Rómulo Gallegos
Rómulo Gallegos Freire
Novelista, docente y político venezolano. Se le ha considerado como el novelista venezolano más relevante del siglo XX y uno de los más grandes literatos latinoamericanos de todos los tiempos. Algunas de sus novelas han pasado a convertirse en clásicos de la literatura hispanoamericana.
Ejerce el cargo de Presidente de Venezuela en 1948 por escasos nueve meses, convirtiéndose en el primer mandatario presidencial del siglo XX elegido de manera directa, secreta y universal por el pueblo venezolano, y ha sido el Presidente de la República que ha obtenido el mayor porcentaje de votos a su favor en elecciones celebradas en el país en todos los tiempos, con más del 80% de la totalidad de los votos. Sin embargo, su separación
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Secuestro Express became the nation's biggest box office hit of all time, which enraged then President Hugo Chavez, whose government opened two trials against Jakubowicz, who was forced to leave Venezuela.
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Licenciado en Letras (Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas); Licenciado en Filosofía (Universidad Central de Venezuela); Magíster en Estudios Latinoamericanos (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) y en Estudios Literarios (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Ganador del Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Arturo Uslar Pietri (2010) con Blue Label / Etiqueta Azul. La novela Transilvania unplugged resultó finalista en el mismo certamen.
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Eduardo Liendo
Eduardo Liendo Zurita was a Venezuelan writer and scholar. His novella Mascarada won Honorable Mention in the "Fiction City Award" (Caracas, 1978) and the Pedro León Zapata humor prize in 1981. In 1985, he received the Municipal Prize for Literature. and in 1990, the CONAC book award (from the former national council of culture of Venezuela).
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Born in Masatepe in 1942, he published his first book, Cuentos, in 1963. He received his law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua of León in 1964, where he obtained the Gold Medal for being the best student.
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After a failed attempt to be elected for the senate, he was appointed Legal Secretary of the Colombo-Venezuelan Border Commission to determine the limits with Venezuela, there he had the opportunity to travel through the Colombian jungles, rivers, and mountains, giving him a first hand experience of the subjects he would later write. Disappointed with the lack of resources offered by his government for his trip, he abandoned the commission and continued travelling on his own.
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Estanislao del Campo Maciel y Luna Brizuela fue un militar, funcionario de gobierno y escritor argentino.
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En defensa del Estado de Buenos Aires tuvo destacada actuación en las batallas de Cepeda y Pavón. Era hijo del teniente coronel Juan Estanislao del Campo, rango al cual él mismo alcanzaría.
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Su niñez y juventud se repartieron entre San Antonio de Areco y Buenos Aires. Fue en San Antonio donde se puso en contacto con la vida campestre y de los gauchos, reuniendo experiencias que habría de utilizar años más tarde en Raucho y en Don Segundo Sombra. Fue allí donde conoció a Segundo Ramírez, un gaucho de raza, en el que se inspiró para dar forma a la figura de Don Segundo Sombra. -
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Robert T. Kiyosaki
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Since 2010, Kiyosaki was the subject of a class action suit filed by people who attended his seminars, and the subject of investigative documentaries by the CBC, WTAE-TV and CBS News. In January 2024, Kiyosaki revealed that he was more than $1 billion dollars in debt. -
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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 -
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Wayne W. Dyer
Wayne Walter Dyer was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. Dyer earned a Bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy, a Master’s degree in Psychology and an Ed.D. in Guidance and Counseling at Wayne State University in 1970. Early in his career, he worked as a high school guidance counselor, and went on to run a successful private therapy practice. He became a popular professor of counselor education at St. John's University, where he was approached by a literary agent to put his ideas into book form. The result was his first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold. This launched Dyer's career as a motivational speaker and self-help author, d
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Alexandre Dumas
This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.
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Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
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Mario Puzo
Puzo was born in a poor family of Neapolitan immigrants living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. Many of his books draw heavily on this heritage. After graduating from the City College of New York, he joined the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. Due to his poor eyesight, the military did not let him undertake combat duties but made him a public relations officer stationed in Germany. In 1950, his first short story, The Last Christmas, was published in American Vanguard. After the war, he wrote his first book, The Dark Arena, which was published in 1955.
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Gabriel García Márquez
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He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr -
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Juan Perez Rulfo
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Juan Rulfo nació el 16 de mayo de 1917 Él sostuvo que esto ocurrió en la casa familiar de Apulco, Jalisco, aunque fue registrado en la ciudad de Sayula, donde se conserva su acta de nacimiento. Vivió en la pequeña población de San Gabriel, pero las tempranas muertes de su padre, primero (1923), y de su madre poco después (1927), obligaron a sus familiares a inscribirlo en un internado en Guadalajara, la capital del estado de Jalisco.
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Julio Cortázar
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Arturo Uslar Pietri
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Christopher Morley
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American writer Christopher Darlington Morley founded the Saturday Review, from 1924 to 1940 edited it, and prolifically, most notably authored popular novels.
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Clarice Lispector
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She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered re -
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Miguel Otero Silva
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Hermann Hesse
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.
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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 -
María Dueñas
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Ernesto Sabato
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Su vida estuvo marcada por una constante reflexión sobre la condición humana, el arte y los dilemas éticos del siglo XX. Durante la última dictadura militar en Argentina, presidió la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP), que produjo el emblemático informe Nunca Más.
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Juan Carlos Onetti
Juan Carlos Onetti (July 1, 1909, Montevideo – May 30, 1994, Madrid) was an Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.
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A high school drop-out, Onetti's first novel, El pozo, published in 1939, met with his close friends' immediate acclaim, as well as from some writers and journalists of his time. 500 copies of the book were printed, most of them left to rot at the only bookstore that sold it, Barreiro (the book was not reprinted until the 60's, with an introduction and preliminary study by Ángel Rama). Aged 30, Onetti was already working as editing secretary of the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha. He had lived for some years in Buenos Aires, where he published short stories and wrote cinema critiques for the local media, and me -
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Jorge Icaza
Jorge Icaza Coronel (1906-1978) fue un novelista ecuatoriano.
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Su más célebre novela, Huasipungo (1934), que le daría fama internacional y que lo llevaría a ser el escritor ecuatoriano más leído de la historia república, además se convirtió en una obra fundamental en la evolución de la corriente indigenista del Ecuador, uno de los máximos representantes del siglo XX. Con él, la novela ecuatoriana entra de lleno en la tendencia del compromiso social de la novelística actual. Además de la edición de 1934, la novela Huasipungo fue reescrita en 1953 y 1960, con la última edición quedando como la definitiva del autor. -
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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Luis Rafael Sánchez
Considered by many to be the greatest Puerto Rican playwright of modern times.
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Born and raised in the city of Humacao, Puerto Rico. He enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico in 1955, earning a Bachelors of Arts degree. In 1959 he earned a Masters Degree in dramatic arts in City University of New York. He eventually went to Spain and earned his Doctorate in Literature in 1975, from the Complutense University of Madrid.
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Francisco Herrera Luque
Francisco José Herrera Luque was a Venezuelan writer, psychiatrist and diplomat. Author of well known historical novels, including: Boves, el Urogallo (1972), Los Amos del Valle (1979) and La Luna de Fausto (1983).
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Inés Quintero
Inés Quintero es una historiadora venezolana. Estudio en la Universidad Central de Venezuela y obtuvo los títulos de licenciada, magíster y doctora en Historia. Fue investigadora en el Instituto de Estudios Hispanoamericanos de la UCV, en el cual se inició como preparadora hasta alcanzar la categoría de profesora titular, el más alto escalafón universitario. Obtuvo una beca Fulbright para investigar en la Biblioteca del Congreso en Washington; estuvo un año en la Universidad de Oxford, en la Cátedra Andres Bello, y es individuo de número de la Academia Nacional de la Historia.
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Rafael Cadenas
Rafael Cadenas es un poeta, ensayista y profesor universitario venezolano. Formó parte del grupo «Tabla Redonda» a comienzos de la década de los sesenta. En 1985 recibió el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Venezuela y en 2009 el Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances, en Guadalajara, México.
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Luis Palés Matos
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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.
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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 -
Héctor Torres
Narrador, editor y promotor literario. Autor de los libros de cuentos El amor en tres platos (2007) y El regalo de Pandora (2011), de la novela La huella del bisonte (2008) y de la trilogía de Caracas, compuesta por los títulos: Caracas muerde (2012), Objetos no declarados (2014) y La vida feroz (2016), los tres últimos editados por Ediciones PuntoCero, junto al reciente Presencias extrañas, relatos autobiográficos aparecidos en 2021.
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Codirector del portal Ficción Breve (www.ficcionbreve.org) y cofundador y exdirector del sitio La vida de Nos (www.lavidadenos.com). Coordinó, junto a la novelista Ana Teresa Torres, la Semana de la Nueva Narrativa Urbana y es el actual coordinador (desde 2006) del Premio de Cuento Policlínica Metropolitana par -
Manuel Díaz Rodríguez
Nace en Caracas el 28 de febrero de 1871 y muere en la Ciudad de Nueva York el 24 de agosto de 1927, fue un escritor modernista venezolano.
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Fueron sus padres Juan Díaz Chávez y Dolores Rodríguez, inmigrantes canarios llegados a Caracas en 1842.
Estudió Medicina y viajó a Europa para perfeccionar sus conocimientos científicos. Vivió en París y en Viena, donde se instaló por dos años haciendo desde allí viajes ocasionales a Italia y Constantinopla. Dominó cuatro idiomas y desde su juventud fue un ávido lector, lo que determinó que su inclinación por la literatura se impusiera a la carrera médica.
Su primer libro, Sensaciones de Viaje, fue publicado en París en 1896. Su triunfo como escritor va a ser inmediato ya que obtiene el premio de la Acade