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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal ForMemRS (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 18 October 1934) was a Spanish pathologist, histologist, neuroscientist and Nobel laureate. His original pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain have led him to be designated by many as the father of modern neuroscience. His medical artistry was legendary, and hundreds of his drawings illustrating the delicate arborizations of brain cells are still in use for educational and training purposes.

Ramón y Cajal's early work was accomplished at the Universities of Zaragoza and Valencia, where he focused on the pathology of inflammation, the microbiology of cholera, and the structure of Epithelial cells and tissues. It was not until he m

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Leopoldo Alas

Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. He died in Oviedo.

Alas spent his childhood living in León and Guadalajara, until he moved to Oviedo in 1863. There he studied for the Bachillerato (B.A. degree) and began his law studies. He lived in Madrid from 1871 to 1878, where he began his career as a journalist (adopting the pen-name "Clarín" in 1875) and he graduated with the thesis El Derecho y la Moralidad (Law and Morality) in 1878. He taught in Zaragoza from 1882 to 1883. In 1883 he returned to Oviedo to take up a position as professor of Roman law.

Above all, Clarín is the author of La Regenta, his masterpiece and one of the best novels of the 19th cen

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Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright, best known for The Woman in White (1860), an early sensation novel, and The Moonstone (1868), a pioneering work of detective fiction. Born to landscape painter William Collins and Harriet Geddes, he spent part of his childhood in Italy and France, learning both languages. Initially working as a tea merchant, he later studied law, though he never practiced. His literary career began with Antonina (1850), and a meeting with Charles Dickens in 1851 proved pivotal. The two became close friends and collaborators, with Collins contributing to Dickens' journals and co-writing dramatic works.
Collins' success peaked in the 1860s with novels that combined suspense with social critique, includin

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José de Espronceda

José Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnación de Espronceda y Delgado fue un poeta español de la época del Romanticismo, considerado como el más destacado poeta romántico español.
Nació en Almendralejo en la Provincia de Badajoz en 1808. Estudió en el colegio de San Mateo de Madrid, donde tuvo como profesor a Alberto Lista, a quien siguió en el colegio fundado por el mismo. A los quince años creó con sus amigos Ventura de la Vega, y Patricio de la Escosura una sociedad secreta a la que llamaron los Numantinos (1823-1825), según decían, para vengar la muerte de Rafael del Riego. En 1823 funda junto a otros alumnos de Alberto Lista la academia del Mirto, para continuar con las enseñanzas del clausurado colegio que Lista fundara (colegio libre de San M

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Eduardo Gutiérrez

Eduardo Gutiérrez fue un escritor argentino que se destacó por sus obras de contenido histórico costumbrista y gauchesco.

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.

Entre sus otros libros notables figuran Hormiga Negra, Santos Vega y Juan Cuello.

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Leandro Fernández de Moratín

Moratín was born in Madrid the son of Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, a major literary reformer in Spain from 1762 until his death in 1780.

Distrusting the teaching offered in Spain's universities at the time, Leandro grew up in the rich literary environment of his father and became an admirer of Enlightenment thought. In addition to translating works of Molière and William Shakespeare into Spanish, he himself was a major poet, dramatist and man of letters whose writings promoted the reformist ideas associated with the Spanish Enlightenment. Early in his career, he was supported by statesman and author Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who, in 1787, arranged for him to study for a year in Paris. In 1792, the Spanish government provided the funds f

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Juan Mayorga

Es uno de los dramaturgos españoles contemporáneos más representados de la generación denominada, no sin cierta polémica, Generación Bradomín. Su dramaturgia, profunda, comprometida y metódica,ha traspasado las barreras nacionales para ser traducido y representado en los principales teatros europeos. Es colaborador asiduo de compañías como Animalario y ha trabajado como adaptador y dramaturgo para el Centro Dramático Nacional y la Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico. Está casado y tiene tres hijos.

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Elena Medel

Elena Medel Navarro (Córdoba, 1985) es una escritora española, dedicada especialmente al campo de la poesía. Sus poemas han sido traducidos al alemán, árabe, esloveno, inglés, italiano, polaco y portugués.

Es una de las poetisas andaluzas jóvenes más conocidas en la actualidad, ya que a los 16 años ganó el premio Andalucía Joven concedido por el Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud con su primer poemario Mi primer bikini (DVD, 2002). Posteriormente publicó los libros de poemas, Vacaciones (2004) y Tara (2006) y el cuaderno Un soplo en el corazón (2007). En 2013 ha ganado el premio Loewe en su categoría Creación Joven por su libro Chatterton.
Es articulista en la edición madrileña de El País, y ejerce la crítica literaria en medios impresos y digi

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Vicente Risco

Vicente Martínez Risco e Agüero, nado en Ourense o 1 de outubro de 1884 e finado na mesma cidade o 30 de abril de 1963, foi un intelectual galego do século XX, membro da xeración Nós e considerado un dos meirandes teóricos do nacionalismo galego.

Constitúe unha das figuras máis importantes e complexas da historia da literatura galega. Home procedente dunha familia acomodada, dun gran nivel cultural, contribuíu na literatura galega asentando as bases do nacionalismo galego e renovando a narrativa galega do primeiro terzo do século XX.

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Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era.
Her first novel, Pascual López (1879), is a simple exercise in fantasy of no remarkable promise, though it contains good descriptive passages of romance. It was followed by a more striking story, Un viaje de novios (1881), in which a discreet attempt was made to introduce into Spain the methods of French realism. The book caused a sensation among the literary cliques, and this sensation was increased by the appearance of another naturalistic tale, La tribuna (1885), wherein the influence of Émile Zola is unmistakable. Meanwh

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Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in the medieval centre of Bilbao, Basque Country, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo. As a young man, he was interested in the Basque language, and competed for a teaching position in the Instituto de Bilbao, against Sabino Arana. The contest was finally won by the Basque scholar Resurrección María de Azcue.

Unamuno worked in all major genres: the essay, the novel, poetry and theatre, and, as a modernist, contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries between genres. There is some debate as to whether Unamuno was in fact a member of the Generation of '98 (an ex post facto literary group of Spanish intellectuals and philosophers that was the creation of José Martínez Ruiz — a group that includes An

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Federico García Lorca

Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.

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José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. He was, along with Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, a proponent of the idea of perspectivism.

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Benito Pérez Galdós

People know Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós especially for his Episodios Nacionales (1873-1912), a series of 46 historical novels.

Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th century Spain.

Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and galdosistas (Galdós researchers) considered him Spain's equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. As recently as 1950, few of his works were available translated to English, although he has slow

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Carmen de Burgos

María del Carmen Ramona Loreta de Burgos y Seguí (pseudonyms, Colombine, Gabriel Luna, Perico el de los Palotes, Raquel, Honorine and Marianela) was a Spanish journalist, writer, translator and women's rights activist. Johnson describes her as a "modern" if not "modernist" writer. She was a partner of Ramón Gómez de la Serna

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Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

Ramón del Valle-Inclán was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in a rural village in Galicia, Spain. Obedient to his father’s wishes, he studied law in Compostela, but after his father’s death in 1889 he moved to Madrid to work as a journalist and critic. In 1892 Valle-Inclán traveled to Mexico, where he remained for more than a year. His first book of stories came out in Spain in 1895. A well-known figure in the cafés of Madrid, famous for his spindly frame, cutting wit, long hair, longer beard, black cape, and single arm (the other having been lost after a fight with a critic), Valle-Inclán was celebrated as the author of Sonatas: The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín, which was published in 1904 and is considered the finest no

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Ángel de Saavedra, duque de Rivas

Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Spanish poet and dramatist

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.

It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.

In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. He was then rele

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E. Michael Jones

Catholic writer, former professor at Saint Mary's College in Indiana and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine.

E. Micheal Jones is controversial for his criticism against judaism.

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Juan Ramón Jiménez

Platero y Yo (1914) ranks as most famous work of Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, who introduced modernism to Spanish verse and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956.

He won this prize "for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity."

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Miguel Mihura

Nació el 21 de julio de 1905 en Madrid (España). Su padre fue el actor, autor y empresario teatral Miguel Mihura Álvarez.

Comenzó escribiendo en revistas humorísticas como La ametralladora. En 1941 funda La codorniz, revista de humor también, cuya dirección abandona en 1944. Colaboró en el guion de la película Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall, de Luis García Berlanga, una de las cintas clave de la cinematografía española.

Como su primera obra teatral aparece Tres sombreros de copa (1932), obra que no vio la luz hasta veinte años después y constituyó uno de los acontecimientos capitales del teatro español del siglo XX. Después se llevaron a la escena, entre otras: Sublime decisión (1955), Mi adorado Juan (1956), Melocotón en almíbar(1958), Maribel y

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Miguel Delibes

Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
He was a connoisseur of the flora and fauna of Castile and was passionate about hunting and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world.
He was one of the leading figures of post-Civil War

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Antonio Buero Vallejo

Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During his career he won three National Theatre Prizes (in 1957, 1958 & 1959), a National Theatre Prize for all his career in 1980, the National Literature Prize in 1996, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spain's highest literary honour, in 1986. From 1971 until his death he was a member of the Real Academia Española.

From 1934 to 1936 Vallejo studied art and painting at San Fernando Escuela de Arte, in Madrid. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army. After the war he was imprisoned for six years. After being released he wrote Story of a Stairway in 1949. This work presented a graphic pictu

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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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Isaac Asimov

Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.

Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.

Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).

People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire

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Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in the medieval centre of Bilbao, Basque Country, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo. As a young man, he was interested in the Basque language, and competed for a teaching position in the Instituto de Bilbao, against Sabino Arana. The contest was finally won by the Basque scholar Resurrección María de Azcue.

Unamuno worked in all major genres: the essay, the novel, poetry and theatre, and, as a modernist, contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries between genres. There is some debate as to whether Unamuno was in fact a member of the Generation of '98 (an ex post facto literary group of Spanish intellectuals and philosophers that was the creation of José Martínez Ruiz — a group that includes An

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Benito Pérez Galdós

People know Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós especially for his Episodios Nacionales (1873-1912), a series of 46 historical novels.

Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th century Spain.

Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and galdosistas (Galdós researchers) considered him Spain's equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. As recently as 1950, few of his works were available translated to English, although he has slow

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish post-romanticist writer of poetry, short stories, and nonfiction now considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the post-romanticism movement and wrote while realism was enjoying success in Spain. He was moderately well known during his life, but it was after his death that most of his works were published.

He is best known for his intimate, lyrical poems and for his legends; more importantly, he is remembered for the verbal decor with which he impregnated everything he wrote. A Romantic poet above all else, Bécqu

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Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 ("for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.") and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.

In 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him, for his literary merits, the title Marquis of Iria Flavia.

His son, Camilo José Cela Conde is also a writer.

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Juan Valera

Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish realist author, writer and political figure.
He was born at Cabra, in the province of Córdoba, and was educated at Málaga and at the University of Granada, where he took his degree in law, and then entered upon a diplomatic career (1847). Over the next five decades, Valera filled a number of positions in a variety of various places. He accompanied the Spanish Ambassador to Naples. Afterwards, he was a member of the Spanish legations at Lisbon (1850), Rio de Janeiro (1851–53), Dresden and St. Petersburg (1854–57). After his return to Madrid, he became one of the editors of the liberal journal El Contemporáneo (1859), and was appointed Minister to Frankfurt (1865). After the revolution of 1868 he was

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Fernando de Rojas

We know little information about Fernando de Rojas, a Castilian author.

He wrote La Celestina , originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, in 1499. People see this description of a tragic love affair as the beginning of literary Renaissance of Spain. The author published anonymously but revealed his name and famous birthplace in an acrostic code at the beginning of the second edition in the year 1500. None of his contemporaries mention him, and we know of no other work.

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Carmen Martín Gaite

Carmen Martín Gaite (Salamanca 1925-Madrid 2000) se licenció en Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Salamanca, donde conoció a Ignacio Aldecoa y a Agustín García Calvo. En esa universidad tuvo además su primer contacto con el teatro participando como actriz en varias obras.
Se trasladó a Madrid en 1950 y se doctoró en la Universidad de Madrid con la tesis Usos amorosos del XVIII en España. Ignacio Aldecoa, cuya obra estudiaría posteriormente, la introdujo en su círculo literario, donde conoció a Josefina Aldecoa, Alfonso Sastre, Juan Benet, Medardo Fraile, Jesús Fernández Santos y Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, con quien se casó en 1954. De esta manera se incluyó en la que sería conocida como la Generación del 55 o Generación de la Posguerra.

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Mercè Rodoreda

Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist.

She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', translated as 'The Time of the Doves', 1962) has become the most acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 20 languages. It's also considered by many to be best novel dealing with the Spanish Civil War.

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Federico García Lorca

Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.

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Arturo Barea

Arturo Barea nació en Badajoz el 20 de septiembre de 1897. Su padre trabajaba en el servicio de reclutamiento y murió a los 34 años. Su madre y hermanos se trasladaron a Madrid donde ella trabajó de lavandera. Barea fue educado al principio por unos tíos acomodados (su madre y hermanos siguieron con su vida humilde), pero al morir también el tío, dejó los estudios a los trece años. Trabajó de aprendiz en un comercio, y más tarde en un banco hasta 1914. Le llamaron a filas en 1920 y tuvo que ir a Marruecos, donde vivió la derrota de Annual en 1921.
Se casó en 1924 con Aurelia Rimaldos, y tuvo cuatro hijos, pero el matrimonio no fue afortunado y terminó separándose.
Con la II República se incorporó a la vida sindical en UGT. Durante la Guerra C

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Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican writer and one of the best-known novelists and essayists of the 20th century in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.

Fuentes was born in Panama City, Panama; his parents were Mexican. Due to his father being a diplomat, during his childhood he lived in Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. In his adolescence, he returned to Mexico, where he lived until 1965. He was married to film star Rita Macedo from 1959 till 1973, although he was an habitual philanderer and allegedly, his affairs - which he claimed include film actresses such as Jeanne Moreau and Je

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Azorín

Spanish poet and writer José Augusto Trinidad Martínez Ruíz wrote most of his literary works under the pseudonym Azorín.

The eldest of nine brothers, he studied law at the University of Valencia, then worked as a journalist in Madrid. He later emigrated to Paris.

He also wrote under the names Fray José
(in "The Catholic Education of Petrer") and and Juan of Lily (in "The Defender of Yecla").

He was an anarchist in his youth, but grew more conservative as he aged and supported Franco when the General came to power in Spain (although the author remained in France).

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José Ángel Mañas

José Ángel Mañas nace en Madrid el 22 de octubre de 1971. Es licenciado en Historia Contemporánea por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. En 1994 quedó finalista del premio Nadal con su primera obra, Historias del Kronen. La novela tuvo una gran repercusión y abrió las puertas a una nueva generación de escritores. Tras su publicación el escritor vivió durante varios años entre Madrid y Toulouse. Actualmente reside en Madrid.

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Juan Goytisolo

Desde la trilogía formada por Señas de identidad, Don Julián y Juan sin tierra, que le situó entre los mejores autores de la literatura española contemporánea, la obra narrativa de Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona, 1931) ha derivado en cada nueva singladura hacia territorios inexplorados que cuestionan siempre el género de la ficción. Esta voluntad de ir a contracorriente ha propiciado la gestación de textos tan singulares como Makbara (1980), Las virtudes del pájaro solitario (1988), La cuarentena (1991), La saga de los Marx (1993), El sitio de los sitios (1995), Las semanas del jardín (1997), Carajicomedia (2000), Telón de boca (2003) o El exiliado de aquí y allá (2008).

No obstante, Juan Goytisolo no destaca sólo como autor de ficción, sino que

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Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

Ramón del Valle-Inclán was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in a rural village in Galicia, Spain. Obedient to his father’s wishes, he studied law in Compostela, but after his father’s death in 1889 he moved to Madrid to work as a journalist and critic. In 1892 Valle-Inclán traveled to Mexico, where he remained for more than a year. His first book of stories came out in Spain in 1895. A well-known figure in the cafés of Madrid, famous for his spindly frame, cutting wit, long hair, longer beard, black cape, and single arm (the other having been lost after a fight with a critic), Valle-Inclán was celebrated as the author of Sonatas: The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín, which was published in 1904 and is considered the finest no

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Alberto Méndez

Alberto Méndez (Madrid, 1941 — 2004), hijo del traductor José Méndez Herrera, fue un narrador español.
Nació en Madrid, donde transcurrió su infancia. Estudió bachillerato en Roma y se licenció en Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Trabajó en grupos editoriales nacionales e internacionales. En 2002 quedó finalista en el Premio Internacional de cuentos Max Aub, con uno de los relatos de Los girasoles ciegos, su primer libro narrativo.
Fue galardonado a título póstumo con el Premio Nacional de Narrativa (España) 2005 por Los girasoles ciegos, libro compuesto de cuatro relatos ambientados en la Guerra Civil Española. La obra obtuvo también los premios Setenil y de la Crítica. El último relato del libro -el que le da no

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Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem (b. 1944) is the pen name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman. His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States.
Of Jewish descent, Bergman was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in 1966, and was tutored by Denis Noble FRS, cardiac physiologist and later head of the Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group. In an address to Noble's retirement party at Balliol, he related that Noble's response to Bergman's attempt to become a writer was to ply him with copious sherry. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.
He was an intern at Beth Israel Hospital (subsequently renamed Beth Isra

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Nelly Fernández Tiscornia

Nelly Fernández Tiscornia fue una escritora, dramaturga y guionista de televisión argentina.

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

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Alfonso Sastre

Dramaturgo español autor de una obra caracterizada por su crítica y su fuerte carga social. La Guerra Civil y el impacto que le produjo se reflejó en toda su obra. Comenzó a estudiar ingeniería pero la abandonó pronto. En 1945 fundó con algunos amigos el grupo teatral Arte Nuevo, que se proponía renovar la escena española, y escribió en colaboración con Medardo Fraile el drama "Ha sonado la muerte". Dos años después se matriculó en Filosofía y Letras en Madrid, carrera que acabó tiempo después en Murcia. Mientras tanto continuó escribiendo teatro y también encargándose de la dirección de las obras y la escenografía.

En 1950 redactó el Manifiesto del T.A.S. (Teatro de Agitación Social) publicado en la revista La Hora, en la que también escrib

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Azorín

Spanish poet and writer José Augusto Trinidad Martínez Ruíz wrote most of his literary works under the pseudonym Azorín.

The eldest of nine brothers, he studied law at the University of Valencia, then worked as a journalist in Madrid. He later emigrated to Paris.

He also wrote under the names Fray José
(in "The Catholic Education of Petrer") and and Juan of Lily (in "The Defender of Yecla").

He was an anarchist in his youth, but grew more conservative as he aged and supported Franco when the General came to power in Spain (although the author remained in France).

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Fernando Fernán Gómez

Being probably one of the greatest actors on spanish cinema, Fernando Fernán Gómez also directed many films as adaptations of spanish classic books like "El Lazarillo de Tormes" and wrote scripts, both original and film adaptations. Following this creative side, he wrote many novels and memoir books of his own life and professional experiences.

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Alberto de Frutos Dávalos

Alberto de Frutos (Madrid, 1979) es escritor y periodista. Ha sido redactor jefe de la revista de divulgación histórica «Historia de Iberia Vieja», dirige la publicación trimestral «Turismo Rural» y colabora en «Historia y Vida» y «Muy Historia».

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Luis Cernuda

Luis Cernuda was a Spanish poet and literary critic.

The son of a military man, Cernuda received a strict education as a child, and then studied law at the University of Seville, where he met the poet and literature professor Pedro Salinas. In 1928, after his mother died, Cernuda left his hometown, with which he had all his life an intense love-hate relationship. He briefly moved to Madrid, where he quickly became part of the literary scene. However, his detached, timid and morose character, his search of perfection frequently made him lose friendships and popularity.

His mentor and former professor Salinas arranged for him to take a lectureship for a year at the University of Toulouse. From June 1929 until 1937 Cernuda lived in Madrid and pa

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Ramiro de Maeztu

Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney was a Spanish political theorist, journalist, literary critic, occasional diplomat and member of the Generation of '98.

Maeztu was born to a Basque father and an English mother in Vitoria, the capital of Alava province, on May 4, 1875.

He was among the young Spanish intellectuals deeply affected by their country's humiliating defeat in Spanish-American War of 1898, along with José Martínez Ruiz ("Azorín"), Pío Baroja and others forming the literary Generation of '98. His first collection of essays was published in 1898 under the name "Hacia otra España" ("Towards a Different Spain").

An early advocate of Socialism, he became disillusioned by the Great War while serving as the London correspondent for several Spanish

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Jack Bernstein

Jewish American writer, who became critical about Israel after immigrating to the country.

Bernstein claimed he and his wife were discriminated against because his wife was a Sephardic jew and Bernstein an Ashenkenazim jew.

It is claimed that Bernstein was murdered by the Israeli secret service. His book about his experiences in Israel are still promoted on anti-zionist websites.

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Federico Jiménez Losantos

Federico Jorge Jiménez Losantos es un periodista, publicista, escritor, locutor y empresario español.

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Carlos García Gual

Carlos García Gual (Palma de Mallorca 1943): a Spanish writer, philologist, hellenist, editor, mythographer and critic.

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Jeremy Rifkin

American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist.

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Arturo Barea

Arturo Barea nació en Badajoz el 20 de septiembre de 1897. Su padre trabajaba en el servicio de reclutamiento y murió a los 34 años. Su madre y hermanos se trasladaron a Madrid donde ella trabajó de lavandera. Barea fue educado al principio por unos tíos acomodados (su madre y hermanos siguieron con su vida humilde), pero al morir también el tío, dejó los estudios a los trece años. Trabajó de aprendiz en un comercio, y más tarde en un banco hasta 1914. Le llamaron a filas en 1920 y tuvo que ir a Marruecos, donde vivió la derrota de Annual en 1921.
Se casó en 1924 con Aurelia Rimaldos, y tuvo cuatro hijos, pero el matrimonio no fue afortunado y terminó separándose.
Con la II República se incorporó a la vida sindical en UGT. Durante la Guerra C

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Juan Manuel de Prada

Juan Manuel de Prada Blanco, escritor, crítico literario y articulista español.

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José Díaz Fernández

Writer and journalist actively involved in politics against the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and for the Republic. At the end of the Spanish Civil War he settled in Toulouse.

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Antonio Acevedo Hernández

Antonio Acevedo Hernández (Tracacura, Angol; 8 de marzo de 1886 - 1 de diciembre de 1962)1 fue un prolífico escritor y dramaturgo chileno, de formación autodidacta. Escribió teatro, novela, cuento, crónica literaria y periodística, ensayo, poesía popular y recopilación folclórica. Su obra, junto a la de autores como Germán Luco Cruchaga y Armando Moock, consolidó los inicios de la dramaturgia chilena.

Premio Nacional de Arte mención Teatro en 1954.

Su trabajo rebelde, diferente, que hizo historia en la creación teatral y artística, siempre unido al pueblo, a la masa anónima que con sus dramas, vivencias y simpleza inspiraban su creación.

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José Ignacio Cabrujas

José Ignacio Cabruja Lofiego fue un destacado dramaturgo, director de teatro, actor, cronista, escritor de telenovelas, libretista de radionovelas, autor de guiones cinematográficos y moderador de programas de radio. Es considerado cómo unos de los renovadores del género de la telenovela en Latinoamérica y llamado el «Maestro De Las Telenovelas».

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Juan Benet

Juan Benet Goitia, nace en Madrid, el último de los tres hijos del matrimonio del abogado Tomás Benet Jordana y Teresa Goitia Ajuria. Su padre murió fusilado en la zona republicana al comienzo de la guerra civil, en 1936, después de lo cual su madre se fue con sus hijos a San Sebastián, donde tenía familiares, hasta que en 1939 regresó a la capital.

En San Sebastián, Benet ingresa en un colegio católico y en Madrid continúa sus estudios en el de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, donde termina el bachillerato en 1944. Cuatro años más tarde, ingresa en la Escuela Superior de Caminos, Canales y Puertos.

En 1946 comienza frecuentar la tertulia de Pío Baroja, uno de los pocos escritores españoles de que gustaba, y al que dedicó unas páginas en Otoño en

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his notebooks published posthumously, which he himself called "waste books", using the English bookkeeping term, and for his discovery of the strange treelike patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.

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Leopoldo María Panero

Leopoldo María Panero es un poeta desarraigado, un hombre desclasado que trabaja con sus versos contra la sociedad y contra él mismo, un ser que sufre del complejo de autodestrucción y que transforma ese complejo, esa autodestrucción, en obra de arte. Un maldito, en definitiva. Leopoldo María Panero, aquejado de malditismo, se suicida a cámara lenta y, de esta manera, es capaz de hacer su obra con prisas, iluminada con destellos e impulsada, paradójicamente, por ese descenso hacia el fondo del abismo que, en realidad, busca truncar con violencia, dejar inacabada, esa misma obra. Panero, que busca la poesía en la abominación, reivindica como clave poética la máxima de Mallarmé: «La destruction fut ma Beatrice».

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Brent Nongbri

Brent Nongbri is an Honorary Research Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and the author of Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept and numerous articles on the paleography and codicology of early Christian manuscripts.

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Gloria Álvarez

Gloria Alvarez always wanted to become a writer. As a child, she was fascinated by books--everything from Mother Goose to biographies of Queen Elizabeth I. Once she could hold a pencil, there was no stopping her. She wrote poetry, short stories and songs. As an adult, she’s penned newspaper features, book reviews, even advertising copy. After winning the Romance Writers’ of America’s prestigious Golden Heart award, she sold her first romance novel, and she’s been writing them ever since.

Gloria believes in the power of love, as her own life proves. After graduating from Georgetown University, she worked for several years, but always in the back of her mind was the memory of her first high school sweetheart. Turned out he hadn’t forgotten her

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Agustín de Foxá

Don Agustín de Foxá y Torroba, III conde de Foxá y IV marqués de Armendáriz, poeta, novelista, periodista y diplomático español.

Sus primeros versos los publicó en De todo un poco, revista del Colegio del Pilar. Estudió Derecho en su ciudad natal; en 1930 ingresó en la carrera diplomática y fue destinado a Sofía y Bucarest. Su colega Edgar Neville fue una de sus primeras amistades literarias. Colaboró en revistas como La Gaceta Literaria, Héroe y Mundial, y en la prensa diaria (en ABC desde 1930). Su primer libro, La niña del caracol (Madrid, 1933), con dedicatorias a Ramón Gómez de la Serna, María Zambrano y Marichalar, fue editado y prologado por Manuel Altolaguirre; mezcla elementos del Modernismo con otros procedentes de las Vanguardias

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Jacques de Mahieu

Jacques Marie de Mahieu (en Argentina más conocido como Jaime María De Mahieu) nació el 31 de octubre en París en 1915 y murió el 12 de mayo en Buenos Aires en 1990. Fue filósofo, sociólogo y antropólogo. Terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial se fue a la Argentina.

De Mahieu fue un personaje clave en el pensamiento del padre argentino Alberto Ignacio Ezcurra. De Mahieu había militado en el movimiento monarquista francés de Action Française y colaborado con el régimen de Vichy. Se decía también que Mahieu había peleado en la división francesa Carlomagno, una de las que combatió contra los soviéticos frente a la Cancillería de Berlín, hasta la última gota de sangre y hasta no quedarle más municiones.

Una vez naturalizado argentino, se convirtió d

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Daniel Gómez Aragonés

Historiador y escritor.
Su trabajo en el ámbito de la Historia se ha centrado desde hace más de doce años en el estudio y la divulgación de los pueblos bárbaros y del Reino Visigodo de Toledo. Ha publicado varios libros entre los que destacan Bárbaros en Hispania. Suevos Vándalos y Alanos en la lucha contra Roma (ed. La Esfera de los Libros) e Historia de los Visigodos (ed. Almuzara).
Identidad, Tradición y Esencia son conceptos que forman parte de su vida profesional y personal y la máxima «He combatido la buena batalla, he terminado la carrera, he conservado la fe» (II Timoteo 4, 7) una meta a seguir.

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Vicente Aleixandre

Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize of 1977 for literature.

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo received it at 79 years of age. At the time, people barely knew him with just two available small editions in English translation. Two years later, in 1979, Harper and Row brought out bilingual edition of Lewis Hyde of selected poems of Aleixandre, A Longing for the Light . When people left the book to go out print, Copper Canyon published a paperback edition in 1985. Express Books noted in an article on Aleixandre, “A Longing for the Light remains the only readable collection of Aleixandre’s poetry available.”

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Gabriel Miró

Gabriel Francisco Víctor Miró Ferrer fue un escritor español, encuadrado habitualmente en la llamada generación del 14 o el novecentismo.

Ricardo Gullón ha calificado los relatos de Miró como novelas líricas. Son, por tanto, obras más atentas a la expresión de sentimientos y sensaciones que a contar sucesos, en las que predominan:

- La técnica del fragmentarismo,
- La utilización de la elipsis.
- La estructuración del relato en escenas dispersas, unidas a través de la reflexión y la rememoración.

La temporalidad constituye el tema esencial de la obra del autor alicantino, quien incorpora el pasado a un presente continuado, por medio de las sensaciones, la evocación y el recuerdo. Como, antes que él, hiciera Azorín. También lo sensorial es en la

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Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Ramón Pérez de Ayala y Fernández nació en Oviedo el 9 de agosto de 1880. Era hijo de don Cirilo Pérez de Ayala, oriundo de Tierra de Campos (Valdenebro de los Valles en Valladolid), y de doña Carmen Fernández Viña o Doña Luisa Fernández del Portal, de Asturias, concejo de Valdés-Luarca, su madre murió cuando él era pequeño. Fue bautizado en la iglesia de San Isidoro. A los nueve años ingresó en el colegio de jesuitas de San Zoil, en Carrión de los Céspedes, Palencia. Dos años más tarde pasó al colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción, en Gijón.
Estudió Derecho en la Universidad de Oviedo bajo la protección de Leopoldo Alas, "Clarín". Allí entró en contacto con los pensadores del Krausismo, entre ellos Rafael Altamira, Posada. Le atraía tanto el R

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Xavier Benguerel

Xavier Benguerel (Barcelona, 1905-1990), escriptor i traductor. Resideix al barri del Poblenou de Barcelona fins als 33 anys. L'any 1929 s'incorpora a la novel·la catalana amb Pàgines d'un adolescent. Des d'aleshores escriu més de vint novel·les, un recull de poemes, tres obres de teatre, quatre reculls de narracions i dos llibres de memòries. Abans de la guerra civil espanyola ja havia publicat la novel·la Suburbi (1936), ambientada al barri obrer del Poblenou, ara pràcticament desaparegut per la transformació dels Jocs Olímpics del 1992. En acabar la guerra, s'exilia a Xile fins al 1954. En tornar a Catalunya, reprèn la publicació de novel·les de fons autobiogràfic com El testament i la sèrie de novel·les d'Els vençuts, sobre l'exili. Gua

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Xavier Alcalá

Francisco Xavier Alcalá Navarro, máis coñecido como Xavier Alcalá, nado en Miguelturra (Cidade Real) o 19 de agosto de 1947, é un escritor galego.

Viviu en Ferrol dende a infancia, e estudou no Instituto Concepción Arenal desa vila. Estudou Enxeñaría de Telecomunicacións na Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñaría e Sistemas de Telecomunicación da Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Doutorouse en Informática no Departamento de Electrónica e Sistemas da Facultade de Informática da Universidade da Coruña. Foi profesor asociado de dita facultade, e impartiu docencia tamén na Facultade de Xornalismo da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, a Universidade Católica Arxentina e a Escola de Organización Industrial de Madrid.

Traballou como auxiliar de l

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Jorge Guillén

Fue uno de los más importantes poetas de la generación del 27.

Cursó estudios universitarios en París, dónde se casó en primeras nupcias y posteriormente, en 1917, también dio clases en La Sorobona. También impartió cursos en Oxford. En 1924, con treinta años de edad, regresó a España, dónde inició su carrera literaria.

Siendo uno de los discípulos más directos de Juan Ramón Jímenez, elaboró una poética muy personal que se proponía eliminar lo anecdótico, sustantivizar los adjetivos, preferenciar los versos cortos, reducir el número de verbos, concentrar los temas poéticos y primar la precisión del lenguaje por encima del lirismo. A ese procedimiento se conoce como poesía pura
Tras publicar varios poemas sueltos en revistas literarias, lanzó

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Pío Baroja

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