Luis de Góngora y Argote, a Golden Age poet and playwright, was born in Córdoba, Spain in 1561.

A Spanish writer and journalist born in Madrid in 1977.

Spanish author Gustavo Martín Garzo, the winner of the 1994 National Narrative Prize for “El lenguaje de las fuentes,” had already made a name for himself in literary circles with three previous novels, as well as for his literary criticism and contributions to the magazine Un Ángel Más.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. An author, journalist and screenwriter, his most famous work is Cien años de soledad, which is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the magical realism genre and has become a classic of world literature.

García Lorca was born in the southern Spanish town of Fuente Vaqueros on June 5, 1898.

This acclaimed Mexican writer was born on Nov. 11, 1928 in Panama City, where his father worked in the diplomatic service. Fuentes is one of Latin America’s best-known contemporary writers.

A Spanish author born in 1966 in Valencia. Etxebarria started out writing marketing material for video cameras and also worked for the magazines Ruta 66 and Cosmopolitan.

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre was a Spanish playwright and politician who was born in Madrid in 1832.

Born on October 3, 1896 in Santander, Spain, Diego was a professor of language and literature who formed part of a vanguard of poets known as the Generation of ’27.

A novelist, short-story writer, essayist, jounalist and professor, Delibes was born in Valladolid, Spain on Oct. 17, 1920 and died on March 12th 2010 in the same city.