Melina Furman
Melina Furman was an Argentine investigative author, teacher and biologist.
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Claudia Piñeiro
Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province.
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Martín Caparrós
Martín Caparrós es un periodista y escritor argentino. Comenzó su carrera periodística en el diario Noticias en 1973, en la sección policial, a cargo de Rodolfo Walsh. En la dictadura, abandonó el país y se exilió en Europa: se licenció en Historia en la Universidad de París; más tarde vivió en Madrid, hasta 1983. Tras el retorno de la democracia a Argentina, regresó a Buenos Aires. Vive en España y publica sus columnas en El País de Madrid y el New York Times.
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José Antonio Lucero
José Antonio Lucero (Rota, 1988) es profesor de Ciencias Sociales y Lengua y Literatura en Educación Secundaria. Licenciado en Historia y Máster en Escritura por la Universidad de Sevilla, colabora con varios medios digitales como blogger y youtuber desde su canal La cuna de Halicarnaso, donde combina historia, cultura y docencia, sin perder de vista las referencias a la cultura pop y a los fenómenos de masas. En 2018 fue finalista del XXIII Premio de Novela Ateneo Joven de Sevilla.
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Además de historiador y profesor, Lucero es autor de las novelas La vida en un minuto y La madrina de guerra (Ediciones B), y de ¿Por qué los primeros emojis se escribían en arcilla?, un divertido libro de historia para niños a partir de 9 años. Con su última nov -
Salomé Esper
Salomé Esper was born in Jujuy in 1984. She is a writer and editor. She studied Social Communication at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and has a specialty in Editorial Design from Edinba (Mexico). She has published two books of poetry: sobre todo (Intravenosa, 2010) and paisaje (Tres tercios, 2014). She currently edits Sencacional de escrituras and is the editorial coordinator at 17, Institute of Critical Studies.
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Marian Rojas Estapé
Marian Rojas Estapé (Madrid, 2 de noviembre de 1983) es una médica, especialista en psiquiatría y escritora española.1
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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.
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Paulo Freire
The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire is among most the influential educational thinkers of the late 20th century. Born in Recife, Brazil, on September 19, 1921, Freire died of heart failure in Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 2, 1997. After a brief career as a lawyer, he taught Portuguese in secondary schools from 1941-1947. He subsequently became active in adult education and workers' training, and became the first Director of the Department of Cultural Extension of the University of Recife (1961-1964).
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Freire quickly gained international recognition for his experiences in literacy training in Northeastern Brazil. Following the military coup d'etat of 1964, he was jailed by the new government and eventually forced into a political exile that lasted -
Carmen Mola
Agustín Martínez, Jorge Díaz and Antonio Mercero had published novels and worked as scriptwriters under their real names before coming together to write under the pseudonym Carmen Mola, which roughly translates as "Carmen's cool".
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The men, all in their 40s and 50s, denied choosing a female pseudonym to help sell the books. They had previously claimed in interviews and on their own website that Mola was a professor in her late 40s.
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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 -
Rosa Montero
Rosa Montero Gayo is an award-winning journalist for the Spanish newspaper El País, and an author of general fiction and Children's fiction.
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Beatriz Sarlo
Beatriz Sarlo was an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was also founding editor of the cultural journal Punto de Vista ("Point of View"). She became an Order of Cultural Merit laureate in 2009.
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Dahlia de la Cerda
Nació, creció y vive actualmente en la Ciudad de Aguascalientes. Estudió la licenciatura en Filosofía. Ha sido empleada de un call-center, un bar y una fábrica de dulces. Ha trabajado como editora de noticias internacionales y como vendedora de Avón, rosas negras en la calle y de ropa de segunda en un tianguis. En 2009 ganó el certamen literario Letras de la Memoria, convocado por el Centro Cultural Los Arquitos. En 2015 fue becaria del Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico de Aguascalientes (PECDA). Fue beneficiaria del Programa Jóvenes Creadores del Fonca en las emisiones 2016 y 2018. Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala 2019. Ha participado en las antologías Mexicanas. Trece narrativas contemporáneas
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Mónica Ojeda
Mónica Ojeda was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1988. She has published novels, short stories, and poems, earning her nominations and accolades in various literary contests. In 2017, she was listed in Bogotá39 by the Hay Festival as one of the best Latin American fiction writers under forty. In 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in the Netherlands. In 2021, Granta magazine named her one of the best Spanish-language authors under 35.
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Ojeda stands out as one of the leading figures in contemporary Latin American fiction literature. The author is renowned for her skill in crafting intense and unsettling narratives that delve into the darker aspects of human psychology. Her stories often explore themes such as abuse, obsess -
Cristian Acevedo
Según puede corroborarse en las contraportadas de sus diversos libros, Cristian Acevedo nació en:
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Buenos Aires, 1979.
Neuquén, 1980.
Misiones, 1977.
Saladillo, 1980.
Montevideo, 1984.
Rosario, 1986.
Mar del Plata, 1985.
Junín, 1986.
De lo que se desprende que Cristian Acevedo es argentino (aunque puede que uruguayo), que nació entre fines de los 70 y comienzos de los 80 (definitivamente no en 1987). Al parecer, en la actualidad vive en Bella Vista, Buenos Aires, pero puede que en realidad viva en Tortuguitas, en Caballito, en Carlos Paz, en Mercedes.
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Sara Mesa
Sara Mesa is the author of eight works of fiction, including Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), and Cara de Pan (forthcoming from Open Letter). Her works have been translated into more than ten different languages, and has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.
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Eloy Moreno
Eloy Moreno Olaria es un escritor español que se ha dado a conocer tras la publicación de su primera novela, titulada El bolígrafo de gel verde.
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Eloy Moreno lives in Castellón and works in the city’s town hall. He decided to start writing after reading a book that had won an important prize and setting himself the challenge of writing something much better. When his novel was finished, he decided not to send it to a publisher. Confident in the quality of the novel, he decided to win himself a place in bookshops on his own. His success became an Internet phenomenon.
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Hugo Alconada Mon
Hugo Alconada Mon es abogado; magíster por la Universidad de Navarra, España; visiting scholar en la Universidad de Missouri; becario del Draper-Hills Program de la Universidad de Stanford; y becario Eisenhower.
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En enero de 2002 ingresó en el diario La Nación, y entre enero de 2005 y febrero de 2009 fue su corresponsal en los Estados Unidos. Sus notas y reportajes fueron publicados en medios de España, México, Estados Unidos, Brasil, Colombia, Perú, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela y Chile, entre otros países.
En la actualidad se desempeña como prosecretario de Redacción, abocado a investigaciones sobre corrupción, lavado de activos y fraude corporativo.
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Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first novel and is longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.
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Stéphane Hessel
Escaping twice Nazi concentration camps
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Violaine Bérot
Violaine Bérot est une femme de lettres française. Elle est la fille de Marcellin Bérot, montagnard enraciné dans les Pyrénées et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur les Pyrénées, et de Marie-Claude Bérot, puéricultrice et auteur de livres jeunesse.
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En 1994, elle publie son premier roman, Jehanne. Dans Léo et Lola paru en 1996, elle aborde le thème de l'inceste. En 1999, avec Tout pour Titou, elle « écrit un roman d'une rare noirceur », selon Claude Mesplède. Notre père qui êtes odieux, publié en 2000, est un roman de la série du Poulpe qui se déroule dans les Pyrénées de son enfance. -
Leila Guerriero
Leila Guerriero is an Argentinian journalist. She began her career in 1991, as an editor with the magazine Página/30, part of the Argentine newspaper Página/12. Since then her texts have appeared in various publications across Latin America and Europe: La Nación and Rolling Stone, in Argentina; El País, Altaïr and Jot Down, in Spain; Piauí, in Brazil; Leopard, in Mexico; L’Internazionale, in Italy, among others. She is the author of many books, including Los suicidas del fin del mundo (Tusquets, 2004); Frutos extraños (2009, Aguilar, Alfaguara); Una historia sencilla (2013, Anagram); and La Otra Guerra (2021, Anagram). She has received the CEMEX + FNPI New Journalism Award, González-Ruano Prize, Blue Metropolis Grand Prix and Manuel Vázquez
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