Authors

Guillermo Arriaga

Guillermo Arriaga, who was born in 1958 in Mexico City, is a renowned scriptwriter and producer who won the prize for best screenplay at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.”

Federico Andahazi

Andahazi is a prizewinning Argentine writer who was born in Buenos Aires in 1963. His works "Las piadosas" and "Por encargo" won awards at the Saint Thomas of Aquinas Institute’s national short-story contest. He is the son of Bela Andahazi, an aristocratic Hungarian poet and psychoanalyst, and Juana Merlín, of Russian-Jewish ancestry (Wilkipedia)

Dámaso Alonso

A Spanish poet, philologist, literary critic and historian born in Madrid in 1898, Alonso served as director of the Real Academia de España (Royal Spanish Academy) from 1968 to 1982 and was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1978.

Isabel Allende

She is a Chilean writer who has sold more than 35 million copies of her books and is considered Latin America’s most popular female writer, Allende was born on Aug. 2, 1942 in Lima (Perú) during the time her father was Chile’s Ambassador to Peru.

Vicente Aleixandre

A Spanish poet born in Seville in 1898, Aleixandre spent his early childhood in Málaga before moving with his family to Madrid in 1909.

Rafael Alberti

A poet and playwright, Alberti was born in 1902 in the Spanish port city of El Puerto de Santa Maria, near Cádiz (Spain). During the 1936-1939 civil war he became a political activist and headed several Communist-oriented magazines.

Leopoldo Alas Clarín

A Spanish writer and journalist who was born in Zamora in 1852. Alas and Benito Pérez Galdós are considered by many to be the two greatest Spanish novelists of the 19th century.

José Manuel Caballero Bonald

A Spanish poet, novelist and essayist born on November 11, 1926 Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz, Spain). Caballero Bonald studied navigation, economics and philosophy and letters.

Antonio Álamo

Spanish writer born in 1964 in Córdoba, Spain. His work Breve historia de la inmortalidad won the 1996 Lengua de Trapo Narrative Prize and gained him recognition as a novelist Álamo’s works have been included in the short story collections Páginas Amarillas and Daños colaterales.

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