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Beatriz Sarlo

Beatriz Sarlo was an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was also founding editor of the cultural journal Punto de Vista ("Point of View"). She became an Order of Cultural Merit laureate in 2009.

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Cristina Peri Rossi

Uruguayan novelist, poet, and author of short stories.

Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay but was exiled in 1972, and moved to Spain, where she became a citizen in 1975. As of 2005[update] she lives in Barcelona, where she continues to write fiction and works as a journalist. She studied at the University of the Republic.

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Annie Ernaux

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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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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Leila Guerriero

Leila Guerriero is an Argentinian journalist. She began her career in 1991, as an editor with the magazine Página/30, part of the Argentine newspaper Página/12. Since then her texts have appeared in various publications across Latin America and Europe: La Nación and Rolling Stone, in Argentina; El País, Altaïr and Jot Down, in Spain; Piauí, in Brazil; Leopard, in Mexico; L’Internazionale, in Italy, among others. She is the author of many books, including Los suicidas del fin del mundo (Tusquets, 2004); Frutos extraños (2009, Aguilar, Alfaguara); Una historia sencilla (2013, Anagram); and La Otra Guerra (2021, Anagram). She has received the CEMEX + FNPI New Journalism Award, González-Ruano Prize, Blue Metropolis Grand Prix and Manuel Vázquez

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Alejandro Zambra

Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents, Multiple Choice, Not to Read, Chilean Poet and Childish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s, among other places.

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Idea Vilariño

Idea Vilariño (Montevideo, 1920-2009) fue una poeta, ensayista y crítica literaria uruguaya perteneciente al grupo de escritores denominado Generación del 45. Dentro de sus facetas menos conocidas se encuentran la de traductora, compositora y docente.

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).

Also known as an essayist and literary critic, she was a member of the writers’ group called the Generation of 45, to which Mario Benedetti, 88, also belonged and who is currently in a Montevideo hospital in critical condition.

Idea Vilariño worked as a high-school literature teacher from 1

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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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María Negroni

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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Luna Miguel

Leo, escribo y edito. Trabajo en Penguin Random House. Mis últimos libros son 'Leer mata' e 'Incensurable'.

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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.”

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Nona Fernández

Patricia Paola Fernández Silanes (Santiago, 1971), más conocida como Nona Fernández, es una actriz, escritora, guionista y feminista chilena.
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.
Sus cuentos aparecieron primero en diversas antologías de concursos, y su primer libro de relatos salió a luz el año 2000: El cielo. Dos años más tarde publicó su premiada novela Mapocho.

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Fernanda Trías

Fernanda Trías (Montevideo, 12 de octubre de 1976) es una escritora uruguaya. Es profesora de inglés y traductora certificada.

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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Mauro Libertella

Writer and journalist born in México in 1983. After living in Buenos Aires all his life he is considered an Argentine author.

He is the son of writers Héctor Libertella and Tamara Kamenszain.

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Jazmina Barrera

Jazmina Barrera (Ciudad de México, 1988) fue becaria de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas y beneficiaria de las residencias de la Casa Estudio Cien Años de Soledad. Fue becaria del programa de Jóvenes Creadores del Fonca.

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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Alejandra Kamiya

Alejandra Kamiya (Buenos Aires, 13 de febrero de 1966) es una escritora argentina. De ascendencia japonesa, su obra, compuesta por tres libros de cuentos, aúna las culturas argentina y japonesa, y aborda las temáticas de los vínculos afectivos, la vida cotidiana y la muerte.

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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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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Juana Manso

Juana Paula Manso was an Argentine writer, translator, journalist, teacher and feminist who advocated for better educational reform and better educational accessibility for women.

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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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Yuliana Ortiz Ruano

Yuliana Ortiz Ruano (Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 1992) vive actualmente en Guayaquil, es licenciada en Literatura y Artes y DJ de música afro del Pacífico.

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.

Ha publicado los libros de poesía Sovoz (2016), Canciones desde el fin del mundo (Libero, 2021) y Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea (2021). Fiebre de carnaval es su primera novela.

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Hồ Xuân Hương

Hồ Xuân Hương (胡春香; 1772–1822) was a Vietnamese poet born at the end of the Lê Dynasty. She grew up in an era of political and social turmoil – the time of the Tây Sơn rebellion and a three-decade civil war that led to Nguyễn Ánh seizing power as Emperor Gia Long and starting the Nguyen Dynasty. She wrote poetry using Chữ Nôm (Southern Script), which adapts Chinese characters for writing demotic Vietnamese. She is considered to be one of Vietnam's greatest classical poet. Xuân Diệu, a prominent modern poet, dubbed her "The Queen of Nôm poetry".

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Toril Moi

Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English, Philosophy and Theatre Studies at Duke University. Moi is also the Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke. She attended University of Bergen. Previously she held positions as a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and as Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Bergen, Norway. She lived in Oxford, United Kingdom from 1979 to 1989. Currently she lives in North Carolina. She works on feminist theory and women's writing; on the intersections of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; on "finding ways of reading literature with philosophy and philosophy with literature without reducing t

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Elicura Chihuailaf

Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpan (Quechurehue o Quechurewe, provincia de Cautín, Chile, 1952) es un escritor, poeta y oralitor mapuche, considerado uno de los más connotados poetas del Chile actual. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile en 2020.

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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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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Diego Maquieira

"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.

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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Mansur al-Hallaj

Mansur al-Hallaj (Arabic: ابو المغيث الحسين بن منصور الحلاج‎ Abū 'l-Muġīṭ Al-Ḥusayn bin Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ; Persian: منصور حلاج‎ Mansūr-e Ḥallāj) (c. 858 – March 26, 922) (Hijri c. 244 AH – 309 AH) was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism, who wrote exclusively in Arabic. He is most famous for his poetry, accusation of heresy and for his execution at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation.

Arabic

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Aline Motta

Aline Motta nasceu em Niterói (RJ), em 1974, e mora em São Paulo. Combina diferentes técnicas e práticas artísticas em seu trabalho, como fotografia, vídeo, instalação, performance e colagem. De modo crítico, suas obras reconfiguram memórias, em especial as afro-atlânticas, e constroem novas narrativas que invocam uma ideia não linear do tempo.

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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".

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.

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