke sammensatte følelser i et enkelt og smukt sprog fik betydning for flere generationer af læsere.
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Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. What has followed since includes five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programs.
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Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on morality, religion, fiction, and art. He has published more than a hundred scientific articles in journals such as Science and Nature, and his popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Natural History, and many other publications. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. His newest book--Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil--is coming out in November. Paul Bloom lives in New Haven with his wife and two sons.
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Luis de Lión
Born into a Kaqchikel Maya family, his father's work as a policeman during the rule of dictator Jorge Ubico enabled him to receive basic education. He completed his studies in Guatemala City, graduating with a teaching certification in primary education.
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He worked as a teacher in various places in Guatemala until he was made a professor of literature at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. As a leader of the communist Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo ("Guatemalan Workers' Party"), he promoted universal access to quality education as a means to improve the quality of life of the Guatemalan people. In San Juan del Obispo, the village near Antigua Guatemala where he was born, he founded a small library in which he taught literacy to his form -
Elena Poniatowska
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor was born on May 19, 1933, in Paris, France. Her father was French of Polish ancestry and her mother a Mexican who was raised in France. When she was nine Poniatowska's family moved to México City. She grew up speaking French and learned English in a private British school. However, her knowledge of Spanish came from talking with the maids, so her written Spanish was largely colloquial. Poniatowska developed ties with the Mexican lower class in her youth and thus gained a sense of belonging to and an understanding of the Mexican culture. She felt and thought of herself as completely Mexican and of Spanish as her native language. Her works include characters who belong to the under
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Político y politólogo mexicano, presidente nacional del partido político Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA), del que también es fundador y expresidente de su Consejo Nacional. Durante su carrera política, se ha desempeñado como presidente estatal del PRI en Tabasco, presidente nacional del PRD, Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal y candidato a la Presidencia de México por la Coalición Por el Bien de Todos en las elecciones federales de México de 2006 y por la coalición Movimiento Progresista en las elecciones de 2012.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night."
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He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. He had two brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer (1799–1877) and Henry, afterwards Lord Dalling and Bulwer.
Lord Lytton's original surname was Bulwer, the names 'Earle' and 'Lytton' were middle names. On -
William Ospina
En 1982 ganó el Premio Nacional de Ensayo de la Universidad de Nariño, Pasto, con el ensayo Aurelio Arturo, la palabra del hombre. En 1986 publicó su primer poemario: Hilo de Arena. El 13 de julio de 1993 fundó -junto a 10 profesionales de distintas áreas- la prestigiosa Revista Número, publicación colombiana de circulación trimestral cuyo propósito es la promoción de la cultura. Fue redactor en la edición dominical de diario La Prensa de Bogotá de 1988 a 1989. Escribió ensayos sobre Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, León Tolstói, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Las mil y una noches, Alfonso Reyes, Estanislao Zuleta, literatura árabe y las brujas de Macbeth. En 1992 obtuvo el primer Premio Nacional de Poesía del Instituto Colombiano de Cultura
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Alejandra Pizarnik
Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-administered overdose of barbiturates on 25 September 1972. A few words scribbled on a slate that same month, reiterating her desire to go nowhere "but to the bottom," sum up her lifelong aspiration as a human being and as a writer. The compulsion to head for the "bottom" or "abyss" points to her desire to surrender to nothingness in an ultimate experience of ecstasy and poetic fulfillment in which life and art would be fused, albeit at her own risk. "Ojalá pudiera vivir solamente en éxtasis, haciendo el cuerpo del poema con mi cuerpo" (If I cou
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Isaac Rosa
Isaac Rosa Camacho (Sevilla, 1974) es un escritor español.
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Vivió en Extremadura y actualmente reside en Madrid. Es columnista habitual de Eldiario.es, colabora con la Cadena Ser y la revista mensual La Marea, entre otras publicaciones. Fue columnista del diario Público y de la revista satírica El Jueves.
Se dio a conocer con una novela de humor y de título iconoclasta y revelador: ¡Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil! (2007), que reelaboraba un relato de 1999. Su novela El vano ayer ganó en 2005 el Premio Rómulo Gallegos en competencia con otros autores españoles como Almudena Grandes, Andrés Trapiello, o Juan Bonilla. El reconocimiento de la crítica fue generalizado. La novela elige un género poco frecuentado y relacionado con la pos -
John Katzenbach
John Katzenbach is a U.S. author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, John worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News, and a featured writer for the Herald’s Tropic magazine. He is married to Madeleine Blais and they live in western Massachusetts.
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He left the newspaper grind to write books, racking up 12 novels so far, psychological thrillers that have made him an international success. His first, 1982's bestselling *In the Heat of the Summer, became the movie *The Mean Season , filmed partially in The Herald's newsroom ans starring Kurt Russell and MAriel Hemingway.
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Vicente Huidobro
Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism"), which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.
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Huidobro was born into a wealthy family in Santiago. After spending his first years in Europe, he enrolled in a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago where he was expelled for using a ring, which he claimed, was for marriage. He studied literature at the University of Chile and published "Ecos del alma" ( Soul's Echoes ) in 1911, a work with modernist tendencies. The following year he married, and started to edit the journal "Musa Joven" ( Young Muse ), where part of his -
Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman is one of the most read and influential poets in the Spanish language. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956 and has been translated into fourteen languages. A political activist and critical journalist since his youth, Gelman has not only been a literary paradigm but also a moral one, within and outside of Argentina. Among his most recent awards are the National Poetry Prize (Argentina, 1997), the Juan Rulfo Prize in Latin American and Caribbean Literature (Mexico, 2000), the Pablo Neruda Prize (Chile, 2005), the Queen Sofia Prize in Ibero-American Poetry (Spain, 2005), and the Cervantes Prize (the most important award given to a Hispanic writer, Spain, 2007).
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Rachel M. Harper
RACHEL M. HARPER is the author of three novels: THE OTHER MOTHER, upcoming from Counterpoint Press; THIS SIDE OF PROVIDENCE, shortlisted for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and BRASS ANKLE BLUES, a Borders’ Original Voices Award finalist and Target Breakout Book. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely published and anthologized. Harper has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, and is on the faculty at Spalding University’s School of Writing. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Alberto Fuguet
Antiguo abanderado de la generación McOndo, cineasta, guionista, periodista y autor de novelas como Mala Onda, Tinta Roja y Missing.
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Clara Obligado
Clara Obligado nació en Buenos Aires. Exiliada política de la dictadura militar, desde 1976 vive en España. Es licenciada en Literatura, y ha dirigido los primeros talleres de Escritura Creativa que se organizaron en este país, actividad que ha llevado a cabo para numerosas universidades y diversas instituciones y que realiza de forma independiente.
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En 1996 recibió el premio Femenino Lumen por su novela La hija de Marx y en 2015 el premio de novela breve Juan March Cencillo por Petrarca para viajeros. Ha publicado con Páginas de Espuma las antologías Por favor, sea breve 1 y 2, señeras en la implantación del género en España, y los volúmenes de cuentos Las otras vidas, El libro de los viajes equivocados (que mereció el IX Premio Setenil al m -
Edmondo de Amicis
Edmondo de Amicis was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.
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Daniel Smith
Librarian Note: There are more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Djaïli Amadou Amal
Djaïli Amadou Amal, née en 1975 à Maroua dans le département de Diamaré situé dans la région de l'Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, est une militante féministe et écrivaine camerounaise.
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Djaïli Amadou Amal entreprend des études supérieures en gestion commerciale. Mariée à dix-sept ans dans le cadre d'un mariage arrangé, Djaïli a connu tout ce qui rend si difficile la vie des femmes du Sahel. « Dans tout ce que je fais, j'essaie surtout de parler des discriminations faites aux femmes ; c'est mon cheval de bataille ! La presse camerounaise m'a même surnommée la "voix des sans voix" ! ». Djaïli Amadou Amal dénonce les pesanteurs sociales liées aux traditions et aux religions1. A travers l'écriture elle dénonce en somme les problèmes sociaux de sa régio -
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, birth name Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo, is a popular Mexican writer and novelist. He is the son of the late journalist Paco Ignacio Taibo I.
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Rius
Rius was the pseudonym of Eduardo del Río García, the internationally acclaimed Mexican caricaturist and editorial cartoonist whose innovative work established a new field in comic strips: the political and documentary cartoon-book.
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Gérard de Cortanze
Gérard de Cortanze is a French writer, essayist, translator and literary critic. He won the Prix Renaudot in 2002 for his historical novel Assam. He was awarded chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2009.
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He is President of the Jury Prize for the Jean Monnet prize, European department of Charente, awarded annually since 1995, to reward a European writer for a book written or translated into French. -
Nelly Fernández Tiscornia
Nelly Fernández Tiscornia fue una escritora, dramaturga y guionista de televisión argentina.
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Ejerció la docencia durante 30 años, en el Instituto Juan José Castelli (Ramos Mejía), tiempo en el que fundó un teatro vocacional en dicha institución.
Durante mucho tiempo produjo textos que no fueron aceptados en los medios televisivos a los que le ofreció ni tuvieron trascendencia. Fue en 1965 cuando un guión de un teleteatro fue aceptado en Canal 7, siendo protagonizado por Telma del Río. En 1982 fue guionista de un ciclo de especiales, ideados por la actriz Dora Baret. Se consagró con el unitario "Situación límite", siendo la única guionista del mismo. Realizó 120 libros durante tres años para este programa, que se emitía por ATC. Escribió la ob -
B. Traven
B. Traven was the pen name of a German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. A rare certainty is that B. Traven lived much of his life in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including his best-known work, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), which was adapted as the Academy Award nominated film of the same name in 1948.
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Virtually every detail of Traven's life has been disputed and hotly debated. There were many hypotheses on the true identity of B. Traven, some of them wildly fantastic. Most agree, that Traven was Ret Marut, a German stage actor and anarchist, who supposedly left Europe for Mexico around 1924. There are also reasons to believ -
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Nació en Tixtla, Guerrero, en el seno de una familia indígena; su padre tenía una posición de mando entre los chontales y en 1848 fue nombrado alcalde de Tixtla, lo cual dio al niño Ignacio Manuel, que a la sazón tenía 14 años, la oportunidad de ir a la escuela. Aprendió a leer y a escribir en su pueblo natal. Hizo sus primeros estudios en Toluca, gracias a una beca otorgada por Ignacio Ramírez, de quien fue discípulo. Estudió en el Instituto Literario de Toluca, y derecho en el Colegio de San Juan de Letrán. Perteneció a asociaciones académicas y literarias como el Conservatorio Dramático Mexicano, la Sociedad Nezahualcóyotl, la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística, el Liceo Hidalgo y el Club Álvarez.
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Murió en Italia en 1893, en una -
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Geir Thomas Hylland Eriksen was a Norwegian anthropologist known for his scholarly and popular writing on globalization, identity, ethnicity, and nationalism. He was Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has previously served as the President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (2015–2016), as well as the Editor of Samtiden (1993–2001), Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift (1993–1997), the Journal of Peace Research, and Ethnos.
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Hylland Eriksen was among the most prolific and highly cited anthropologists of his generation, and had been recognized for his remarkable success in bringing an anthropological perspective to a broader, non-academic audience. In Norway, Hyl -
Noah J. Goldstein
Noah Goldstein is a protege of Cialdini's. He is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He earned a Ph.D. in psychology under Robert Cialdini at Arizona State University in 2007, and he has published research with Cialdini in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Óscar de la Borbolla
Óscar Ernesto de la Borbolla y Rondero es un filósofo, ensayista, narrador, poeta y conferencista mexicano.
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Obtuvo el Grado de Maestro en Filosofía en la UNAM y el Doctorado en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, y fue becado por el Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana. Profesor de Filosofía en la FES-Acatlán de la UNAM, titular en el área de Metafísica y Ontología; maestro en la Escuela de Escritores de la SOGEM; coordinador de talleres en universidades, casas de cultura y el CNIPL del INBA; asesor del secretario de Educación Pública; guionista de los programas radiofónicos “Ucronías Radiofónicas” en Radio Educación y “La Carta Radiofónica” en Radio Trece; conferencista en la mayoría de las universidades de la República Mexicana y en i -
Evelio Rosero
Evelio Rosero Diago was born in Bogotá, Colombia, on March 20, 1958. He is a Colombian writer and journalist, who reached international acclaim after winning in 2006 the prestigious Tusquets Prize.
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Evelio Rosero studied primary school in Colombia’s southern city of Pasto, and high school in Bogotá, where he later attended Universidad Externado de Colombia obtaining a degree in Journalism. When he was 21, he won Colombia’s Premio Nacional de Cuento del Quindío 1979 (National Short Story Award of Quindío), for his piece Ausentes (The Departed) that was published by Instituto Colombiano de Cultura in the book 17 Cuentos colombianos (17 Colombian Short Stories). In 1982 he was awarded with the Premio Iberoamericano de Libro de Cuentos Netzahualc