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Carmen Lyra

Carmen Lyra, seudónimo de María Isabel Carvajal Quesada (San José, 15 de enero de 1887 - México, 14 de mayo de 1949) fue una escritora, pedagoga y política costarricense. Es considerada una de las escritoras más entrañables y significativas de la literatura costarricense. Se le ha señalado como la fundadora de la narrativa de tendencia realista en Costa Rica. Su obra más conocida es Cuentos de mi tía Panchita, una serie de cuentos infantiles publicados en 1920, una de las obras literarias más importantes de la literatura nacional. Además, escribió obras de teatro, ensayos políticos y las novelas En una silla de ruedas y Las fantasías de Juan Silvestre.

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Mark Twain

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology). His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
Sartre held an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.

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Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the

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Toni Morrison

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. Morrison earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. Morrison became the first black female editor for fiction a

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Laura Esquivel

Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter, and former politician best known for her internationally acclaimed debut novel Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate). Blending magical realism with deep cultural roots, the novel became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States and was adapted into a successful film that received multiple international awards. Originally trained in education and theater, Esquivel began her career writing for children’s television and later moved into cinema and literature, often weaving food, family, and emotion into her stories.
Esquivel’s fiction is known for its lyrical style and its exploration of love, tradition, and identity, frequently drawing on Mexican history and folklore. Her oth

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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.

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

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Juan Rulfo

Juan Perez Rulfo

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

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Federico García Lorca

Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.

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Antonio Santa Ana

Antonio Santa Ana nació en 1963 en Buenos Aires, donde vive actualmente con sus dos hijos. Trabaja desde hace diez años con el Grupo Editorial Norma en Argentina, donde se ocupa de la edición y circulación de las colecciones infantiles y juveniles. Antes de vincularse a Norma trabajó durante diez años en la organización de la Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires y en la editorial Libros del Quirquincho. Miembro de la comisión directiva de la Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la Argentina (ALIJA) y del comité editorial de la Revista latinoamericana de literatura infantil y juvenil que publica Fundalectura (seccional de IBBY), Santa Ana ha sido jurado de importantes concursos literarios y es parte activa de actividades varias en torno

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.

Calderón initiated what has been called the second cycle of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Whereas his predecessor, Lope de Vega, pioneered the dramatic forms and genres of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Calderón polished and perfected them. Whereas Lope's strength lay in the sponteneity and naturalness of his work, Calderón's strength lay in his capacity for poetic beauty, dramatic structure and philosophical depth. Calderón was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays, even long after they debuted. This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: many of his plays rework existing plays or scenes by other dramatists, improving their depth, comp

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Carmen Lyra

Carmen Lyra, seudónimo de María Isabel Carvajal Quesada (San José, 15 de enero de 1887 - México, 14 de mayo de 1949) fue una escritora, pedagoga y política costarricense. Es considerada una de las escritoras más entrañables y significativas de la literatura costarricense. Se le ha señalado como la fundadora de la narrativa de tendencia realista en Costa Rica. Su obra más conocida es Cuentos de mi tía Panchita, una serie de cuentos infantiles publicados en 1920, una de las obras literarias más importantes de la literatura nacional. Además, escribió obras de teatro, ensayos políticos y las novelas En una silla de ruedas y Las fantasías de Juan Silvestre.

Educadora por antonomasia y renovadora de la docencia, fundó y dirigió la Escuela Normal M

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Carlos Luis Fallas

Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja, nació en Alajuela el 21 de enero de 1909. De origen humilde, pudo cursar hasta segundo año de la educación secundaria. A los 16 años se marchó a trabajar en las plantaciones de la United Fruit Company, en la zona atlántica costarricense. Posteriormente, aprendió el oficio de zapatero, labor que le permitió involucrarse con el sector proletario e ingresar al Partido Comunista. Fue Regidor Municipal de San José y diputado, además de Jefe Militar improvisado de los batallones obreros durante la guerra civil de 1948.

Entre sus obras literarias están: Mamita Yunai escrita en 1940, obra que pasó desapercibida hasta que Pablo Neruda se propuso que fuera conocida en el mundo entero. Gentes y Gentecillas, Marcos Ramírez, M

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José de Espronceda

José Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnación de Espronceda y Delgado fue un poeta español de la época del Romanticismo, considerado como el más destacado poeta romántico español.
Nació en Almendralejo en la Provincia de Badajoz en 1808. Estudió en el colegio de San Mateo de Madrid, donde tuvo como profesor a Alberto Lista, a quien siguió en el colegio fundado por el mismo. A los quince años creó con sus amigos Ventura de la Vega, y Patricio de la Escosura una sociedad secreta a la que llamaron los Numantinos (1823-1825), según decían, para vengar la muerte de Rafael del Riego. En 1823 funda junto a otros alumnos de Alberto Lista la academia del Mirto, para continuar con las enseñanzas del clausurado colegio que Lista fundara (colegio libre de San M

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Hermann Hesse

Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.

In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great

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José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today."

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Emily Nagoski

The official bio is:
"Emily Nagoski has a PhD in Health Behavior with a doctoral concentration in human sexuality from Indiana University (IU), and a master’s degree (also from IU) in Counseling, with a clinical internship at the Kinsey Institute Sexual Health Clinic. She has taught graduate and undergraduate classes in human sexuality, relationships and communication, stress management, and sex education."

What all that means, really, is that I am here to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies. It's a small goal in the grand scheme of things - I'm not trying to bring peace to the Middle East or repair the ozone layer - but it's a goal that I think truly does have the power to change lives and, ultimately, the world.

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Benito Taibo

Benito Taibo, nació en la ciudad de México en 1960. Su trabajo transita entre la poesía, el cómic, la televisión y la publicidad. Entre sus libros se encuentran tres volúmenes publicados: Recetas para el desastre, Vivos y suicidas, y De la función social de las gitanas (2002).

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Yolanda Oreamuno

Yolando Oreamuno Unger was a Costa Rican writer. Her most acclaimed novel is La Ruta de su Evasión (1948). Her 40 years of life were markedly divided into two phases: the first 20 years, filled with youth, beauty and happiness, contrasted sharply with the following years of tragedy, loneliness and sickness.

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Manuel González Zeledón

Manuel González Zeledón (24 December 1864 – 29 May 1936) was a Costa Rican writer. Writing under the nom-de-plume "Magón", he also worked to promote culture and literature in the country.

While his literary output was not prolific, he is remembered for works that serve to cast light on the people and culture of Costa Rica.

Born in San José, he began his writing career on the newspaper La Patria, which at the time was edited by the writer Aquileo J. Echeverría. Later, in conjunction with other writers, he founded the newspaper El País, opposing clerical interference in the government of the country.

In 1932 he was appointed ambassador the United States, a position he still held at the time of his death.

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Fernanda Melchor

Nací en el puerto de Veracruz. Escribí el libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami y las novelas Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Páradais.

I was born in Veracruz, Mexico. I wrote the non-fiction book Aquí no es Miami and the novels Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Paradais.

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Manuel González Zeledón

Manuel González Zeledón (24 December 1864 – 29 May 1936) was a Costa Rican writer. Writing under the nom-de-plume "Magón", he also worked to promote culture and literature in the country.

While his literary output was not prolific, he is remembered for works that serve to cast light on the people and culture of Costa Rica.

Born in San José, he began his writing career on the newspaper La Patria, which at the time was edited by the writer Aquileo J. Echeverría. Later, in conjunction with other writers, he founded the newspaper El País, opposing clerical interference in the government of the country.

In 1932 he was appointed ambassador the United States, a position he still held at the time of his death.

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Virgilio Mora Rodríguez

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