A Spanish writer born in 1962 in Caceres, Spain, Cercas worked for two years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and, since 1989, has been professor of Spanish literature at Spain’s University of Gerona.
A Spanish writer born in 1962 in Caceres, Spain, Cercas worked for two years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and, since 1989, has been professor of Spanish literature at Spain’s University of Gerona.
Born in Spain on May 11, 1916, Cela was a novelist, poet, columnist and author of blindman’s ballads and unforgettable travel diaries, as well as a member of the Cervantes Institute’s Board of Trustees since its founding.
Luisa Castro Legazpi, Spanish poet and novelist, was born on January 6th 1966 in the northwestern town of Foz (Lugo, Spain).
A Spanish writer born in Madrid in 1970, he is the younger brother of Martín Casariego.
Martín Casariego Córdoba is a Spanish author who was born in Madrid in 1962 and began writing at the age of 16.
A Cuban novelist, musicologist and music and theater critic, Carpentier was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1904 but spent his early childhood in Havana.
Campayo is a Spanish writer and memory trainer who was born in Albacete in 1965. He possesses perhaps the fastest memory of all time, a talent evidenced by several world records he holds.
Born on Jan. 17, 1600 in Madrid, Calderón was one of the greatest playwrights of Spain’s Golden Age. He was born into a family considered part of the lower nobility and his father served as secretary to the treasury.
Born in 1929 in the eastern Cuban town of Gibara, Cabrera Infante, in addition to being a writer, was founder of the Cinemateca de Cuba and a cultural attache in Belgium.
Antonio Considered the most important Spanish playwright of the post-Civil War era, Buero Vallejo was born in the central city of Guadalajara in 1916 and died in Madrid in 2000.
