Saskia Niño de Rivera
Saskia Niño de Rivera (Ciudad de México, 30 de julio de 1987) es activista, creadora de contenido, cofundadora y vocera de la organización Reinserta. Es autora de varios libros relacionados con personas privadas de la libertad en el sistema penitenciario mexicano.
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Eufrosina Cruz nació en 1979 en Santa María Quiegolani, en la sierra zapoteca de Oaxaca. A los 12 años decidió irse de su pueblo al enterarse de que la iban a casar. Tras estudiar contaduría, volvió a Quiegolani para competir por la presidencia municipal, la cual ganó. Sin embargo, no se le otorgó el derecho a gobernar debido a que el sistema de usos y costumbres que regía en su localidad no permitía que las mujeres votaran y fueran votadas. Buscó entonces una curul en el Congreso local y la obtuvo. Como presidenta del Congreso oaxaqueño, consiguió modificar la Constitución de la entidad para que la injusticia que ella vivió no la sufrieran otras mujeres. Un par de años después, y ya desde el Congreso de la Unión, logró hacer lo mismo con l
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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.
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He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr -
Brian L. Weiss
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from "the space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss's family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.
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A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.
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Lydia Cacho
Lydia Cacho was born in Mexico City in 1963 to a French mother and a Mexican father. She settled in Cancún, Mexico in 1985, where she began working at the newspaper Novedades de Cancún. Cacho speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese and English.
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She is an award-winning Mexican journalist, author, feminist, and human rights activist who has published hundreds of news articles, a poetry book, a novel, collections of essays on human rights and other nonfiction works. She has made it her life’s work to investigate sexual slavery. For her work she has been kidnapped, raped, tortured and been the target of death threats.
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Anabel Hernández
Anabel Hernández is one of Mexico’s leading investigative journalists. She has worked on national dailies, including Reforma, Milenio, El Universal and its investigative supplement, La Revista, where the work on the alleged collusion of government officials and drug lords won her the Golden Pen of Freedom award, presented by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
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Ricardo Raphael
Licenciado en Derecho por la UNAM. Maestro en ciencias políticas por el Instituto de Estudios Políticos de París, Francia (Sciences Po). Maestría en Administración Pública por la Escuela Nacional de Administración (ENA) de la República Francesa. Estudios Doctorales en Economía Política y Políticas Comparadas por la Escuela para Graduados de Claremont, California, EU.
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Fue Secretario General de Democracia Social, Partido Político Nacional y representante ante el Consejo General del IFE del partido México Posible. También fue Coordinador de la Comisión Ciudadana contra la Discriminación, fue defensor de la audiencia de canal 11 y subdirector de opinión del periódico El Universal.
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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican writer and one of the best-known novelists and essayists of the 20th century in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.
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Fuentes was born in Panama City, Panama; his parents were Mexican. Due to his father being a diplomat, during his childhood he lived in Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. In his adolescence, he returned to Mexico, where he lived until 1965. He was married to film star Rita Macedo from 1959 till 1973, although he was an habitual philanderer and allegedly, his affairs - which he claimed include film actresses such as Jeanne Moreau and Je -
Han Kang
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
Eloy Moreno
Eloy Moreno Olaria es un escritor español que se ha dado a conocer tras la publicación de su primera novela, titulada El bolígrafo de gel verde.
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Eloy Moreno lives in Castellón and works in the city’s town hall. He decided to start writing after reading a book that had won an important prize and setting himself the challenge of writing something much better. When his novel was finished, he decided not to send it to a publisher. Confident in the quality of the novel, he decided to win himself a place in bookshops on his own. His success became an Internet phenomenon.
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Alma Delia Murillo
Autora de los libros «Cuentos de maldad (y uno que otro maldito)» (editorial Alfaguara, 2020), «El niño que fuimos” (editorial Alfaguara, 2018), «Las noches habitadas” (editorial Planeta, 2015); y del libro de cuentos «Damas de Caza” (editorial Plaza y Valdés, 2011). Coautora en “Tiembla” (editorial Almadía, 2018).
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Escribe una columna sabatina en este espacio titulada Posmodernos y Jodidos, una colaboración quincenal en la sección editorial del periódico Reforma, y otras colaboraciones sobre diversos tópicos culturales para revistas como Milenio, Confabulario de El Universal, SoHo, Univision Trends, El Malpensante (Colombia) y otros.
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Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Houston and was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2020.
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Malala Yousafzai
Girls education activist and youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.
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Mark Wolynn
Director of The Family Constellation Institute, The Inherited Trauma Institute and The Hellinger Institute of Northern California, Mark is North America’s leader in Inherited Family Trauma. A sought-after lecturer, he leads workshops at hospitals, clinics, conferences, and teaching centers around the world. He has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the Western Psychiatric Institute, Kripalu, The New York Open Center, The Omega Institute, The California Institute of Integral Studies. His book IT DIDN’T START WITH YOU: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Viking/Penguin) is the winner of the 2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award in psychology. Mark specializes in working with depression, anxiety, obsessive th
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Liliana Blum
Autora de las novelas El extraño caso de Lenny Goleman (Planeta Joven, 2021), Cara de liebre (Seix Barral, 2020), El monstruo pentápodo (Bordes, 2019; Tusquets, 2017; Bordes, 2019), Pandora (Maxi 2020; Tusquets, 2015), y Residuos de espanto (Ficticia, 2013), así como de los libros de cuentos Un descuido cósmico (Tusquets, 2024) Todas hemos perdido algo (Tusquets, 2020), Tristeza de los cítricos (Páginas de Espuma, 2019), No me pases de largo (Literal Publishing, 2013), Yo sé cuando expira la leche (IMAC Durango, 2011), El libro perdido de Heinrich Böll (Editorial Jus, 2008), The curse of Eve and other stories (Host Publications, 2008), Vidas de catálogo (Tierra Adentro, 2007), ¿En qué se nos fue la mañana?(ITCA, 2007), y La maldición de Eva
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Dahlia de la Cerda
Nació, creció y vive actualmente en la Ciudad de Aguascalientes. Estudió la licenciatura en Filosofía. Ha sido empleada de un call-center, un bar y una fábrica de dulces. Ha trabajado como editora de noticias internacionales y como vendedora de Avón, rosas negras en la calle y de ropa de segunda en un tianguis. En 2009 ganó el certamen literario Letras de la Memoria, convocado por el Centro Cultural Los Arquitos. En 2015 fue becaria del Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico de Aguascalientes (PECDA). Fue beneficiaria del Programa Jóvenes Creadores del Fonca en las emisiones 2016 y 2018. Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala 2019. Ha participado en las antologías Mexicanas. Trece narrativas contemporáneas
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Eufrosina Cruz
Eufrosina Cruz nació en 1979 en Santa María Quiegolani, en la sierra zapoteca de Oaxaca. A los 12 años decidió irse de su pueblo al enterarse de que la iban a casar. Tras estudiar contaduría, volvió a Quiegolani para competir por la presidencia municipal, la cual ganó. Sin embargo, no se le otorgó el derecho a gobernar debido a que el sistema de usos y costumbres que regía en su localidad no permitía que las mujeres votaran y fueran votadas. Buscó entonces una curul en el Congreso local y la obtuvo. Como presidenta del Congreso oaxaqueño, consiguió modificar la Constitución de la entidad para que la injusticia que ella vivió no la sufrieran otras mujeres. Un par de años después, y ya desde el Congreso de la Unión, logró hacer lo mismo con l
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