Octavio Paz is the most renowned and controversial Mexican poet of the second half of the 20th century.

(Bolivia, 1967) is one of the most influential Bolivian writers of the new generation.

Born in Puebla, Mexico in 1966.

Palou is a member of the so-called “Crack Generation".

A Mexican journalist, editor and diplomat born in 1968, he has lived and studied in several foreign countries, including Spain, England and Swaziland.

Spaniard Blas de Otero, one of the leading figures of his country’s trend toward social poetry in the 1950s, was born in Bilbao in 1916 and died in Madrid in 1979.

Andrés Neuman was born in Buenos Aires in 1977 but moved to Spain to study Spanish Philology at the University of Granada, where he co-edited the magazine Letra Clara and taught classes in Spanish American literature.

Pablo Neruda, born in Parral, Chile on July 12, 1904, was the pen name of the poet and political activist Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes.

Muñoz Molina is a Spanish writer who was born in the southern town of Úbeda in 1956.

Carlos Monsivais is a writer and journalist who was born on May 4, 1938 in Mexico City.

A Chilean poet who was born in the small north-central town of Vicuña in 1889, Mistral is best known as Latin America’s first Nobel Literature laureate.