Ricardo Güiraldes
Ricardo Güiraldes (Buenos Aires, 13 de febrero de 1886 - París, 8 de octubre de 1927) fue un novelista y poeta argentino.
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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Su novela más imortante fue Juan Moreira que fue escrita en el año 1880. Esta obra adquirió gran popularidad y fue llevada al circo criollo, el teatro, el cine y la historieta.
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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.
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Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt was an Argentine writer born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His parents were both immigrants: his father Karl Arlt was a Prussian from Posen (now Poznan in present-day Poland) and his mother was Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer, a native of Trieste and Italian speaking. German was the language commonly used at their home. His relationship with his father was stressful, as Karl Arlt was a very severe and austere man, by Arlt's own account. The memory of his oppressive father would appear in several of his writings. For example, Remo Erdosain (a character at least partially based on Arlt's own life) often recalls his abusive father and how little if any support he would give him. After being expe
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Norah Lange fue una narradora y poetisa argentina de vanguardia, vinculada primero al Grupo Martín Fierro, especialmente con Jorge Luis Borges y luego al Grupo Proa de Leopoldo Marechal. Destacada por haber roto en Argentina el canon de que las mujeres no debían escribir prosa.
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Hija del noruego Gunnar Lange y la irlandesa Berta Erfjord fue la cuarta de seis hijos. Llamativa por su condición de pelirroja, se destacaba por su audacia para irrumpir en ámbitos hasta entonces reservados a los varones.
Se le supone un amor juvenil con Jorge Luis Borges, quien prologó su primer libro La calle de la tarde (1925) y de Leopoldo Marechal que la inmortalizó en Adán Buenosayres como Solveig Amundsen.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
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Estanislao del Campo
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.
Al estrenarse la ópera Fausto de Gounod, con libreto de Michel Carrié y J. Barbier, en el Teatro Colón, el 24 de agosto de 1866, Del Campo concurrió al estreno. Dicho estreno había recibido mucha atención de la gente: se publicaron resúmenes en los periódicos y se hicieron traducciones del libreto. Del Campo utiliza esta ópera como referente para un poema que es su obra más conocida y recordada: "Fausto, Impresiones del gaucho Anastasio el Pollo en la -
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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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Sara Gallardo
Sara Gallardo Drago Mitre (*Buenos Aires, 23 de diciembre de 1931-†14 de junio de 1988) fue una escritora argentina de la generación de narradoras y poetas de la década del 50-60, durante el boom de la literatura latinoamericana, junto a colegas coterráneas como Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch, Beatriz Guido, Luisa Mercedes Levinson, Norah Lange, Alejandra Pizarnik, Elvira Orphée y Silvina Ocampo. Su novela Eisejuaz es un ejemplo del temprano realismo mágico sudamericano.
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Eduardo Gutiérrez
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Guillermo Martínez
Guillermo Martínez is an Argentinian novelist and short story writer. He gained a PhD in mathematical logic at the University of Buenos Aires.
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After his degree in Argentina, he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford.
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Rodolfo Walsh
Rodolfo Jorge Walsh was an Argentine writer, considered the founder of investigative journalism in Argentina. He remains disappeared since March 25, 1977.
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After finishing the primary education in his small town in Río Negro Province, Walsh moved to Buenos Aires in 1941, where he completed high school. Although he started studying philosophy at university, he abandoned it and did a number of different jobs, including editorial. In the late 1940s he joined the Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista, from which he later moved to the Peronist cause.
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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.
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Antonio di Benedetto
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Di Benedetto began writing and publishing stories in his teens, inspired by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Luigi Pirandello. Mundo Animal, appearing in 1952, was his first story collection and won prestigious awards. A revised version came out in 1971, but the Xenos Books translation uses the first edition to catch the youthful flavor.
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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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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.
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Silvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo Aguirre was a poet and short-fiction writer.
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Ocampo was the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo, the publisher of the literarily important Argentine magazine Sur.
Silvina was educated at home by tutors, and later studied drawing in Paris under Giorgio de Chirico. She was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares, whose lover she became (1933) when Bioy was 19. They were married in 1940. In 1954 she adopted Bioy’s daughter with another woman, Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954-94) who was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo’s death. -
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Leopoldo Lugones
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Roberto Bolaño
For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher, a campground custodian, bellhop and garbage collector — working during the day and writing at night.
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He continued with his poetry, before shifting to fiction in his early forties. In an interview Bolaño stated that he made this decision because he felt responsible for the future financial well-being of his family, which he knew he could never secure from the earnings of a poet. This was confirmed by Jorge Herralde, who explained that Bolaño "aband -
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Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967. Asturias's writings combine the mysticism of the Maya with epic impulse toward social protest. His most famous novel is EL SEÑOR PRESIDENTE (1946), about life under the rule of a ruthless dictator. Asturias spent much of his life in exile because of his public opposition to dictatorial rule.
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Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig (born Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne) was an Argentinian author. Among his best known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968) (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth), Boquitas pintadas (1969) (Heartbreak Tango), and El beso de la mujer araña (1976) (Kiss of the Spider Woman), which was made into a film by the Argentine-Brazilian Director, Héctor Babenco and in 1993 into a Broadway musical.
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Marco Denevi
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Juan Rulfo
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.
Durante sus años en San Gabriel entró en contacto con la biblioteca de un cura (básicamente literaria), depositada en la casa familiar, y recordará siempre estas lecturas, esenciales en su formación literaria. Algunos acostumbran destacar su temprana orfandad como determinante en su vocación artí -
Alejo Carpentier
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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 -
Mariano Azuela
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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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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 -
Juan Gelman
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Armando Discépolo
Armando Discépolo fue un destacado director teatral y dramaturgo argentino, creador del grotesco criollo y autor de varias obras clásicas del teatro argentino como Stéfano, Mustafá, El organito y Babilonia, entre otras. El conocido poeta y compositor de tango, Enrique Santos Discépolo, era su hermano.
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Eduarda Mansilla
Eduarda Damasia Mansilla Ortiz de Rozas de García (1834–1892) was a noted Argentine writer. She was the sister of Lucio V. Mansilla and niece of Juan Manuel de Rosas. Her first novel under her own name was Pablo ou la via dans les pampas in 1869 (written in French and lauded by Victor Hugo). She also wrote of her visits to the United States and journalist works. It is one of the first argentine women to reach success in the literary field.
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Rafael Obligado
Rafael Obligado (Buenos Aires, 27 de enero de 1851 - Mendoza, 8 de marzo de 1920) fue un escritor, poeta y académico argentino, padre del también poeta Carlos Obligado.
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Sus padres Luis Obligado y Saavedra y María Jacinta Ortiz Urién eran de la clase patricia, y le brindaron excelente educación. Cursó estudios en el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. Inició estudios en la Facultad de Derecho, pero los abandonó rápidamente. Su vocación lo llevó al estudio de los clásicos, antiguos y españoles.
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José Enrique Rodó
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Roberto Fernández Retamar
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