Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.
Calderón initiated what has been called the second cycle of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Whereas his predecessor, Lope de Vega, pioneered the dramatic forms and genres of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Calderón polished and perfected them. Whereas Lope's strength lay in the sponteneity and naturalness of his work, Calderón's strength lay in his capacity for poetic beauty, dramatic structure and philosophical depth. Calderón was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays, even long after they debuted. This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: many of his plays rework existing plays or scenes by other dramatists, improving their depth, comp
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Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ, formerly Anglicized as Baltazar Gracian, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His proto-existentialist writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
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The son of a doctor, in his childhood Gracián lived with his uncle, who was a priest. He studied at a Jesuit school in 1621 and 1623 and theology in Zaragoza. He was ordained in 1627 and took his final vows in 1635.
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Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish letters is second only to that of Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequaled: he is estimated to have written up to 1,500 three-act plays – of which some 425 have survived until the modern day – together with a plethora of shorter dramatic and poetic works.
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Pavao Pavličić
Pavao Pavličić rođen je 16. kolovoza 1946. godine u Vukovaru gdje je završio osnovnu školu i gimnaziju. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu diplomirao je poredbenu književnost i talijanski jezik, a doktorirao je 1974. tezom iz područja metrike (Sesta rima u hrvatskoj književnosti).
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Od 1970. g. zaposlen je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu gdje je i danas redoviti profesor na Odsjeku za komparativnu književnost. Književni i znanstveni interesi kod njega su podjednako zastupljeni i isprepliću se. Kao znanstvenika, Pavličića zaokupljaju teme iz starije hrvatske književnosti i literarne teorije. Iz tog područja objavio je veći broj rasprava i nekoliko knjiga: Rasprave o hrvatskoj baroknoj književnosti, 1979, Književna genologija, 1983, Stih u dr -
David Icke
David Icke is a writer and public speaker.
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He has toured all over world giving presentations and has written over 10 books sharing his research and views regarding the current state of society and global events.
Former BBC television sports presenter and British Green Party spokesman.
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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.
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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 -
Jorge Manrique
Jorge Manrique (c. 1440 – 1479) was a major Spanish poet, whose main work, the Coplas a la muerte de su padre (Stanzas about the Death of his Father), is still read today. He was a supporter of the great Spanish queen, Isabel I of Castile, and actively participated on her side in the civil war that broke out against her half-brother, Enrique IV, when the latter attempted to make his daughter, Juana, crown princess. Jorge died in 1479 during an attempt to take the castle of Garcimuñoz, defended by Marquis of Villena (a staunch enemy of Isabel), after Isabel gained the crown.
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José Zorrilla
Dramaturgo y poeta español que fue una de las figuras más destacadas del romanticismo. Nació en Valladolid y estudió en las universidades de Toledo y Valladolid. Escritor enormemente prolífico, publicó cuarenta obras, en su mayoría historias nacionales, entre 1839 y 1849. También completó los Cantos del trovador (1840-1841), una serie de leyendas españolas escritas en verso. En 1850 se trasladó a Francia y en 1855 a México. De regreso a España, en 1866, comprobó que pese a la extraordinaria popularidad que había alcanzado su obra no podía cobrar derechos de autor. Vivió en la pobreza hasta que finalmente obtuvo una pequeña pensión del Gobierno. En 1889 fue nombrado poeta laureado de España. El genio de Zorrilla como poeta de su tiempo se ad
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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.
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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 -
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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Mariano José de Larra
Mariano José de Larra (24 March 1809 – 13 February 1837) was a Spanish romantic writer best known for his numerous essays, as well as his infamous suicide. Larra's works were often satirical and critical of nineteenth-century Spanish society, and focused on both the politics and customs of his time.
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Juana Inés de la Cruz
Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in a town in the Valley of Mexico to a Creole mother Isabel Ramírez and a Spanish military father, Pedro Manuel de Asbaje. As a child, she learned Nahuatl (Uto-Aztec language spoken in Mexico and Central America) and read and write Spanish in the middle of three years. Thanks to her grandfather's lush library, Juana Inés de la Cruz read the Greek and Roman classics and the theology of the time, she learned Latin in a self-taught way. In 1665, admired for her talent and precocity, she was lady-in-waiting to Leonor Carreto, wife of Viceroy Antonio Sebastián de Toledo. Sponsored by the Marquises of Mancera, she shone in the viceregal court of New Spain for her erudition and versifying ability. In 1667, Juana Inés
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Homer
Homer (Greek: Όμηρος born c. 8th century BC) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history.
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Homer's Iliad centers on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the last year of the Trojan War. The Odyssey chronicles the ten-year journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a literary language which shows a mixture of features of the Ionic and Aeolic dialects from different centuries; the predominant influence is Eastern Ionic. Most researchers believe -
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98, a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898).
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Josip Kozarac
Josip Kozarac (Vinkovci, 18. ožujka 1858. - Koprivnica, 21. kolovoza 1906.), hrvatski je prozaist - novelist, romanopisac, pjesnik, pisac pripovjetki i polemičar, diplomirani inženjer šumarstva, jedan od najpoznatijih hrvatskih šumara.
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Bio je jedan od važnijih hrvatskih prozaista, novelista, polemičara, pjesnika, ujedno i diplomirani inženjer šumarstva te najpoznatiji hrvatski šumar. Osnovnu školu završio je u Vinkovcima, te je pohađao gimnaziju koju je završio s puno muke, ali se sve promijenilo kada je upisao fakultet šumarstva u Beču. Diplomirao je 1879. godine na Visokoj školi za kulturu tla kao najbolji student na svojoj godini. Prije fakulteta živio je dosta slobodan i neobuzdan život. Puno je vremena provodio u prirodi, jednostavno pr -
José Martí
Born José Julián Martí y Pérez, he was a Cuban nationalist leader and an important figure in Latin American literature. During his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a professor, and a political theorist. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol for Cuba's bid for independence against Spain in the 19th century, and is referred to as El Apóstol; "Apostle of Cuban Independence". He also fought against the threat of United States expansionism into Cuba.
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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.
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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 -
Josep Maria de Sagarra
Josep Maria de Sagarra i Castellarnau 1894-1961, Catalonian poet, novelist, and playwright. He published his first poems at the age of 12 and later, on the advice of his mentors Miquel Costa i Llobera and Joan Maragall i Gorina, abandoned law for writing. Among his important poetic works are Cançons d'abril i novembre [songs of April and November] (1918), which makes graceful use of regional idioms, and the epic poem El Comte Arnau [Count Arnau] (1928), which emphasizes the human aspects of myth. His numerous plays, which were enormously popular, are noted for their originality and grace of language; they include L'estudiant i la pubille (1921) and L'hostel de la glòria (1931). His novels are largely social satires.
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Max Aub
Max Aub Mohrenwitz was a Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta (the Sixties), with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.
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Eliza Fowler Haywood
Eliza Haywood (1693 – 1756), born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywood’s literary works have been gaining in recognition and interest. Described as “prolific even by the standards of a prolific age” (Blouch, intro 7), Haywood wrote and published over seventy works during her lifetime including fiction, drama, translations, poetry, conduct literature and periodicals. Haywood is a significant figure of the 18th century as one of the important founders of the novel in English. Today she is studied primarily as a novelist.
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Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Dana was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 1, 1815, into a family that first settled in colonial America in 1640. As a boy, Dana studied in Cambridgeport under a strict schoolmaster named Samuel Barrett, alongside fellow Cambridge native and future writer James Russell Lowell. Barrett was infamous as a disciplinarian, punishing his students for any infraction by flogging. He also often pulled students by their ears and, on one such occasion, nearly pulled Dana's ear off, causing his father to protest enough that the practice was abolished.
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In 1825, Dana enrolled in a private school overseen by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who Dana later mildly praised as "a very pleasant instructor", though he lacked a "system or discipline enough to insure -
Francisco Miguel Espinosa
De madre suiza y adoptado por Madrid, es autor de las novelas XXI (Ediciones B), Cabeza de Ciervo (Dolmen Editorial), Infernorama (Dolmen Editorial) y Reyes del Cielo (Plan B Publicaciones). Colaborador como periodista en El País y Zona Negativa, combina su labor creativa con la escritura de videojuegos en el estudio Bytecore y la docencia en Hotel Kafka. Algunos de sus relatos cortos han sido publicados en antologías tales como Una utopía, por favor (Salto de Página), Retrofuturismos (Nevsky Prospects) o The Best of Spanish Steampunk (Nevsky Books, traducción de Marian y James Womack). Actualmente trabaja en una novela juvenil de publicación en 2017 en el sello Alfagura de Grupo Random House Mondadori.
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Alberto Blest Gana
Fue un novelista y diplomático chileno, considerado el padre de la novela chilena. Se le considera pionero en Iberoamérica de la novela realista, en la misma cuerda de Balzac y Stendhal. Su producción temprana está empalmada con la tradición romántica. Mantuvo apego por argumentos de tema sentimental, pero con tratamientos que hacen énfasis en la observación social y psicológica. En sus principales obras la trama, imbuida en la "pequeña historia", se enlaza habitualmente con un momento clave de la historia de Chile (en muchos casos, historia reciente para aquel entonces). Escribió novelas realistas en castellano bastante antes de que también así lo hiciera, por ejemplo, Benito Pérez Galdós. Blest Gana también incursionó en poesía, artículos
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Jacinto Benavente
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, a Spaniard, wrote his subtly satirical plays, which won the Nobel Prize of 1922 for literature.
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Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
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She started writing poetry, diaries and essays rather early but her works were not published until the beginning of the 20th century.
Her book Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Priče iz davnine), published in 1916, is among the most popular today.In the book Mažuranić created a series of new fairy-tales, but using names and motifs from the Slavic mythology of Croats. It was this that earned her comparisons to Hans Christian Andersen and Tolkien who also wrote completely new stories but based in some elements of real mythology.
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Fernando Savater
Born 21 June 1947, Savater is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author.
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Born in San Sebastián, he was an Ethics professor at the University of the Basque Country for over a decade. Presently he is a Philosophy professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has won several accolades for his literary work, which covers issues as diverse as contemporary ethics, politics, cinema and literary studies. In 1990, Savater and columnist and publisher, Javier Pradera, founded the magazine, Claves de Razón Práctica
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Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega (Toledo, c. 1501– Le Muy, Nice, France, October 14, 1536), was a Spanish soldier and poet. The prototypical "Renaissance man," he was the most influential (though not the first or the only) poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques and themes to Spain. His exact birth date is unknown, but estimations by scholars put his year of birth between 1498 and 1503.
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Garcilaso was born in the Spanish city of Toledo. His father, Pedro Suárez de Figueroa, was a noble in the royal court of the Catholic Kings. His mother's name was Sancha de Guzmán. He had six brothers and sisters: Leanor, Pedro, Fernando, Francisco, Gonzalo, and Juana. Garcilaso was the second-oldest son which meant he did not receive the m -
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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Benito Pérez Galdós
People know Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós especially for his Episodios Nacionales (1873-1912), a series of 46 historical novels.
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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 -
Clorinda Matto de Turner
Nació el 11 de noviembre de 1852 en Cusco, Perú. Fue una importante escritora peruana, precursora de la novela hispanoamericana y del género indigenista. Vivió con su esposo, Joseph Turner, en el pueblo andino llamado Tinta, donde presenció la explotación de la población indígena en la colecta de lana. Esto sería tema principal de su primera novela «Aves sin nido», publicada en 1889. Antes de esta, en 1876, fundó el periódico «El Recreo», su primera vez como directora y redactora, y el mismo año en que se publicó la novela comienza su trabajo como directora de la revista literaria «El Perú Ilustrado». La publicación de la novela le gana la excomulgación por parte de la Iglesia Católica y sus alianzas políticas la obligan a dejar Perú en 190
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Juan Ruiz
Juan Ruiz (ca. 1283 – ca. 1350), known as the Archpriest of Hita (Arcipreste de Hita), was a medieval Spanish poet. He is best known for his ribald, earthy poem, Libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love). He was born either in Alcalá de Henares, or perhaps Alcalá la Real, a village of Jaén, then part of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain. Little is known about him today, save that he was a cleric and probably studied in Toledo. Though his birth name is known to be Juan Ruiz, he is widely referred to by his title of "Archpriest of Hita."
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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.
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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 -
José Triana
José Triana was born in Hatuey, Cuba. He emigrated to Spain in 1954 and studied acting at the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. He began writing plays while he was living in Spain and continued to do so when he returned to Cuba after the revolution. Triana won the Casa de las Américas prize in 1966 for La noche de los asesinos. The play won him great praise and fame as a playwright but caused him to fall out of favour with the Cuban Ministry for Culture as the play was received as a depiction the ineptitude of Castro’s government. Triana has lived in Paris since 1980.
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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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John of the Cross
St. John of the Cross (Spanish: Juan de la Cruz), born June 24 1542, Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major Counter-Reformation figure, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest. He was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered, along with St Teresa of Ávila, as a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. He's also known for his writings. Both his poetry & his studies on the growth of the soul are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature & a peak of all Spanish literature. He was canonized as a saint in 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII. He is one of the 33 Doctors of the Church. (less)
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Roberto Cossa
Roberto "Tito" Cosa es uno de los dramaturgos más importantes de la historia del teatro argentino. Junto a Ricardo Halac integra la Generación del Nuevo Realismo continuando la senda marcada por Carlos Gorostiza.
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Entre sus obras más conocidas se encuentran La Nona, Yepeto, El viejo criado, Gris de ausencia, Los Compadritos, Nuestro Fin de Semana (1964) y Tute Cabrero.
Fue uno de los promotores de Teatro Abierto.
En 1994 recibió el Premio Konex de Platino como el más importante escritor de Teatro de la década en Argentina.
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Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas was a nobleman, politician and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. His style is categorized by what was called conceptismo, characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, simple vocabulary, witty metaphors, and wordplay.
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Joan Puig i Ferreter
Joan Puig i Ferreter va néixer a La Selva del Camp el 5 de febrer de l'any 1882. Fill il·legítim d'un ric terratinent, va passar la infantesa i l'adolescència a Reus amb la seva mare a casa d'uns oncles. El seu pare mai va reconèixer-lo com a legítim. Als quinze anys, quan estudiava batxillerat a Reus, va entrar a formar part del Grup modernista de Reus. Faria amistat amb Josep Aladern, Hortensi Güell, Antoni Isern i Plàcid Vidal.
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José Luis Sánchez Noriega
José Luis Sánchez Noriega (Comillas, Cantabria, 1957) es historiador del cine y audiovisual y crítico cinematográfico español. Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad Pontificia Comillas y Doctor en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense. Su tesis doctoral versó sobre el cine de Mario Camus.
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Imparte clases de Historia del cine y cursos específicos de audiovisual en el grado de Historia del Arte de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y en las maestrías de Arte Contemporáneo y Cultura Visual (UCM-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y MNCA Reina Sofía) y de Teatro y Artes Escénicas (Instituto de Teatro de Madrid-UCM).1 Desde 2005 coordina el Equipo Reseña que publica los anuarios Cine para leer (Ediciones Mensajero, Bilbao), d -
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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.
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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 -
João Aguiar
JOÃO AGUIAR nasceu em 28 de Outubro de 1943. Licenciado em Jornalismo pela Universidade Livre de Bruxelas, trabalhou nos centros de turismo de Portugal em Bruxelas e Amesterdão, regressando a Lisboa e à carreira jornalística em 1976. Foi assessor do Ministro da Qualidade de Vida, no VII Governo Constitucional (1982-83). Foi autor da reportagem Uma Incursão pelo Esoterismo Português (1983) e dos romances A Voz dos Deuses (1984), O Homem Sem Nome (1986), O Trono do Altíssimo (1988), O Canto dos Fantasmas (1990), Os Comedores de Pérolas (1992), A Hora de Sertório (1994), A Encomendação das Almas (Prémio Eça de Queiroz, 1995), O Navegador Solitário (1996), Inês de Portugal(1997), O Dragão de Fumo (1998), A Catedral Verde (2000), Diálogo das Com
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Fernando de Rojas
We know little information about Fernando de Rojas, a Castilian author.
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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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Vjenceslav Novak
Vjenceslav Novak (Senj, 11. rujna 1859. - Zagreb, 20. rujna 1905.), hrvatski romanopisac, novelist, publicist, glazbeni kritičar i pedagog
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Rođen je u doseljeničkoj češkoj obitelji, gdje je majka Senjanka iz doseljene bavarske obitelji. Bio je najugledniji pisac hrvatskog realizma, te su ga zvali hrvatskim Balzacom. Osnovnu i srednju školu je završio u Senju i Gospiću. Poslije završene preparandije u Zagrebu radi neko vrijeme kao učitelj u Senju.
U književnost ulazi 1881. godine pripovijetkom Maca. Napisao je sedam romana. Objavio je tridesetak pripovjedaka, a osim pripovjedne proze piše pjesme, feljtone, dramske pokušaje, recenzije, kritike i rasprave iz muzikologije i muzičke pedagogije.
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Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ bʁɛsɔ̃]; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic and aesthetic style. He contributed notably to the art of film and influenced the rise of French New Wave cinema. He is often referred to as the most highly regarded French filmmaker since Jean Renoir. Bresson's influence on French cinema was once described by Jean-Luc Godard, quoting "Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is the German music.
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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.
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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 -
Siniša Glavašević
Novinar, publicist i prozaik.
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U rodnom Vukovaru je završio osnovnu i srednju školu, a u Sarajevu studij komparativne književnosti i bibliotekarstva. Bio je urednik Radija Vukovar i ratni izvjestitelj. Odveden je 19.XI.1991. iz vukovarske bolnice i od tada mu se izgubio trag. Ekshumiran je iz masovne grobnice Ovčara i identificiran. Sahranjen je 14. ožujka 1997. u Zagrebu, na Mirogoju.
Matica hrvatska u Zagrebu posmrtno mu je 1992. izdala zbirku "Priče iz Vukovara". -
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts.
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Bret Harte
People note American writer Francis Bret Harte for The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870), his best-known collection of his stories about California mining towns.
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People best remember this poet for his short-story fiction, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the Gold Rush. In a career, spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern United States to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but people most often reprinted, adapted, and admired his tales of the Gold Rush.
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Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest works in Latin literature to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.
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August Šenoa
August Šenoa was a Croatian novelist, critic, editor, poet, and dramatist.
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He was a transitional figure, who helped bring Croatian literature from Romanticism to Realism and introduced the historical novel to Croatia. He wrote more than ten novels, among which the most notable are:
Zlatarovo zlato (Goldsmith's gold; 1871)
Čuvaj se senjske ruke (Pirates of Senj; 1876)
Seljačka buna (Peasants' revolt; 1877)
Diogenes (1878)
Šenoa was also the author of the popular patriotic song "Živila Hrvatska".
He was born in Zagreb, then part of the Habsburg Empire, into a family of Czech-German origin. His surname was originally spelled Schönoa. He studied law in Prague. He also lived in Vienna for a while, but returned to Zagreb in 1866. From 1874 to 1881, Šeno -
Jānis Veselis
Jānis Veselis dzimis 1896. gadā. Miris 1962. gadā Milvoki, ASV. Apbedīts Riversaidas kapos Kalamazū.
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Mācījies Neretas Andreja skolā un Jēkabpils pilsētas skolā. 1915. gadā mobilizēts un pēc militārajām mācībām nosūtīts uz fronti, vēlāk ar pārtraukumiem dienējis Latvijas armijā.
Ar 1921. gadu pievērsies galvenokārt tikai rakstniecībai. Strādājis dažādos periodiskajos izdevumos. Iesaistījies dievturu kustībā. Hitleriskās okupācijas laikā bijis apgāda „Latvju grāmata” redaktors.
1944. gadā devies trimdā uz Vāciju, pēc tam 1950. gadā emigrējis uz Kalamazū ASV, kur strādājis par latviešu grāmatu kolportieri. PEN kluba biedrs.
Saņēmis vairākus apbalvojumus: 1928. gadā – Kultūras fonda prēmiju par romānu „Tīrumu ļaudis”; 1943., 1946. gadā – Kultūras f -
Ilze Šķipsna
Ilze Šķipsna (1928–1981) – rakstniece. Mūža lielāko daļu nodzīvojusi Teksasā, ASV. Pārvaldījusi septiņas valodas, nedaudz publicējusies arī angļu valodā, tomēr literāro darbību turpināja latviešu valodā. Izveidojusi un vadījusi Kimbela mākslas muzeja bibliotēku Fortvērā, ASV. Publicēti stāstu krājumi "Vēja stabules" (1961) un "Vidējā īstenība" (1974), romāni "Aiz septītā tilta" (1965) un "Neapsolītās zemes" (1970).
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Dzimta cēlusies Ušuru ezera krastos, Jaungulbenes pagasta dienvidos.
Dzimusi ierēdņa Ēvalda Šķipsnas un apgāda "Grāmatu Draugs" daiļliteratūras tulkotājas Elizabetes Kauliņas ģimenē. Rīgā dzīvojusi jūgenstila namā Elizabetes ielā 9A Vīlandes ielas stūrī. Vasaras pavadījusi vectēva mājās Jaungulbenes pagasta Dreiņos, kur veidojusie -
Pedro Muñoz Seca
Dramaturgo español. Practicó la abogacía y fue profesor particular, pero su verdadero oficio fue el de autor teatral. Máximo representante del teatro humorístico de principios del siglo XX, sus obras gozan aún de una gran popularidad. Su habilidad para versificar y para los juegos de palabras, junto a la distorsión grotesca de la realidad que presentaba en sus piezas, crearon el llamado "astracán", una variante del género chico.
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Aunque por su falta de autocrítica es considerado un autor menor, y a pesar de que sus obras halagaron en exceso a los sectores conservadores, lo cierto es que su teatro cosechó un éxito popular rotundo, hasta el punto que se hizo costumbre aprender de memoria fragmentos de sus estrenos, especialmente de La venganza -
Homi K. Bhabha
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Humanities Center, at Harvard University. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary post-colonial studies, and has coined a number of the field's neologisms and key concepts, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, ambivalence. Such terms describe ways in which colonised peoples have resisted the power of the coloniser, according to Bhabha's theory.
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Alejo Carpentier
Writings of Cuban author, musicologist, and diplomat Alejo Carpentier influenced the development of magical realism; his novels include El siglo de las luces! (1962) and The Kingdom of This World (1949).
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Alejo Carpentier Blagoobrasoff, an essayist, greatly influenced Latin American literature during its "boom" period.
Perhaps most important intellectual figure of the 20th century, this classically trained pianist and theorist of politics and literature produced avant-garde radio programming. Best known Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. With Havana, he strongly self-identified throughout his life. People jailed and exiled him, who lived for many -
Tirso de Molina
Sus padres eran humildes sirvientes del Conde de Molina de Herrera. Luis Vázquez, en su «Gabriel Téllez nació en 1579. Nuevos hallazgos documentales», en Homenaje a Tirso, L. Vázquez, ed., Madrid: Revista Estudios, 1981, pp. 19–36, documenta que nació en 1579. Blanca de los Ríos sostuvo que Gabriel fue hijo natural del Duque de Osuna, alegando una partida de nacimiento prácticamente ilegible y hace nacer a Tirso en 1584. Pero esa tesis carece de fundamento y hoy está completamente desacreditada, ya que de ser cierta Tirso habría necesitado dispensa papal para entrar en la Orden de la Merced. Además, el Duque de Osuna era entonces muy viejo y se encontraba acreditado en Nápoles. Por otra parte, ninguno de sus enemigos contemporáneos le achac
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Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish letters is second only to that of Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequaled: he is estimated to have written up to 1,500 three-act plays – of which some 425 have survived until the modern day – together with a plethora of shorter dramatic and poetic works.
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Fernando de Rojas
We know little information about Fernando de Rojas, a Castilian author.
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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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Ana María Matute
(Barcelona, 1925-2014) Escritora española. Novelista destacada de la llamada generación de los "niños asombrados", su obra describe el ambiente de la posguerra civil. Ana María Matute se dio a conocer en la escena literaria española con Los Abel (1948), una novela inspirada en la historia bíblica de los hijos de Adán y Eva, en la cual reflejó la atmósfera española inmediatamente posterior a la contienda civil desde el punto de vista de la percepción infantil. Este enfoque se mantuvo constante a lo largo de su primera producción novelística y fue común a otros representantes de su generación.
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Las novelas de Ana María Matute no están exentas de compromiso social, si bien es cierto que no se adscriben explícitamente a ninguna ideología política -
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 Zorrilla
Dramaturgo y poeta español que fue una de las figuras más destacadas del romanticismo. Nació en Valladolid y estudió en las universidades de Toledo y Valladolid. Escritor enormemente prolífico, publicó cuarenta obras, en su mayoría historias nacionales, entre 1839 y 1849. También completó los Cantos del trovador (1840-1841), una serie de leyendas españolas escritas en verso. En 1850 se trasladó a Francia y en 1855 a México. De regreso a España, en 1866, comprobó que pese a la extraordinaria popularidad que había alcanzado su obra no podía cobrar derechos de autor. Vivió en la pobreza hasta que finalmente obtuvo una pequeña pensión del Gobierno. En 1889 fue nombrado poeta laureado de España. El genio de Zorrilla como poeta de su tiempo se ad
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Nellie Campobello
Nellie Francisca Ernestina Campobello Luna, born María Francisca Moya Luna (b. November 7, 1900 – d. July 9, 1986), was a Mexican writer. Like her half-sister Gloria, a well-known ballet dancer, she was also known as an enthusiastic dancer and choreographer.
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Campobello was born in Ocampo, Durango the third of six children of Rafaela Luna, and her father was her mother's nephew Jesús Felipe Moya Luna, son of her sister Florencia. Probably this was a reason, why she concealed traces of her past. She handled also her year of birth indiscriminately as 1909 or 1913. She spent her childhood in Parral, Chihuahua and her youth in the city of Chihuahua, where she visited the Inglesa de la Colonia Rosales college. After her father was killed in the Ba -
Andrés de Claramonte
Andrés de Claramonte y Corroy (Murcia c. 1580 – September 19, 1626) was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age.
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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.
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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 -
James Wright
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
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On December 13, 1927, James Arlington Wright was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio. His father worked for fifty years at a glass factory, and his mother left school at fourteen to work in a laundry; neither attended school beyond the eighth grade. While in high school in 1943 Wright suffered a nervous breakdown and missed a year of school. When he graduated in 1946, a year late, he joined the army and was stationed in Japan during the American occupation. He then attended Kenyon College on the G.I. Bill, and studied under John Crowe Ransom. He graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1952, then married another Martins Ferry native, Liberty Kardules. The two tr -
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (pen name La Peregrina) came from a noble background; her father, Manuel Gómez de Avellaneda, was a descendent of the royal family of Navarre and aristocracy of Vizcaya of Spain, and also a commander of the Spanish navy in charge of the central regions of Cuba. Her mother, Francisca de Arteaga y Betancourt, was also from a wealthy Spanish family that had lived in Puerto Príncipe. It is said that her mother’s family is the one that inspired the family in her first novel, Sab.
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At the age of nine, her father died and her mother remarried ten months later to don Isidoro de Escalada, who was also a Spanish officer in Cuba. At 22, in 1836, she left Cuba with her family for A Coruña, Spain. Soon after, she an -
Graciela Montes
Argentine writer, editor and translator. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires.
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James E. Lovelock
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James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Devon, England. He is known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. -
Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda was a Spanish poet and literary critic.
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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 -
Annibale Ruccello
Annibale Ruccello (7 February 1956 – 12 September 1986) was an Italian playwright, theatre director, and actor.
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He studied philosophy and anthropology, his plays reveals his interests. He also studied neapolitan dialect and linguistics. In 1978 he started directing and writing plays with themes borrowed by neapolitan folklore. Ruccello was recognized as one of the most original and promising Italian playwright of his time. He died in a car crash in 1986. -
Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda is pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The identity of Fernández de Avellaneda has been the subject of many theories, but there is no consensus on who he was. One theory holds that Avellaneda’s work was a collaboration by friends of Lope de Vega.
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Critical opinion has generally held Avellaneda’s work in low regard, and Cervantes himself is highly critical of it in his own Part 2. However, it is possible that Cervantes would never have completed his own continuation were it not for the stimulus Avellaneda provided. Throughout Part 2 of Cervantes' book Don Quixote meets characters who know of him from their reading of his Part 1, but in Chapter 59 Don Quixote first learns of Avellaneda -
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich is an American film historian, director, writer, actor and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors (which included William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola, among others), and was particularly relevant during the 1970s with his film The Last Picture Show.
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Andrés de Claramonte
Andrés de Claramonte y Corroy (Murcia c. 1580 – September 19, 1626) was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age.
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Thomas von Steinaecker
Thomas von Steinaecker was born in Germany in 1977. A novelist and journalist, he has also written extensively for radio and is the creator of several documentaries, including Richard Strauss and His Heroines. Two of his novels, Wallner beginnt zu Fliegen (2007) and Die Verteidigung des Paradieses (2016), have been nominated for the German Book Prize.
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Ivo Brešan
Ivo Brešan was born in Vodice (Croatia) in 1936. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. From 1960 until 1983 he worked as a graduate teacher at the Sibenik Grammar School. Since 1983, he has been the art director of the Šibenik Theatre and the Šibenik Intemationational Children's Festival. Brešan is one of Croatia's most performed contemporary playwrights; he often writes in the Šibenik dialect. He has written several very succesful movies scenarios.
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Ulrich Schmidl
Ulrico Schmidl o Schmidel o Schmidt, (1510-1579/1580/1581), fue un soldado lansquenete, viajero y cronista de origen alemán, famoso por la publicación en 1567 de su Verídica descripción.
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Sus testimonios adquieren particular valor por provenir de un conquistador no español (que a su vez publica fuera de España) y en especial, por ser una de las primeras crónicas de los habitantes y territorios que él recorrió por muchos años; y que luego compondrían los actuales países de Argentina y el Paraguay. -
Maria Aurèlia Capmany
Maria Aurèlia Capmany (Barcelona, 1918-1991). Novel·lista, autora de teatre i assagista. És una de les escriptores catalanes més polifacètiques. El 1947 queda finalista del Premi de novel·la Joanot Martorell amb Necessitem morir i el guanya l'any següent amb El cel no és transparent. El seu prestigi com a narradora li arribarà, però, el 1956 amb l'obra Betúlia. El 1959 funda amb Ricard Salvat l'Escola d'Art Dramàtic Adrià Gual, on exerceix de professora, fa d'actriu, de directora i de traductora. També hi estrena tres obres pròpies. En aquesta mateixa etapa és quan apareixen dues novel·les bàsiques en la seva producció, escrites anteriorment, El gust de la pols i Un lloc entre els morts, premi Sant Jordi 1968. Com a assagista, dedica nombro
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Luis de León
A mother bore Luis Ponce de León in 1527.
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Luis de León joined Ordo eremitarum sancti Augustini (eremitic order of Saint Augustine) as an Augustinian friar (fray in Spanish). This Spanish lyric poet, theologian, and academic acted during the golden age.
Luis de León together with Francisco de Aldana, Alonso de Ercilla, Fernando de Herrera and Saint John of the Cross ranked as the most important poets of the second phase of the Renaissance in Spain. The desire of the soul to get away from everything earthly to achieve promises, identified with peace and knowledge, of God inspired his work, part of the ascetic literature of the second half of the 16th century. Moral and ascetic themes dominate all his work.
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José Enrique Rodó
Uruguayan writer and politician.
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Rodó denounced pragmatic utilitarianism and Nordomania the Latin American attraction to North America.
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Catalina de Erauso
From the introduction to Lieutenant Nun by translator Michele Stepto: "She gives 1585 as the year of her birth, though records in San Sebastian indicate she was baptized in 1592. * * * Sometime between 1626 and 1630 -- that is, between the visit to Naples, which concludes her memoir, and her return to the Americas--she wrote down in manuscript or dictated to an amanuensis an account of her life. * * * A 'Relación' of Catalina's final years, published in Mexico in 1653, places her death in 1650 in Orizava, on the road to Veracruz."
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Petar Zoranić
Petar Zoranić (1508 – after 1569) was a Croatian Renaissance writer and poet from Zadar. He is most important as the author of Planine, regarded as the first Croatian novel. Pastoral in nature, the novel was written in 1538 and published in 1569. Zoranić wrote two other novels, Ljubveni lov and Vilenica, but neither of these has survived.
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Rafael de los Ríos Camacho
Rafael de los Ríos Camacho es periodista y escritor. Doctor en Filosofía y licenciado en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense, actualmente es profesor de Psicología General y de Comunicación en la Empresa, alterna las tareas periodísticas con la literatura.
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Dámaso Alonso
Poeta, crítico literario y filólogo nacido en Madrid y que perteneció a la generación del 27. Licenciado en Derecho y en Filosofía y Letras.
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El nombre de dicha generación surge a raíz de un estudio crítico de la obra de Góngora que hizo a próposito de una edición de Soledades. Dicha edición crítica apareció en el año 1927, cuyo número acabó nombrando a tan fértil generación. Durante sus estudios en Madrid participó en la vida intelectual de la mítica Residencia de Estudiantes dónde llegó a coincidir con Buñuel, Dalí y Lorca, entre otros.
Fue catedrático de la Universidad de Valencia y posteriormente catedrático de Filología Románica en la Universidad de Madrid. En 1945 ingresó en la Real Academia Española, de la que llegó a ser director, y e -
Carlos Arniches
Carlos Arniches y Barrera (Alicante, 11 de octubre de 1866-Madrid, 16 de abril de 1943) fue un comediógrafo español de la generación del 98. Fecundo autor de sainetes y comedias, se recuerda sobre todo como pintor de los ambientes populares de Madrid, cuyo chulesco y castizo lenguaje supo recrear de forma inimitable, inspirándose en la zarzuela y en el teatro por horas del siglo xix.
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Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti Merello (December 16, 1902 - October 28, 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. Alberti published his first books of poetry towards the end of the 1920s: Marinero en tierra ('Sailor on Dry Land', 1925), La Amante ('The Mistress', 1926) and El alba del alhelí ('The Dawn of the Wallflower', 1927). This early work fell broadly into the Cancionero tradition, though from a markedly avant-garde perspective.
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After falling in with the other members of the Generation of '27, Alberti began to show the profound influence of Luis de Góngora on his work, most obviously in Cal y canto ('Quicklime and Plainsong', 1929). It was, however, the introspective surrealism of Sobre los ángeles ('Concerning the Angels', 1929), w -
Joan Maragall
Joan Maragall was a catalan poet, journalist and also translator, the foremost member of the modernism movement in literature in Catalonia. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive of Barcelona.
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Ramon Llull
Ramon Llull (c. 1232 - c. 1315), T.O.S.F. (Anglicised Raymond Lully in Latin Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus or Lullius; in Castillan Raimundo Lulio, in Portuguese Raimundo Lulio) was a Majorcan writer and philosopher, logician and a Franciscan tertiary. He is credited with writing the first major work of Catalan literature. Recently surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory. He is also considered a pioneer of computation theory, especially given his influence on Gottfried Leibniz.
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Within the Franciscan Order he is honored as a martyr. He was beatified in 1857 by Pope Pius IX and his feast day was assigned to 30 June and is celebrated by the Third Order of St. Francis. -
Miquel Llor
Miquel Llor (Barcelona, 1894 - 1966). Novel·lista, contista i traductor. La seva prosa, molt elaborada, fa patent la influència de Joyce, Proust, Svevo, Dostoievski i Freud, i és essencial per entendre la recuperació i l'evolució del gènere novel·lístic en la literatura catalana del segle XX, que havia estat minimitzat per moviments com el Noucentisme. Llor es va consagrar amb Laura a la ciutat dels sants (1931), premi Joan Crexells 1930, novel·la on descriu amb profunditat l'atmosfera d'una ciutat hostil al comportament de la protagonista femenina, i que permet a l'autor efectuar una anàlisi pròxima al realisme psicològic. Va treballar durant molts anys a la secció de cultura de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona com a responsable de la correcció o
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Božidar Prosenjak
BOŽIDAR PROSENJAK je rođen 19. kolovoza 1948. godine u Koprivnici. Djetinjstvo je proveo u podravskom selu Kuzmincu. Tamo je započeo svoje školovanje, nastavio ga zatim u Koprivnici, Parizu i Zagrebu, gdje je diplomirao romanistiku na Filozofskom fakultetu. Zaposlio se u Velikoj Gorici kao novinar i urednik kulture u listu i na radiju.
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Godine 1980. pokreće i više od šesnaest godina uređuje biblioteku "Albatros" u Velikoj Gorici. Uređije također Časopise Matice hrvatske u Velikoj Gorici i Društva hrvatskih književnika u Zagrebu. Od godine 1984. djeluje kao slobodni umjetnik. Član je Društva hrvatskih književnika i Republičke zajednice samostalnih umjetnika Hrvatske, gdje je niz godina i član Upravnih tijela.
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Marin Držić
Marin Držić (also Marino Darza or Marino Darsa; 1508-1567) is considered the finest Croatian Renaissance playwright and prose writer. His works cover many fields: lyric poetry, pastorals, political letters and pamphlets, and comedies.
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Antun Gustav Matoš
Matoš was born in Tovarnik in the region of Syrmia, today's Croatian Vukovar-Syrmia County.
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He went to primary and secondary school in Zagreb. His attempt to study at the Military Veterinary College in Vienna ended in failure. He was conscripted in 1893, but he deserted in 1894, fleeing from Croatia to Šabac and then to Belgrade. He spent the next three years in Belgrade, living in his own words as a "cello player, journalist, and man of letters".
In January 1898 he traveled to Vienna and Munich, stayed for a while in Geneva, and then moved to Paris in 1899, where he would stay for five years. During his stay in Paris, he wrote his greatest stories.
In 1904 he returned to Belgrade, visiting Zagreb in secret (as he was still a deserter) in 19 -
Ivan Gundulić
Ivan Gundulić (Giovanni Gondola; nadimak Mačica; Dubrovnik, 8. siječnja 1589. - Dubrovnik, 8. prosinca 1638.) hrvatski je pjesnik, epik, lirik i dramatik.
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Rođen je kao najstariji sin Frana Gundulića i Džive Gradić. Obitelj Gundulić bila je poznata još u 13. stoljeću, a njezini su članovi, kao pripadnici aristokracije, obavljali različite državno-administrativne poslove u Dubrovniku i okolici.
Obrazovao se u Dubrovniku, gdje su mu, uz ostale, učitelji bili Toskanac Camillo Camilli, koji je dopunio Tassov Oslobođeni Jeruzalem te svećenik Petar Palikuća, koji je na hrvatski preveo Život Karla Borromea. Nakon završetka školovanja, 1608. postaje član Velikoga vijeća. Nastavljajući obiteljsku tradiciju, obavlja više državno-administrativnih službi -
Ante Kovačić
Tedious and a hard life through education. After he made to the doctor's degree, he managed to find an employment as a law clerk (Joseph Frank in Zagreb from 1875 to 1880). Eventually, he managed to run his own law firm in Glina, a poor neighborhood, where he often used to pay markers to a party, of his own money.
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He was a prominent supporter of the Party of Rights.
A few days before moving to Djurdjevac, probably experienced the collapse of nerves - gets pneumonia, afterwards, and died not long after. -
Slavko Kolar
Slavko Kolar (pravo ime: Aloysius Vjekoslav Kolar) je bio hrvatski književnik i scenarist. Za života je napisao i objavio više od stotinu djela, a najpoznatija su “Breza” i “Svoga tela gospodar”. Inspiraciju je pronalazio u društvenim zbivanjima oko njega, a njegovo stvaranje je bilo prožeto humorom i satirom. Preminuo je u Zagrebu 15.9.1963. godine.
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Juan León Mera
Escritor ecuatoriano. Heredero y admirador del romanticismo francés, en particular de Chateaubriand, se le atribuye el papel de fundador de la crítica literaria en su país. Miembro del Partido Conservador, fue senador, gobernador en dos ocasiones y ministro del Tribunal de Cuentas. Fundó la Academia ecuatoriana y fomentó la conciencia literaria criollista. Esta preocupación por la cultura criolla se refleja en su Ojeada histórico-crítica sobre la poesía ecuatoriana (1868) y en una carta que dirigió a Menéndez y Pelayo en 1883. Escribió la letra del himno nacional ecuatoriano, los versos de Melodías indígenas (1858) y la leyenda inca en verso La virgen del Sol (1861). Su obra más popular, Cumandá o un drama entre salvajes (1879), se inscribe
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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (12 April 1539 - 23 April 1616), born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, was a historian and writer from the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. The son of a Spanish conquistador and an Incan noblewoman, he is recognized primarily for his contributions to Incan history, culture, and society. Although not all scholars agree, many consider Garcilaso's accounts the most complete and accurate available. Because there was also a Spanish author named Garcilaso de la Vega, he is more commonly known as El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, or simply El Inca Garcilaso.
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Louis MacNeice
Born to Irish parents in Belfast, MacNeice was largely educated in English prep schools. He attended Oxford University, there befriending W.H. Auden.
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He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco (1946). His body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed, but socially and emotionally aware style. Never as overtly (or simplistically) political as some of his contemporaries, his work shows a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his Irish roots. -
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Spanish colonial administrator Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca explored parts of present-day Florida, Texas, and Mexico and aroused interest in the region with his vivid stories of opportunities.
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In the New World, he and three other persons survived the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez of 1527. During eight years of traveling across the southwest, he traded and encountered and in faith healed various Native American tribes before he reconnected with forces in 1536. After returning in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La Relación ("The Relation", or in more modern terms "The Account"), retitled Naufragios ("Shipwrecks") in later editions. People ably consider and note Cabeza de Vaca as a proto-anthropologist for his detail