A Spanish poet born in Valladolid on Jan. 18, 1893, Guillén’s life paralleled that of his friend Pedro Salinas, whom he succeeded as a Spanish teaching assistant at the University of Paris’ College de Sorbonne from 1917 to 1923.
A Spanish poet born in Valladolid on Jan. 18, 1893, Guillén’s life paralleled that of his friend Pedro Salinas, whom he succeeded as a Spanish teaching assistant at the University of Paris’ College de Sorbonne from 1917 to 1923.
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.”
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.
Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (February 17, 1836 – December 22, 1870), better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, he was a Spanish Romanticist poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing.
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.
A Spanish playwright and critic who was born in Madrid in 1866, Benavente first gained recognition with a series of women’s letters titled Cartas de mujeres (1893) and the comic play El nido ajeno (1894).
A Spanish philosopher, writer and editor, Azpeitia was born in Madrid in 1962. He is the author of the novels 'Mesalina' ('Messalina') (1989), 'Quevedo' (1990), 'Hipnos' ('Hypnos') (1996; winner of the Hammett Prize for crime writing and adapted for the cinema by the director David Carreras), 'Ariadna en Naxos' ('Adriadne on Naxos') (2002) and 'Nadie me mata'.
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.
Jiménez is a Spanish poet who was born in the southern town of Moguer in 1881 and died in Puerto Rico in 1958.
Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires on Aug. 24, 1899. Considered one of Latin America’s foremost literary figures, he was especially known for his inventive short stories, fictive essays and poetry.
