Sergio Chejfec
Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. From 1990 to 2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York University.
Chejfec has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. His works include Lenta biografía (1990), Los planetas (1999), Boca de lobo (2000), Los incompletos (2004), Baroni: un viaje (2007), Mis dos mundos (2008), and La experiencia dramática (2012). He has been compared to Juan José Saer, which he finds flattering but not accurate. His novels usually feature a slow-paced narration that interweaves a minimal plot wi
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His translation of The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He is also the translator of Pelé's autobiography, and of work by novelists José Luís Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, María Dueñas, José Saramago, Eduardo Halfon, Gonçalo M. Tavares and others.
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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in 1904 in Parral, Chile, was a poet, diplomat, and politician, widely considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. From an early age, he showed a deep passion for poetry, publishing his first works as a teenager. He adopted the pen name Pablo Neruda to avoid disapproval from his father, who discouraged his literary ambitions. His breakthrough came with Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, 1924), a collection of deeply emotional and sensual poetry that gained international recognition and remains one of his most celebrated works.
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Juan 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 -
Benito Pérez Galdós
People know Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós especially for his Episodios Nacionales (1873-1912), a series of 46 historical novels.
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Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th century Spain.
Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and galdosistas (Galdós researchers) considered him Spain's equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. As recently as 1950, few of his works were available translated to English, although he has slow -
Ida Vitale
Ida Vitale (Montevideo, 2 de noviembre de 1923) es una poeta, traductora, ensayista, profesora y crítica literaria uruguaya. Entre los premios que ha recibido destacan en 2015 el Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana, en 2016 el Premio Internacional de Poesía Federico García Lorca y en 2018 el Premio Cervantes.
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Considerada integrante de la Generación del 45 con otros escritores uruguayos como Mario Benedetti, Juan Carlos Onetti, Carlos Maggi o Idea Vilariño, es también madre del economista Claudio Rama Vitale, y cuarta generación de emigrantes italianos en Uruguay, donde se formó en una familia culta y cosmopolita. Lectora preferente de obras históricas, su descubrimiento de dos poetas uruguayas de entresiglos, Delmira Agustini y, en e -
Vicente Huidobro
Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism"), which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.
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Huidobro was born into a wealthy family in Santiago. After spending his first years in Europe, he enrolled in a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago where he was expelled for using a ring, which he claimed, was for marriage. He studied literature at the University of Chile and published "Ecos del alma" ( Soul's Echoes ) in 1911, a work with modernist tendencies. The following year he married, and started to edit the journal "Musa Joven" ( Young Muse ), where part of his -
Yōko Tawada
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German.
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Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts—Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition.
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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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Ágota Kristóf
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
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Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio -
Daniel Hahn
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His translation of The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He is also the translator of Pelé's autobiography, and of work by novelists José Luís Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, María Dueñas, José Saramago, Eduardo Halfon, Gonçalo M. Tavares and others.
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Juan José Saer
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Lucía Lijtmaer
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José Eustasio Rivera
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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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Claudia Piñeiro
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Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree गीताजंली क्ष्री (She was known as Geentanjali Pandey, and she took her mother's first name Shree as her last name) (born 1957) is a Hindi novelist and short story writer based in New Delhi, India. She is the author of several short stories and three novels. Mai was short listed for the Crossword Book Award in 2001. She has also written a critical work on Premchand.
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Her first story, Bel Patra (1987) was published in the literary magazine Hans and was followed by a collection of short stories Anugoonj (1991)
The English translation of her novel Mai catapulted her into fame. The novel is about three generations of women and the men around them, in a North Indian middle-class family. Mai is translated into Serbian, Korean and Ge -
Vigdis Hjorth
Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.
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In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.
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José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco Berny fue un poeta y ensayista mexicano nacido en Ciudad de México en 1939.
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Empezó a brillar desde muy joven en el panorama cultural mexicano, gracias a su dominio de las formas clásicas y modernas y al enfoque universal de su poesía.
Además de poeta y prosista se ha consagrado también como eximio traductor, trabajando como director y editor de colecciones bibliográficas y diversas publicaciones y suplementos culturales. Ha sido docente universitario e investigador al servicio de entidades gubernamentales.
Entre sus galardones se cuentan: Premio Nacional de Poesía, Premio Nacional de Periodismo Literario, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Premio Magda Donato, Premio José Asunción Silva en 1996,el Premio Octavio Paz en el año 2003 -
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Alejandro Zambra
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Herbert Clyde Lewis
Herbert Clyde Lewis was born in New York City in 1909. After working as a reporter in Shanghai, China, he returned to the US in 1933 and began writing fiction while working as a reporter for the New York Journal.
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In 1937, he published his first novel, Gentleman Overboard, a black comedy about a Wall Street banker who falls overboard while travelling on a freighter in the South Pacific and drowns. Time magazine's reviewer wrote of the book, "His hair-raising little tour de force is the more effective for being so quietly, matter-of-factly written."
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Ana Paula Maia
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During her adolescence she player at a punk rock band and studied piano. As a scriptwriter she took part in the script of the short film O entregador de pizza (2001), and along with Mauro Santa Cecilia and Ricardo Petraglia, she wrote the theatrical monologue O rei dos escombros assembled in 2003 by the Moacyr Chaves firm. She published her first novel under the title O habitante das falhas subterrâneas in 2003.
She is the author of the trilogy A saga dos brutos, started by the short novel Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos y O trabalho sujo dos outros —published in one volume— and concluded by the novel Carvão animal.
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Juan Sánchez Peláez
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Renato Cisneros
Nació en Lima en 1976. Es periodista y escritor. Son suyos los poemarios: Ritual de los prójimos (1998), Máquina fantasma (2001) y Nuevos poemas italianos (2007). Ha publicado además las novelas Nunca confíes en mí (Alfaguara, 2011), Raro (Alfaguara, 2012), que contó con ilustraciones de Alfonso Vargas; y muy recientemente La distancia que nos separa (Ed.Planeta), que se convirtió en el título más vendido de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Lima 2015 Entre 2007 y 2010 administró el conocido blog «Busco Novia». Por once años escribió crónicas para el diario El Comercio. Actualmente (setiembre 2015) firma columnas semanales en La República y colabora con programas en el Grupo RPP. Desde agosto de este año radica en Madrid.
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Cynthia Rimsky
Cynhia Rimsky nació en Santiago de Chile, en 1962. Ha publicado Poste restante, La novela de otro, Los Perplejos, Ramal, Fui, El futuro es un lugar extraño, En obra, La revolución a dedo. Escribe crónicas y columnas para diversas revistas y da clases en la UNA. Vive en Argentina desde 2012.
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Daniel Saldaña París
DANIEL SALDAÑA PARÍS (Ciudad de México, 1984) escribe narrativa y poesía. Es autor del libro de poemas La máquina autobiográfica (Bonobos Editores, 2012) y de la novela En medio de extrañas víctimas (Sexto Piso, 2013). Ha sido becario del FONCA en los programas Jóvenes Creadores (2006-2007) y Residencias Artísticas (2012), así como de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (2007-2009). En 2012 antologó y prologó Doce en punto. Poesía chilena reciente y Un nuevo modo. Antología de narrativa mexicana actual, ambos publicados por la UNAM. En 2014 fue escritor en residencia en Ledig House-OMI International Arts Center (Nueva York).
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Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Norman Erikson Pasaribu was born in Jakarta in 1990. His first short story collection Hanya Kamu yang Tahu Berapa Lama Lagi Aku Harus Menunggu (Only You Know How Much Longer I Should Wait) was shortlisted for the 2014 Khatulistiwa Literary Award for Prose. His debut poetry collection Sergius Mencari Bacchus (Sergius Seeks Bacchus) won the 2015 Jakarta Arts Council Poetry Competition, was shortlisted for the 2016 Khatulistiwa Literary Award for Poetry and named by Tempo as one of the best poetry collections of that year.
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Jeferson Tenório
Jeferson Tenório was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1977. Based in Porto Alegre, he is a doctoral student in Literary Theory at PUCRS and a lecturer in literature.
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Belén López Peiró
Belén López Peiró (1992) estudió Periodismo y Ciencias de la Comunicación en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Actualmente coordina talleres de escritura de no ficción con perspectiva de género. Por qué volvías cada verano es su primera novela publicada. Una historia que narra, a partir de múltiples voces, el abuso que sufrió por parte de un familiar y que se convirtió en un fenómeno literario, social y político en su país.
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Gabriel Payares
Escritor venezolano. Licenciado en Letras, Magíster en Literatura Latinoamericana y Magíster en Escritura Creativa. Ha recibido numerosos galardones nacionales como cuentista, entre los que destacan el Concurso de Autores Inéditos de Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana (2008), el 66º Concurso de Cuentos de El Nacional (2011) y Premio Nacional de Literatura Rafael María Baralt (2014). También recibió una primera mención en el XIII Concurso Iberoamericano de Cuento Julio Cortázar (La Habana, 2014) y una mención especial en el Concurso Internacional de Cuento Abelardo Castillo (Buenos Aires, 2021). Estuvo entre los autores invitados al International Writer's Workshop de la Hong Kong Baptist University en 2020. Sus cuentos han sido traducidos
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Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza
[Caracas, 1962]. Poeta, ensayista, profesor e investigador universitario. Ha publicado en Caracas los libros de poesía Al margen de las hojas [1991]; De espaldas al río [1999]; Pasado en limpio [2006] y Cuidados intensivos [2014]. Publicó en México Principios de contabilidad [2000] y en Madrid El cangrejo ermitaño. Antología poética [2020]. Entre sus libros de ensayos, investigación literaria y antologías publicadas en Venezuela, se cuentan Lecturas desplazadas. Encuentros hispanoamericanos con Cervantes y Góngora [2009]; Itinerarios de la ciudad en la poesía venezolana. Una metáfora del cambio [2010] y Formas en fuga. Antología poética de Juan Calzadilla [2011]. Las palabras necesarias. Muestra antológica de poesía venezolana del siglo XX
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Juan Sánchez Peláez
Juan Sánchez Peláez was a Venezuelan poet and National Prize winner for Literature in 1975. Attended university in Santiago, Chile where he befriended the poets of the surrealist group Mandrágora. He published his first poems in their magazine and it was through this encounter that his lifelong interest in surrealism began. Upon returning to Caracas, he published Elena y los elementos in 1951. Elena y los elementos had a profound effect on Venezuelan poetry, outlining a distinctly Venezuelan form of surrealism that influenced the generation of avant-garde poets who emerged in the 1960s. This book was published in a fiftieth anniversary edition by Monte Ávila Editores after he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universida
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