Rodolfo Walsh
Rodolfo Jorge Walsh was an Argentine writer, considered the founder of investigative journalism in Argentina. He remains disappeared since March 25, 1977.
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
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Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history.
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The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."
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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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Marcelo Figueras
Marcelo Figueras (born 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer and a screenwriter.
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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi -
Juan José Saer
Juan José Saer was an Argentine writer, considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the 20th century. He is considered the most important writer of Argentina after Jorge Luis Borges and the best Argentine writer of the second half of the 20th century.
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Eduardo Gutiérrez
Eduardo Gutiérrez fue un escritor argentino que se destacó por sus obras de contenido histórico costumbrista y gauchesco.
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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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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.
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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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Sarmiento grew up in a poor but politically active family that paved the way for much of his future accomplishments. Between 1843 and 1850 he was freque -
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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Eugenio Cambaceres
Eugenio Cambaceres was an Argentine writer and politician. In the 1880s he wrote four books, with Sin rumbo being his masterpiece. His promising literary career was cut short when he died of tuberculosis.
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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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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. -
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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Lucio V. Mansilla
Lucio Victorio Mansilla was an Argentine writer, journalist, traveler, politician and diplomatic, famous for his book An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians (Una excursión a los indios ranqueles), write after a journey through ranquel territory in 1870. He belongs to the politic and literary current know as 80' Generation (Generación del 80).
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Norah Lange
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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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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María Moreno
María Moreno es narradora y crítica cultural. Se inició como periodista en el diario La Opinión y en 1983 fundó la revista Alfonsina. Fue secretaria de redacción del diario Tiempo Argentino en el área de vida cotidiana y colaboró en el diario Sur y en las revistas Babel y Fin de Siglo. Es autora de la novela El affaire Skeffington (1992) y de los ensayos El petiso orejudo (1994), A tontas y a locas (2001), El fin del sexo y otras mentiras (2002) y Vida de vivos (2005).
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Esther Cross
Esther Cross estudió Letras y es licenciada en Psicología. Ha publicado las novelas Crónica de alados y aprendices (1992), considerada una de las revelaciones literarias del año y La inundación (1993), ganadora del Premio Fortabat ; el volumen de relatos La divina proporción y otros cuentos (1994), algunos de los cuales han recibido importantes distinciones en el país y en el extranjero ; y, junto a Félix Della Paolera, Bioy Casares a la hora de escribir (1988, Tusquets, Ensayo 2), libro de entrevistas con el gran narrador argentino. En 1998, obtuvo la Beca Fullbright.
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Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman is one of the most read and influential poets in the Spanish language. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956 and has been translated into fourteen languages. A political activist and critical journalist since his youth, Gelman has not only been a literary paradigm but also a moral one, within and outside of Argentina. Among his most recent awards are the National Poetry Prize (Argentina, 1997), the Juan Rulfo Prize in Latin American and Caribbean Literature (Mexico, 2000), the Pablo Neruda Prize (Chile, 2005), the Queen Sofia Prize in Ibero-American Poetry (Spain, 2005), and the Cervantes Prize (the most important award given to a Hispanic writer, Spain, 2007).
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Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris. From 1957 to 1961 he was a film critic in Buenos Aires for the La Nación newspaper, and he then was editor in chief (1962-69) of the magazine Primera Plana. From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a reporter in Paris. In 1969 Martínez interviewed former Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón, who was exiled in Madrid. These interviews were the basis for two of his more celebrated novels, La Novela de Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995). In 1970 he and many former writers of Primera Plana worked at the magazine Panorama, where Martínez was the director.
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Sergio Aguirre
Sergio Aguirre es un escritor argentino de novelas de misterio.
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Desde su niñez se sintió atraído por la lectura, y se considera escritor desde los 12 años.
El libro Intimidades de un psiquiatra, de David Viscott lo llevó a interesarse por esto: "...me identifiqué con el personaje me gustó la profesión, que era sentarse y escuchar historias extrañas, ayudar a la gente, curar... Estudié psicología, luego me interesé por el psicoanálisis, por Lacan..."
Como psicólogo, estuvo a cargo de la coordinación del Taller Literario del Hospital Neuropsiquiátrico de Córdoba.
Una de sus obras más reconocidas, Los vecinos mueren en las novelas, fue adaptada para teatro.
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Ricardo Güiraldes
Ricardo Güiraldes (Buenos Aires, 13 de febrero de 1886 - París, 8 de octubre de 1927) fue un novelista y poeta argentino.
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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. -
Mario Levrero
Jorge Mario Varlotta Levrero, más conocido como Mario Levrero fue un escritor, fotógrafo, librero, guionista de cómics, columnista, humorista, creador de crucigramas y juegos de ingenio uruguayo. En sus últimos años de vida dirigió un taller literario.
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Jorge Mario Varlotta Levrero, born in Montevideo in 1940 and died there in 2004. Before becaming a cult writer and being considered as a master by many of the best writers in Latin America, Levrero first was a photographer, bookseller comics script writer, humorist, crossword author, creator of brain games. In his later years, he directed a literary workshop.
Levrero’s writing, structured around humour and unease, takes the form of a clean prose based on the psychological that has been charact -
Hugo Alconada Mon
Hugo Alconada Mon es abogado; magíster por la Universidad de Navarra, España; visiting scholar en la Universidad de Missouri; becario del Draper-Hills Program de la Universidad de Stanford; y becario Eisenhower.
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En enero de 2002 ingresó en el diario La Nación, y entre enero de 2005 y febrero de 2009 fue su corresponsal en los Estados Unidos. Sus notas y reportajes fueron publicados en medios de España, México, Estados Unidos, Brasil, Colombia, Perú, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela y Chile, entre otros países.
En la actualidad se desempeña como prosecretario de Redacción, abocado a investigaciones sobre corrupción, lavado de activos y fraude corporativo.
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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 -
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
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Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Joh -
Alejandro Casona
Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina until April 1962, when he definitively returned to Spain.
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Peter Mayle
Peter Mayle was a British author famous for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. He spent fifteen years in advertising before leaving the business in 1975 to write educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young people. In 1989, A Year in Provence was published and became an international bestseller. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages, and he was a contributing writer to magazines and newspapers. Indeed, his seventh book, A Year in Provence, chronicles a year in the life of a British expatriate who settled in the village of Ménerbes. His book A Good Year was the basis for the eponymous 2006 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring actor Russell Crowe. Peter Mayle
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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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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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Alejandra Pizarnik
Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-administered overdose of barbiturates on 25 September 1972. A few words scribbled on a slate that same month, reiterating her desire to go nowhere "but to the bottom," sum up her lifelong aspiration as a human being and as a writer. The compulsion to head for the "bottom" or "abyss" points to her desire to surrender to nothingness in an ultimate experience of ecstasy and poetic fulfillment in which life and art would be fused, albeit at her own risk. "Ojalá pudiera vivir solamente en éxtasis, haciendo el cuerpo del poema con mi cuerpo" (If I cou
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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. -
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen -
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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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.
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Claudia Piñeiro
Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province.
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Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman is one of the most read and influential poets in the Spanish language. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956 and has been translated into fourteen languages. A political activist and critical journalist since his youth, Gelman has not only been a literary paradigm but also a moral one, within and outside of Argentina. Among his most recent awards are the National Poetry Prize (Argentina, 1997), the Juan Rulfo Prize in Latin American and Caribbean Literature (Mexico, 2000), the Pablo Neruda Prize (Chile, 2005), the Queen Sofia Prize in Ibero-American Poetry (Spain, 2005), and the Cervantes Prize (the most important award given to a Hispanic writer, Spain, 2007).
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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.
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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 -
Cristian Alarcón
Licenciado en la Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, ha escrito los libros de investigación Cuando me muera quiero que me toquen cumbia (premio Samuel Chavkin a la Integridad Periodística en América Latina, otorgado por North American Congress of Latin American Authors) y Si me querés, quereme transa.
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En 2012 fue elegido profesor visitante en el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Texas, en Austin.
Escribió en Página/12, revista TXT y el diario Crítica. Dirige la revista digital de crónicas narrativas Anfibia de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín, coordina Cosecha Roja, la Red Latinoamericana de Periodismo Judicial, y es director del posgrado en Periodismo Cultural de -
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
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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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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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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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. -
Martín Caparrós
Martín Caparrós es un periodista y escritor argentino. Comenzó su carrera periodística en el diario Noticias en 1973, en la sección policial, a cargo de Rodolfo Walsh. En la dictadura, abandonó el país y se exilió en Europa: se licenció en Historia en la Universidad de París; más tarde vivió en Madrid, hasta 1983. Tras el retorno de la democracia a Argentina, regresó a Buenos Aires. Vive en España y publica sus columnas en El País de Madrid y el New York Times.
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Darío Sztajnszrajber
Filósofo, ensayista, profesor y presentador de televisión argentino. Desarrolla una importante labor en la divulgación de la filosofía.
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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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Nelly Fernández Tiscornia
Nelly Fernández Tiscornia fue una escritora, dramaturga y guionista de televisión argentina.
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Ejerció la docencia durante 30 años, en el Instituto Juan José Castelli (Ramos Mejía), tiempo en el que fundó un teatro vocacional en dicha institución.
Durante mucho tiempo produjo textos que no fueron aceptados en los medios televisivos a los que le ofreció ni tuvieron trascendencia. Fue en 1965 cuando un guión de un teleteatro fue aceptado en Canal 7, siendo protagonizado por Telma del Río. En 1982 fue guionista de un ciclo de especiales, ideados por la actriz Dora Baret. Se consagró con el unitario "Situación límite", siendo la única guionista del mismo. Realizó 120 libros durante tres años para este programa, que se emitía por ATC. Escribió la ob -
Cristian Alarcón
Licenciado en la Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, ha escrito los libros de investigación Cuando me muera quiero que me toquen cumbia (premio Samuel Chavkin a la Integridad Periodística en América Latina, otorgado por North American Congress of Latin American Authors) y Si me querés, quereme transa.
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En 2012 fue elegido profesor visitante en el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Texas, en Austin.
Escribió en Página/12, revista TXT y el diario Crítica. Dirige la revista digital de crónicas narrativas Anfibia de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín, coordina Cosecha Roja, la Red Latinoamericana de Periodismo Judicial, y es director del posgrado en Periodismo Cultural de -
Marco Denevi
Marco Denevi (May 12, 1922 in Sáenz Peña, Buenos Aires – December 12, 1998) was an Argentine award-winning author of novels and short stories, as well as a lawyer and journalist. His work is characterized by its originiality and depth, as well as a criticism of human incompetence. His first work, a mystery called Rosaura a las diez (1955), was a Kraft award winner and a bestseller. In 1964, it was translated into English as Rosa at Ten O'Clock. Other famous works of his include Los expedientes (1957), Ceremonia Secreta (1960), El cuarto de la noche (1962), and Falsificaciones (1966).
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He is less known as an essayist, but he also cultivated this genre with his República de Trapalanda (1989), a late work, in which he takes on Ezequiel Martínez -
Tomás Rebord
TOMÁS REBORD nació en el barrio porteño de Almagro en 1993. Se recibió de abogado en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Creó y protagonizó los exitosos ciclos videorradiales Caricias significativas, MAGA y El método Rebord. Actualmente, conduce el ciclo Hay algo ahí, por Blender. Además, recorre el país con su unipersonal Rebord dice cosas, de contenido variable. En 2024 publicó su primera novela, Comentarios al Náucrato.
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Mark McShane
Mark McShane [b.1930 - 2013] was an Australian author of satire, suspense novels, and crime fiction. Born in Sydney to a family with Gypsy roots, he traveled the world for the first three decades of his life. In 1960, he settled on the island of Mallorca, in the Mediterranean, and decided to write fiction.
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His first novel, The Straight and the Crooked, appeared that year but it was his third effort, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, for which he is best known. The story of a strange pair of kidnappers it was made into a well regarded film in 1964 and has been adapted as an opera. His most well known characters are the eccentric Detective Sergeant Norman Pink, and Appleton Porter, an unlikely spy whose often comic adventures McShane chronicled under -
Sergio S. Olguín
Sergio Olguín nació en Buenos Aires en 1967 y estudió Letras en la universidad de esa ciudad. Trabaja como periodista desde 1984. Fundó la revista V de Vian, y fue cofundador y el primer director de la revista de cine El Amante. Ha colaborado en los diarios Página/12, La Nación y El País (Montevideo). Es jefe de redacción de la revista Lamujerdemivida y responsable de cultura del diario Crítica de la Argentina. Editó, entre otras, las antologías Los mejores cuentos argentinos (1999), La selección argentina (2000), Cross a la mandíbula (2000)y Escritos con sangre (2003). En 1998 publicó el libro de cuentos Las griegas (Vian Ediciones) y en 2002 su primera novela, Lanús, reeditada en España en 2008 (Andanzas 647). Le siguieron Filo (2003, Tus
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Marcos Aramburu
Marcos Aramburu nació en enero de 1994 y creció en el barrio bonaerense de Villa Adelina. Es locutor, guionista y un psiconauta aficionado. Hizo contenido sobre drogas para Vice y para Gelatina. Conduce un programa en Nacional Rock y acompaña en la radio a Elizabeth Vernaci. Tanto su trabajo en los medios, como sus viajes, o también este libro, tienen un objetivo en común: contar historias, compartir relatos. Su único consumo problemático es el azúcar. Ama a Maradona.
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Galsan Tschinag
Galsan Tschinag (Чинаагийн Галсан), born Irgit Shynykbai-oglu Dshurukuwaa (*26 December 1944 in Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia) is a Mongolian writer of novels, poems, and essays in the German language, though he hails from a Tuvan background. He is also often described as a Shaman, and is also a teacher and an actor.
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Born in the upper Altai Mountains in western Mongolia, the youngest son of a Tuvan shaman, Galsan majored in German studies at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, East Germany (1962-1968). He did his thesis work under Erwin Strittmatter, and upon graduation began to work as a German teacher at the National University of Mongolia. In 1976 his teaching license was revoked because of his "political untrustworthiness". He continue -
Elsa Bornemann
Elsa Isabel Bornemann was an Argentine author. She wrote stories, songs, novels and theater pieces for children and young adults.
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Elsa Bornemann nació el 20 de febrero de 1952 en el barrio porteño de Parque Patricios. Maestra Normal Nacional, obtuvo su título en el Normal № 11 Ricardo Levene. Se recibió de Licenciada en Letras en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, se doctoró y obtuvo varios diplomas de estudio en medicina y en idioma inglés, alemán, italiano, latín, griego clásico y hebreo. El 25 de mayo de 2013, la editorial Alfaguara infantil informó por las redes sociales su fallecimiento.
Durante la última dictadura militar que gobernó Argentina, autodenominada Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, -
Laia Soler
Nací en Lleida, me descubrí en Barcelona y dejé una parte de mí en Islandia. Enamorada de esa tierra en la que desvían carreteras para no molestar a los elfos, de Peter Pan y del chocolate.
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Con ocho años supe que quería ser escritora y con veintidós, justo al terminar la carrera, que no quería dedicarme al periodismo. Ahora vivo rodeada de libros: en el trabajo, en casa y, por supuesto, en mi cabeza.
Mi primer libro publicado, "Los días que nos separan", fue ganador del I Premio La Caixa / Plataforma Neo. También he publicado "Heima es hogar en islandés" (Plataforma Neo) y "Nosotros después de las doce" (Puck). -
Raúl González Tuñón
Raúl González Tuñón (29 March 1905 – 14 August 1974) was an Argentine poet and writer from Buenos Aires. He was one of the first poets to combine aesthetic vanguard with social vanguard. Later he focused on revolutionary poetry. Between his most notable works are «El violín del diablo», «La calle del agujero en la media», «La rosa blindada» and «La muerte en Madrid».
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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.
He died in 1917 in a hotel in Palermo, Sicily, while working as correspondent for the Argentine weekly magazine Caras y Caretas. -
Juan Manuel Abal Medina
Juan Manuel Abal Medina was an Argentine journalist and politician who served as Secretary General of the Peronist Movement between 1972 and 1974. He later became a prominent lawyer in Mexico.
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Uki Goñi
Uki Goñi is an Argentine author, best known for his ground-breaking research into the roles played by the Vatican, Swiss authorities and the government of Argentina in organizing escape routes for Nazi criminals and collaborators.
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He has participated in countless documentaries by the BBC, Discovery Channel, History Channel, PBS and other media in the US and Europe.
He writes for The Guardian and The New York Review of Books. He has also written Op-Eds for the New York Times.
During Argentina's 1976-83 dictatorship he worked as a journalist at the Buenos Aires Herald, the only newspaper in Argentina to report on the "disappearance" of thousands of young people kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the military.
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Eva Perón
María Eva Duarte de Perón, también conocida como Eva Perón o Evita, fue una política argentina. Se casó con Juan Domingo Perón en 1945 y tras la asunción de este como Presidente de la Nación Argentina el año siguiente, Duarte se convirtió en primera dama.
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Daniel Balmaceda
Es periodista graduado en la Universidad Católica Argentina y fue editor de las revistas Noticias, El Gráfico, Newsweek, Aire Libre, La Primera y el suplemento escolar Cole Club.
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Es miembro titular y vitalicio de la Sociedad Argentina de Historiadores y miembro de la Unión de Cóndores de las Américas. Presidió la Fundación Cristóbal Colón entre los años 1989 y 1993. Es columnista de historia argentina en lanacion.com y en diversos medios escritos y radiales del país.
Es autor de varios los libros, entre otros, Espadas y Corazones, Romances turbulentos de la historia argentina, Historias de corceles y de acero, Biografía no autorizada de 1910 e Historias de las palabras. -
D. Hunter
D. Hunter labels himself "an ageing chav". He's the author of Chav Solidarity , a searing read that centres around his childhood of growing up underclass, drug abuse, prostitution and how the liberal left absolutely fails in its aims.
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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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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner es una política y abogada argentina nacida en la ciudad de La Plata. Fue Presidenta de la Nación Argentina desde el 10 de diciembre de 2007 hasta el 9 de diciembre de 2015. Actualmente es vicepresidenta de la Nación bajo la presidencia de Alberto Fernández (sin vínculo de sangre) y por lo tanto presidante del Senado. Fue esposa del también presidente Néstor Kirchner.
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Pablo Roy Leguísamo
Pablo Roy Leguísamo es un reconocido autor y guionista con una extensa trayectoria en cine y televisión. Se desarrolla en los géneros de young adult, ficción histórica, ciencia ficción, y thriller, creando universos ricos y complejos que exploran temas profundos y variados. A través de su narrativa, Leguísamo invita a sus lectores a embarcarse en viajes que desafían su percepción del mundo y los empujan a reflexionar sobre la condición humana.
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Su trabajo ha capturado la atención de lectores y espectadores a través de obras destacadas como "Hasta la final," "Los Pérez viajan a Marte," "Morir por el Che," y "De Leche, Dulce." Entre sus logros se incluye el premio Banda Dibujada por su novela gráfica "Tupamaros, la fuga," así como el reconocim -
Verónica Murguía
Verónica Murguía nació en México DF en 1960 y estudió Historia en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Vive y trabaja como escritora, traductora y periodista en el Distrito Federal. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
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Ha publicado una docena de libros para niños, tres novelas: Auliya, El fuego verde y Ladridos y conjuros (dos de las cuales han sido traducidas al alemán) y un libro de cuentos. Este libro, titulado El ángel de Nicolás, ha sido traducido al italiano.
Desde 1999 escribe una columna quincenal para el suplemento cultural del periódico La Jornada.
En 2013 se alzó con el Premio de Literatura Juvenil Gran Angular por su novela Loba, una historia innnovadora en el género fantástico en la que se recrea un mund -
José Alberto Oliveira
Médico cardiologista, José Alberto Oliveira nasceu em 1952 em Souto da Casa, Fundão, e vive atualmente em Lisboa. Publicou o seu primeiro livro de poemas em 1992, na Assírio & Alvim, e surpreendeu pelo seu lirismo discreto e pela diversidade temática de aproximação a aspetos do quotidiano, onde além disso são notórias as influências da poesia inglesa. Traduziu Auden, Russell Edson, Frank O’Hara e Charles Simic, entre outros. Foi um dos principais colaboradores do livro «Rosa do Mundo — 2001 poemas para o futuro».
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Roberto Fernández Retamar
Roberto Fernández Retamar was a poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also serves on the Council of State of Cuba. An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he has remained a central figure in Cuba since the 1959 Revolution. Fernández has also written over a dozen major collections of verse and founded the Casa de las Americas cultural magazine.
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Professor Joao Cesar Castro de Rocha, at the University of Manchester has described Retamar as "one of the most distinguished Latin American intellectuals of the twentieth century." In 1989, he was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and most important awa