Juan Rulfo was born in the western Mexican state of Jalisco on May 16, 1917 and died Jan. 7, 1986 in Mexico City.

Born in Barcelona in 1964, Ruiz Zafon worked in advertising for several years before relocating to Los Angeles to become a screenwriter and launch his literary career.

A writer born in Lima, Peru in 1975.

Rocangliolo has published the novels Pudor and El príncipe de los caimanes, as well as the book of short stories Crecer es un oficio triste.

Born in Mexico City in 1965.

Rivas studied law and journalism and has worked in radio, television and print journalism.

Psychologist Walter Riso is one of the most popular Latin American authors on the subject of personal growth, with more than one million copies sold.

A Golden Age poet and prose writer born Sept. 17, 1580 in Madrid, Quevedo was the son of noble parents.

A Spanish writer and columnist, Juan Manuel de Prada was born in 1970 in the Basque town of Barakaldo but spent his childhood and adolescence in the northwestern town of Zamora.

Elena Poniatowska Amor was born in Paris on May 19, 1933.

A Spanish poet and novelist born in the northern city of Santander on June 23, 1939, Pombo earned an arts degree from the University of Madrid and also a degree in philosophy from London’s Birkbeck College.

Born in the city of Puebla in 1933, Pitol studied law and philosophy in Mexico’s capital.