Real Academia Española

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  Juan de Valdés

  Juan de Valdés (c.1500 – August 1541) was a Spanish religious writer.
  
  He was the younger of twin sons of Fernando de Valdés, hereditary regidor of Cuenca in Castile, where Valdés was born. He has been confused with his twin brother Alfonso (a courtier of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who attended Charles's coronation in Aachen in 1520 and was Latin secretary of state from 1524). Alfonso died in 1532 at Vienna.

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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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  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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  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.
  
  Manrique was a great-nephew of Iñigo López de Mendoza (marquess of Santillana), a descendant of Pero López de Ayala, chancellor of Castile, and a nephew of Gómez Manrique

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  Lope de Rueda

  Dramaturgo español. De oficio batidor de oro, lo abandonó para dedicarse al teatro y fundar una compañía propia con gran éxito. Como autor teatral produjo comedias, coloquios pastoriles, algún auto sacramental y pasos. Sus obras están escritas al estilo de la comedia italiana y suponen el triunfo en el teatro español de la adaptación de la dramaturgia italiana, en un momento en que la influencia italianizante en la lírica castellana estaba completamente consolidada.
  
  Su gran creación la constituyen los pasos, precedentes del entremés e intercalados en las comedias en prosa para entretener al público con una situación de trama sencilla y rápido desenlace, cuya gracia residía en la comicidad de las situaciones y los personajes, que se expresaba

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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.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand...
  

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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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  Bartolomé de las Casas

  Spanish missionary and historian Bartolomé de las Casas sought to abolish the oppression and enslavement of the native peoples in the Americas.
  
  This member of order of preachers, a 16th-century social reformer and Dominican friar, served as the first resident bishop of Chiapas and the first officially appointed "protector of the Indians." The most famous A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias of his extensive writings chronicle the first decades of colonization of the west and focus particularly on the atrocities that the colonizers committed against the indigenous.
  
  In 1515, he reformed his views, gave up his encomienda, and advocated before Charles V, king and holy Roman emperor, on behalf of ri

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  José Hernández

  José Hernández (born José Rafael Hernández y Pueyrredón) (November 10, 1834 – October 21, 1886) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.
  
  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
  
  Hernández, whose ancestry was a mix of Spanish, Irish, and French, was born on a farm near San Martín (Buenos Aires Province). His father was a butler or foreman of a series of cattle ranches. His career was to be an alternation between stints on the Federal side in the civil wars of Argentina and Uruguay and life as a newspaperman, a short stint as an employee of a commercial firm, and a period as stenographer to the legislature of the Confederation.
  Hernán

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  Juan José Millás

  Juan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid where he studied Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad Complutense.
  
  His first novel was influenced by Julio Cortázar and consequently shows the influence of the then-prevalent literary experimentalism, as well as the uncertainty of a fledgling author. Although very original, his second book, Cerbero son las sombras (1975), obtained the Premio Sésamo and received a positive critical response.
  
  Thanks to an enthusiastic member of the judges panel for the Premio Sésamo, Juan García Hortelano, he was able to publish Visión del ahogado (1977) and El jardín vacío (The empty garden) (1981) with the prestigi

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  Antonio Quilis

  ANTONIO QUILIS (Larache, Marruecos, 1933 - Madrid, 2003), ha sido uno de los más prominentes filólogos del último siglo y una de las mayores autoridades en fonética de la lengua española.
  Se licenció y doctoró en Filología Románica en la Universidad de Madrid. Catedrático en la Universidad de Sevilla y luego en la Universidad de Valladolid. Desde 1975 hasta su jubilación estuvo vinculado a la cátedra de Lengua Española de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Entre sus múltiples cargos cabe destacar también el de director de la Revista de Filología Española y el de encargado del Laboratorio de Fonética Experimental del CSIC, entre otros muchos.
  Entre su prolífica bibliografía destacan Métrica española (1969), Fonética acústic

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  Juan de Valdés

  Juan de Valdés (c.1500 – August 1541) was a Spanish religious writer.
  
  He was the younger of twin sons of Fernando de Valdés, hereditary regidor of Cuenca in Castile, where Valdés was born. He has been confused with his twin brother Alfonso (a courtier of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who attended Charles's coronation in Aachen in 1520 and was Latin secretary of state from 1524). Alfonso died in 1532 at Vienna.

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  Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva

  VÍTOR MANUEL DE AGUIAR E SILVA nasceu em 1939, na freguesia de Real, em Penalva do Castelo, Viseu. Licenciou-se em Filologia Românica pela Universidade de Coimbra (1962) e doutorado em Letras pela Universidade de Coimbra. Foi professor catedrático da Universidade de Coimbra até Setembro de 1989, data em que se transferiu para a Universidade do Minho. Nesta Universidade, desempenhou diversos cargos, nomeadamente o de vice-reitor, de 1990 a 2002. Como professor visitante, exerceu funções docentes em várias Universidades estrangeiras. Tem-se dedicado ao estudo da Teoria da Literatura. Os estudos camonianos têm constituído objecto constante da sua actividade de investigador, sendo numerosas as suas publicações nesta área. Foi ainda deputado à A

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  Esteban Echeverría

  José Esteban Antonio Echeverría (September 2, 1805 – January 19, 1851) was an Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only through his own writings but also through his organizational efforts. He was one of Latin America's most important Romantic authors.

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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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  Mariana Enriquez

  Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es una periodista y escritora argentina.
  
  Se recibió de Licenciada en Comunicación Social en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Se ha desempeñado profesionalmente como periodista y columnista en medios gráficos, como el suplemento Radar del diario Página/12 (donde es sub-editora) y las revistas TXT, La mano, La mujer de mi vida y El Guardián. También participó en radio, como columnista en el programa Gente de a pie, por Radio Nacional.
  
  Trabajó como jurado en concursos literarios y dictó talleres de escritura en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez
  Mariana Enriquez is a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and has published two story collections in English,

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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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  Adrián Chávez

  Escritor y traductor, autor de 'Señales de vida' (Fá Editorial); actualmente editor de la revista digital 'La Hoja de Arena' (www.lahojadearena.com) y becario del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) en el área de Novela.

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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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  Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva

  VÍTOR MANUEL DE AGUIAR E SILVA nasceu em 1939, na freguesia de Real, em Penalva do Castelo, Viseu. Licenciou-se em Filologia Românica pela Universidade de Coimbra (1962) e doutorado em Letras pela Universidade de Coimbra. Foi professor catedrático da Universidade de Coimbra até Setembro de 1989, data em que se transferiu para a Universidade do Minho. Nesta Universidade, desempenhou diversos cargos, nomeadamente o de vice-reitor, de 1990 a 2002. Como professor visitante, exerceu funções docentes em várias Universidades estrangeiras. Tem-se dedicado ao estudo da Teoria da Literatura. Os estudos camonianos têm constituído objecto constante da sua actividade de investigador, sendo numerosas as suas publicações nesta área. Foi ainda deputado à A

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