Rafael Argullol Murgadas (Barcelona, 1949), narrador, poeta y ensayista, es catedrático de Estética y Teoría de las Artes en la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Es autor de más …
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known…
Marguerite Yourcenar, original name Marguerite de Crayencour, was a french novelist, essayist, poet and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (French Ac…
Luis Martín Ribera (que luego cambiaría a Luis Martín-Santos Ribera, por voluntad de su padre Leandro) nace en Larache, Marruecos, en 1924. Hijo de Leandro y Mercedes, desplazados en Larache hasta 192…
Roberto Calasso (1941-2021) was an Italian publisher and writer. He was born into a family of the local upper class, well connected with some of the great Italian intellectuals of their time. His mate…
Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression, Emil Ci…
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and pu…
Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan. He graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in th…
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter, and Art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolle…
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
Joe Abercrombie was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Manchester University, where he studied psychology. He moved into television production before taking up a career as a freelance film…
Leila Guerriero is an Argentinian journalist. She began her career in 1991, as an editor with the magazine Página/30, part of the Argentine newspaper Página/12. Since then her texts have appeared in v…
I was born to Nigerian parents and grew up in Lagos. My mother taught French. My father was a business executive who exported chocolate. The first book I read (I was six) was an abridgment of Tom Sawy…
Julián Ayesta Prendes (Gijón 1919-1996) fue un escritor español de posguerra, colaborador de las principales revistas literarias de esta época (Garcilaso, Acanto, Fantasía, Juventud). Nacido en el seno…
Jean-Yves Jouannais (Montluçon, 1964) es crítico de arte y durante diez años fue redactor jefe de Artpress. Ha escrito ensayos entre los que destacan L’idiotie, Artistas sin obra y El uso de las ruina…
Es psicoanalista y escritora. Conferenciante invitada en distintas universidades y asociaciones psicoanalíticas españolas y extranjeras, ha publicado ensayos y obras de ficción. Entre las últimas dest…
José Carlos Llop es autor de dos libros de relatos: Pasaporte diplomático (El Aleph, 1991) y La novela del siglo (Premio NH para el Mejor Libro de Cuentos publicado en 1999; El …
Marisa Madieri è stata una scrittrice italiana. In origine il cognome della famiglia paterna (fiumana, ma di origini evidentemente ungheresi) era Madjarić, poi fu modificato in Madierich e successivam…
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
Donal Ryan is the author of the novels The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December, the short-story collection A Slanting of the Sun, and the forthcoming novel All We Shall Know. He holds a degree in…
Tomasi was born in Palermo to Giulio Maria Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, and Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò. He became an only child after the death (…
María Gainza nació en Buenos Aires. Trabajó en la corresponsalía de The New York Times en Buenos Aires y fue corresponsal de ArtNews. Durante más de diez años fue colaboradora regular de la revista Ar…
