Authors

Luisa Castro

Luisa Castro Legazpi, Spanish poet and novelist, was born on January 6th 1966 in the northwestern town of Foz (Lugo, Spain).

MACHADO, Antonio

A Spanish poet and prose author, Machado was a member of the literary movement known as the Generation of ’98 and is probably the most widely read writer from that period.

MARÍAS, Fernando

Marías was born in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao on June 13, 1958 but was raised in Madrid, where he studied cinema at university and currently lives.

Martín Casariego

Martín Casariego Córdoba is a Spanish author who was born in Madrid in 1962 and began writing at the age of 16.

MENDOZA, Eduardo

Eduardo Mendoza, 64, is a native of Barcelona who grew up in a literary home, which he says had a bearing on his decision to become a writer.

Miguel Angel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias, (born October 19, 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala—died June 9, 1974, Madrid, Spain), Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 and the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize in 1966.

Miguel de Cervantes

Spain’s greatest literary figure was born in 1547 and died in April 1616 in Madrid.

Miguel Delibes Setien

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.

MIHURA, Miguel

Mihura, a Spanish writer and journalist who was born in Madrid in 1905, was the son of actor, author and house manager Miguel Mihura Álvarez.

MISTRAL, Gabriela

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.

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