Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (born in Buenos Aires in 1941), who normally goes by just his surname, Fogwill, was an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and novelist.
Fogwill was full professor at the University of Buenos Aires< publisher of a legendary poetry book collection, essayist, and specialized columnist in communication subjects, literature and cultural politics. The success of his story "Muchacha punk" (Punk girl), which received the first prize in an important literary contest in 1980, made him leave his job as a businessman, and begin, according to his words, "a plot of misunderstandings and misfortunes" that took him to his present occupation as a writer. Some of his texts have made their way into diverse anthologies published
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Martín Kohan
Martín Kohan es un escritor argentino y profesor de Teoría Literaria en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y en la Universidad de la Patagonia.
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Sus obras se publican en editoriales como Einaudi (Italia), Serpent’s Tail (Reino Unido), Seuil (Francia) y Suhrkamp (Alemania). Ciencias morales (2007) es su novela más popular y ha sido llevada al cine con el nombre "La mirada invisible", bajo la dirección de Diego Lerman. En la película Kohan interpreta el breve papel de empleado de una tienda de discos. También con Ciencias morales ha ganado el Premio Herralde de Novela 2007.
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Juan José Saer
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Vicente Perfecto Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was born in Buenos Aires, the child of wealthy parents. He began to write in the early Thirties, and his stories appeared in the influential magazine Sur, through which he met his wife, the painter and writer Silvina Ocampo, as well Jorge Luis Borges, who was to become his mentor, friend, and collaborator. In 1940, after writing several novice works, Bioy published the novella The Invention of Morel, the first of his books to satisfy him, and the first in which he hit his characteristic note of uncanny and unexpectedly harrowing humor. Later publications include stories and novels, among them A Plan for Escape, A Dream of Heroes, and Asleep in the Sun. Bioy also collaborated with Borges on an
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Albarracín was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the seventh President of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres and topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the "Generation of 1837", who had a great influence on nineteenth-century Argentina. Sarmiento himself was particularly concerned with educational issues, and is now sometimes considered "The Teacher" of Latin America. He was also an important influence on the region's literature.
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Ricardo Piglia
Ricardo Piglia was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.
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Born in Adrogué, Piglia was raised in Mar del Plata. He studied history in 1961-1962 at the National University of La Plata.
Ricardo Piglia published his first collection of fiction in 1967, La invasión. He worked in various publishing houses in Buenos Aires and was in charge of the Serie Negra which published well-known authors of crime fiction including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, David Goodis and Horace McCoy. A fan of American literature, he was also influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, as well as by European authors Franz Kafka and Robert Musil.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Ricardo Piglia
Ricardo Piglia was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.
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Born in Adrogué, Piglia was raised in Mar del Plata. He studied history in 1961-1962 at the National University of La Plata.
Ricardo Piglia published his first collection of fiction in 1967, La invasión. He worked in various publishing houses in Buenos Aires and was in charge of the Serie Negra which published well-known authors of crime fiction including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, David Goodis and Horace McCoy. A fan of American literature, he was also influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, as well as by European authors Franz Kafka and Robert Musil.
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Julio Cortázar
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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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Pedro Lemebel
Hijo de Pedro Mardones, panadero, y Violeta Lemebel, nació "literalmente en la orilla del Zanjón de la Aguada" y "vivió en medio del barro" hasta que, a mediados de los años sesenta, "su familia se mudó a un conjunto de viviendas sociales en avenida Departamental".
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Estudió en un liceo industrial donde se enseñaba forja de metal y mueblería y, después, en la Universidad de Chile, donde se tituló de profesor de Artes Plásticas. Trabajó en dos liceos, de los cuales fue despedido en 1983 "presumiblemente por su apariencia, ya que no hacía mucho esfuerzo por disimular su homosexualidad".
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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 -
Roberto Arlt
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Patti Smith
PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone.
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Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Wītt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.
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Antonio di Benedetto
Antonio di Benedetto was an Argentine journalist and writer.
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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.
Antonio di Benedetto wrote five novels, the most famous being the existential masterpiece Zama (1956). Los suicidas (The Suicides, 1969) is noteworthy for expressing his intense abhorrence of noise. Critics have compared his works to Alain Robbe-Grillet, Julio Cortázar and Ernesto Sábato.
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Leila Guerriero
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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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Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first novel and is longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.
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Esteban Echeverría
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Vicente Perfecto Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was born in Buenos Aires, the child of wealthy parents. He began to write in the early Thirties, and his stories appeared in the influential magazine Sur, through which he met his wife, the painter and writer Silvina Ocampo, as well Jorge Luis Borges, who was to become his mentor, friend, and collaborator. In 1940, after writing several novice works, Bioy published the novella The Invention of Morel, the first of his books to satisfy him, and the first in which he hit his characteristic note of uncanny and unexpectedly harrowing humor. Later publications include stories and novels, among them A Plan for Escape, A Dream of Heroes, and Asleep in the Sun. Bioy also collaborated with Borges on an
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Federico Falco
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Libertad Demitrópulos
Libertad Demitrópulos fue una escritora argentina.
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Nació en el departamento jujeño de Ledesma en 1922. A los 18 años comenzó a ejercer como maestra de escuelas en Jujuy hasta 1940, cuando viajó a Buenos Aires para estudiar letras. En 1978 se publica una de sus novelas más importantes, La flor de hierro y, tres años más tarde, Río de las congojas. Contrajo matrimonio con el poeta Joaquín Giannuzzi en 1951.
Un año antes de su muerte, recibe el Premio Boris Vian por Río de las congojas. Falleció en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires el 19 de julio de 1998.
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Selva Almada
Selva Almada (Entre Ríos, Argentina, 1973) is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectuals of the region. Including her début The Wind that Lays Waste, she has published three novels, a book of short stories, a book of journalistic fiction (Dead Girls) and a kind of film diary (written in the set of Lucrecia Martel’s most recent film Zama, based on Antonio di Benedetto’s novel). She has been finalist of the Rodolfo Walsh Award and of the Tigre Juan Award (both in Spain). Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish. Her most recent novel, No es un río (This is not a River) has ju
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Luciano Lamberti
Luciano Lamberti holds a bachelor's degree in modern literature from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. He writes for local and national media, works as a high school language teacher, and leads the creative-writing workshop of the Provincial Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Córdoba
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Ariana Harwicz
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Ariana Harwicz nació en Buenos Aires en 1977. Estudió guión cinematográfico en el ENERC (Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica), dramaturgia en el EAD (Escuela de Arte Dramático) y completó sus estudios con una licenciatura en Artes del espectáculo en la Universidad Paris VIII y un máster en Literatura comparada en La Sorbona. Matate, amor, es su primera novela.
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Compared to Nathalie Sarraute, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, Ariana Harwicz is one of the most radical figures in contemporary Argentinian literature. Her prose is characterized by its violence, eroticism, irony and direct criticism to the clichés surrounding the notions of the family and conventional relationships. Born in Buenos A -
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María Gainza
María Gainza nació en Buenos Aires. Trabajó en la corresponsalía de The New York Times en Buenos Aires y fue corresponsal de ArtNews. Durante más de diez años fue colaboradora regular de la revista Artforum y del suplemento Radar del diario Página/12. Ha dictado cursos para artistas y talleres de crítica de arte, y fue coeditora de la colección sobre arte argentino «Los Sentidos», de Adriana Hidalgo Editora. En 2011 publicó Textos elegidos, una selección de sus notas y ensayos sobre arte argentino. El nervio óptico, su primera incursión en la narrativa, ha sido traducida a diez idiomas y fue recibida con entusiasmo por la crítica: «Flamante primera novela» (Ana Wajszczuk, Página/12); «Se cuenta entre lo más trascendental (amén de íntimo
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Dolores Reyes
Dolores Reyes nació en 1978 en Buenos Aires, donde estudió literatura clásica. Es profesora, conocida por su activismo feminista y madre de siete hijos.
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Cometierra es su primera novela, que de inmediato se convirtió en un caso editorial y político en Argentina, para luego repuntar también en España. Está dedicado a la memoria de Melina Romero y Araceli Ramos, adolescentes víctimas de feminicidio, cuyos restos reposan en un cementerio cercano a la escuela de Pablo Podestá, en el área metropolitana de Buenos Aires donde trabaja la autora.
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Dolores Reyes was born in 1978 in Buenos Aires, where she studied classical literature. She is a teacher, known for her feminist activism, and a mother of seven children.
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César González
César González, aka Camilo Blajaquis (Morón, 1989), es un escritor, poeta y director de cine argentino.
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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (San Isidro, 4 de noviembre de 1968) es una escritora y periodista argentina. Es considerada una de las figuras más prominentes de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea, además de ser una destacada intelectual y activista feminista y socioambientalista.
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Horacio Castellanos Moya
HORACIO CASTELLANOS MOYA is a writer and a journalist from El Salvador. For two decades he worked as editor of news agencies, magazines and newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala and his own country. As a fiction writer, he was granted residencies in a program supported by the Frankfurt International Book Fair (2004-2006) and in the City of Asylum program in Pittsburgh (2006-2008). He has also taught in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009, he was guest researcher at the University of Tokyo with a fellowship granted by the Japan Foundation. He has published eleven novels, five short story collections, two essay books, and a diary. His novels have been translated into twelve languages; five of them (Senselessness, The She-De
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Roberto Arlt
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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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Sylvia Molloy
Sylvia Molloy is an Argentine writer and critic who has taught at Princeton, Yale and NYU, from where she retired in 2010. At NYU she held the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities. She is the author of two novels: En común olvido (2002). She has also written two short prose pieces, Varia imaginación (2003) and Desarticulaciones (2010). Her critical work includes La Diffusion de la littérature hispano-américaine en France au XXe siècle (1972), Las letras de Borges (1979), At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991), Poses de fin de siglo. Desbordes del género en la modernidad (2013), and edited volumes such as Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998) and Poéticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura arge
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Alan Pauls
Alan Pauls es Licenciado en Letras y escritor argentino. Sus novelas, ensayos y cuentos han sido traducidos al inglés, al francés, al portugués, al rumano, al italiano, al holandés y al alemán.
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Además de su labor como autor, Pauls ha enseñado teoría literaria en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, ha trabajado como periodista en el suplemento cultural del diario porteño Página/12 y ha firmado varios guiones cinematográficos. Su novela El Pasado, ganadora del Premio Herralde en 2003, ha sido adaptada al cine por el director argentino-brasileño Héctor Babenco. -
Angélica Gorodischer
Angélica Beatriz del Rosario Arcal de Gorodischer es una multipremiada autora argentina reconocida como una de las figuras femeninas más importantes dentro de la Ciencia-Ficción y Fantasía iberoamericana, aunque ha trabajado otros géneros.
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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.
In 1953 he received the Buenos Aires Municipal Literature Award for his book Variaciones en Rojo. In 1957 he finished Operación Masacre, an investigative work on the assassination of opposition figures duri -
Carlos Busqued
Carlos Busqued nació en Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco (Argentina), en 1970 y falleció el 29 de Marzo de 2021. Produjo los programas de radio Vidas Ejemplares, El otoño en Pekín y Prisionero del Planeta Infierno. Colaboró en la revista El Ojo con Dientes.
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Carlos Busqued was born in the northern Argentinian province of Chaco in 1970. He passed away on 29 March 2021. Under This Terrible Sun is his first novel. -
Sergio Bizzio
Sergio Bizzio es narrador, dramaturgo y director de cine. Publicó las novelas El divino convertible (1990), Infierno Albino (1992), Son del África (1993), Más allá del bien y lentamente (1995), Planet (1998), En esa época (2001), Rabia (2004), Era el cielo (2007), el libro de cuentos Chicos (2003), el ensayo en verso El genio argentino (2005), y las colecciones de poemas Gran salón con piano (1982), Mínimo figurado (1990), Paraguay (1995), El abanico matamoscas (2002), y Te desafío a correr como un idiota por el jardín (2008). Escribió las obras de teatro Gravedad (1999), La china (1995, en colaboración con Daniel Guebel), El amor (1995), y la novela El día feliz de Charlie Feiling (2006). Dirigió los largometrajes Animalada (2001), 100 tra
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Rafael Pinedo
Nació en Buenos Aires. Se licenció en la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de esa ciudad, donde ejerció como informático y, durante un tiempo, actor teatral. A los dieciocho años quemó todo lo que había escrito hasta entonces, y sólo a los cuarenta retomó la producción literaria. Su primera novela, Plop, obtuvo el Primer Premio de Novela Casa de las Américas en 2002. Fue editada en Cuba en 2003 y en Argentina en 2004, en la prestigiosa colección Línea C de narrativa fantástica y de ciencia ficción que dirigió Marcelo Cohen para Interzona editora. Desde su publicación en Argentina, Plop fue considerada una obra de culto, elogiada por la crítica como una novela excepcionalmente original y atípica. Lamentablemente la carrera literaria d
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Al Álvarez
Alfred Alvarez was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.
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Yuri Herrera
Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied Politics in Mexico, Creative Writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, was published to great critical acclaim in 2015 and included in many Best-of-Year lists, including The Guardian‘s Best Fiction and NBC News’s Ten Great Latino Books, going on to win the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. He is currently teaching at the Tulane University, in New Orleans.
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Leopoldo Lugones
Leopoldo Lugones Argüello (13 June 1874 - 18 February 1938) was an Argentine writer and journalist.
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Luis María Pescetti
Luis María Pescetti nació en San Jorge, provincia de Santa Fe, en 1958. Es compositor, comediante y escritor. Fue profesor de música en escuelas, y colaboró en el Plan Nacional de Lectura de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación (Argentina), viajando por todo el país, con charlas, seminarios y talleres sobre creatividad y animación musical. Trabajó en radio, televisión y teatros de Cuba, Estados Unidos, España, Colombia, Chile, Brasil, Perú, Uruguay, México y Argentina, últimos dos países en donde continúa haciendo radio. Tiene editados seis discos y más de veinte libros publicados en diversos países de América Latina y España, varios de ellos con premios nacionales e internacionales, como Premio Nacional Cuadro de Honor de la Literatura In
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Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Rodrigo Rey Rosa is perhaps the most prominent writer on the Guatemalan literary scene. Along with the work of writers like Roberto Bolaño, Horacio Castellanos Moya, and Fernando Vallejo, Rey Rosa’s fiction has been widely translated and internationally acclaimed. His books include Dust on Her Tongue, The Beggar’s Knife, and The Pelcari Project, all of which were translated into English by the late Paul Bowles. In addition to his many novels and story collections, Rey Rosa has translated books by Bowles, Norman Lewis, François Augiéras, and Paul Léautaud.
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Jorge Barón Biza
Jorge Barón Biza fue un escritor, periodista, traductor, editor, escritor fantasma, docente y crítico argentino nacido en Córdoba, hijo del también escritor Raúl Barón Biza y de la pedagoga y dirigente radical Rosa Clotilde Sabattini.
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Leonardo Oyola
Leonardo A. Oyola nació en Buenos Aires en 1973. Su primera novela, Siete & el Tigre Harapiento (Gárgola, 2005) obtuvo la tercera mención del Premio Clarín-Alfaguara en 2004.
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Su segundo trabajo, Hacé que la noche venga, será próximamente publicado por Sudamericana. En España, la editorial Salto de Página editó en 2007 su tercera novela, Chamamé, y este año la cuarta: Gólgota. Sus relatos han sido antologados en diversas recopilaciones. Actualmente colabora como crítico cinematográfico para la edición argentina de Rolling Stone. -
Ana Ojeda
Ana Ojeda nació en Buenos Aires en 1979.
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Osvaldo Lamborghini
Osvaldo Lamborghini fue un escritor y poeta argentino. Tras su exilio del país en 1976, vivió los últimos diez años de su vida en Barcelona, España.
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Julián López
Julián López (Buenos Aires, 1965) es un escritor argentino. Su primera novela, Una muchacha muy bella (2013), fue llamada «un libro inolvidable» por María Moreno, y fue elegida como «la novela del año» por Revista Ñ, además de haberse editado tiempo después en Francia, Holanda y Estados Unidos, entre otros. Desde 2006 codirige el ciclo de lecturas Carne Argentina.
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Iosi Havilio
Iosi Havilio es un escritor y guionista argentino.
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Formado en filosofía, música y cine, en 2006 publicó Opendoor, su primera novela junto a la editorial argentina Entropía. En abril de 2009, el mismo libro fue editado en España por Caballo de Troya. Opendoor narra en primera persona la experiencia de una joven veterinaria en el entorno rural cercano a un hospital siquiátrico. El debut de Havilio fue bien recibido por la crítica.
Posteriormente, Havilio participó de la antología Buenos Aires/Escala 1:1 (Entropía, 2008) y de la edición española de La Joven Guardia (Belacqua, 2009). En 2010 publicó Estocolmo, su segunda novela, que relata la historia de un homosexual chileno exiliado en Suecia luego del golpe de Estado de 1973 y que regresa a su -
Marcelo Larraquy
Nació el 23/07/1965. Periodista y Licenciado en Historia (UBA). Profesor de Periodismo (UB). Se inició como cronista de deportes del diario La Prensa (PK). Fue corresponsal de la revista italiana Guerin Sportivo. Publicó en los diarios españoles El País y Diario 16. Subeditor de la revista Noticias durante 8 años. Ganó el Premio Pléyade a la Mejor Investigación Periodística (1999). En el exterior, editó artículos sobre la frontera de Panamá y Costa Rica (Premio Anual SIP, 2006). Escribió los libros Galimberti. De Perón a Susana. De Montoneros a la CIA (2000, en coautoría); López Rega, la biografía (2003); Fuimos soldados: Historia secreta de la contraofensiva montonera (2006); López Rega, el peronismo y la Triple A (2007). En 2009 inició la
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