Tamara Kamenszain
Tamara Kamenszain (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1947-Ibídem; 2021) fue una poeta y ensayista argentina. Estudió filosofía, trabajó desde muy joven en periodismo para después dedicarse a la enseñanza de la literatura. Pertenece, junto con Arturo Carrera y Néstor Perlongher, a la generación de poetas de los setenta llamados neobarrocos. Sus ensayos sobre poesía argentina y latinoamericana son material de estudio en universidades argentinas y del exterior. Sus libros de poesía fueron total o parcialmente traducidos a diversas lenguas y es considerada una de las voces que influyeron sobre las nuevas generaciones de poetas.
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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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Vilariño was one of the outstanding figures of Uruguayan poetry, with her lyric creations collected in works such as “La Suplicante” (The Supplicant), “Poemas de Amor” (Love Poems) and “Nocturnos” (Nocturnes).
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María Negroni is an Argentine poet, essayist, novelist and translator. As a poet she has published De tanto desolar (1985), La jaula bajo el trapo (1991), El viaje de la noche (1994), Diario Extranjero (2001), La ineptitud (2002) and Islandia (1994; PEN American Center Prize for the Best Poetry Book of the Year in translation, 2001). She has also published the book of essays Ciudad gótica (1994) the novels El sueño de Ursula (1998)and La anunciación (2007) and a book-object in collaboration with the Argentine visual artist Jorge Macchi, Buenos Aires Tour (2004). Much of her work has been translated into English and French. A Guggenheim fellow, she has also received fellowships from the Rockefeller foundation, the Octavio Paz foundation, The
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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.” -
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Patricia Paola Fernández Silanes (Santiago, 1971), más conocida como Nona Fernández, es una actriz, escritora, guionista y feminista chilena.
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Hija única de madre soltera, Nona Fernández creció en un barrio de avenida Matta cercano al mercado persa Bíobío. Como actriz, fundó la compañía Merri Melodys, participó en montajes de muchas obras teatrales y ganó como mejor actriz un concurso del Centro Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura.
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Fernanda Trías is a Uruguayan writer. She was born in Montevideo in 1976. She is the author of three novels and two short story collections. In 2004 she won a Unesco scholarship to write in Camac, an artists’ residence in Marnay-sur-Seine. She lived for five years in the medieval village of Provins and a few months in London. She spent one year in Berlin and two years in Buenos Aires. Trías earned a Master’s degree in creative writing from New York University and was disciple of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero. She integrated anthologies of new narrative in Colombia, the United States, Uruguay, Peru, Germany (Neu -
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Estudió la maestría en Escritura Creativa en Español en NYU con el apoyo de la beca Fullbright. Sus textos han sido publicados en revistas como The Paris Review, El País, Words Without Borders, Malpensante, Electric Literature y The New York Times, entre otras. Es autora de Cuerpo extraño, Cuaderno de faros, Linea nigra, Los nombres de los animales y Punto de Cruz. Su libro de ensayos Cuerpo extraño / Foreign Body ganó el premio Latin American Voices 2013. Linea nigra fue finalista del premio CANIEM al libro del año, -
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Recibió, entre otros, los premios Universidad Católica Argentina-SUTERH (2007), Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires (2008), Max Aub (2010), Horacio Quiroga (2012) y Unicaja (2014). En 2024, recibió un Premio Konex por su labor como cuentista. -
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Varios de sus textos han sido publicados en revistas y antologías digitales e impresas de México, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Estados Unidos, España y Portugal.
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Su obra es principalmente bilingüe, en mapudungun y español. Su trabajo ha sido ampliamente premiado y reconocido. El carácter fundacional de su obra abrió las puertas para la eclosión de la poesía mapuche en clave moderna, escrita y bilingüe. De profesión obstetra y dedicado desde 1977 a la labor literaria y cultural, es considerado el más importante escritor y poeta mapuche. Su labor ha sido reconocida tanto en Chile como en el extranjero, por tender puentes interculturales entre los pueblos -
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"Ese es mi espíritu: tomar distancia con todo lo que está cerca del poder. El poder es el enemigo número uno de la creación. Y los creadores deben estar lo más lejos posible de círculos oficiales. Mi camino no va por ahí. Yo no voy a mejorar ni a empeorar mis poemas ni mi situación económica a través de los círculos oficiales. No tengo intereses creados, tengo interés en crear...". Diego Maquieira nació en Santiago de Chile, en 1951. Hijo de padre diplomático y de una socialitè chilena. Vivió su infancia en Nueva York, inmerso en la cultura norteamericana y el aprendizaje del inglés. Por el trabajo de su padre, la vida de Diego Maquieira transcurrió moviéndose de un lugar a otro: La Paz, Lima, Ciudad de México, Quito, Santiago. El constante
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Nelson Estupiñán Bass
Ecuadorian novelist and poet that was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1988, Nelson Estupiñán Bass (1912 -2002) was also one of the leading voices of the Afro-Latin literary movement, being of African heritage and born into the Afro-Ecuadorian coastal province of Esmeraldas. Trained in accounting, while working in that field, he developed his writing career by publishing a series of literary journals in his community.
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In 1950, at the age of 38, Bass gained international renown with the publication of his novel, When the Guayacans Were in Bloom, which related the how Afro-Ecuadorians were exploited by both conservative and liberal factions during Ecuador’s 1895 Liberal Revolution. The book has since been translated into English, French, and R -
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Aline Motta
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María Emilia Cornejo
María Emilia Cornejo (Lima, Perú; 1949 - 1972) was a Peruvian poet, one of the most important of the "Generación del 70".
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She studied literature at the National University of San Marcos in Lima and partecipated at the poetry classes of Hildebrando Pérez Grande and Marco Martos. She is considered the first female writer of erotic poetry in Peru.
María Emilia was a fervent catholic and she followed the precepts of Liberation theology.
Little his known about her later years,
Her collected poems were published in 1994 by his twin sister, Ana María.