Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx who worked as a socialist and feminist activist and sometime literary translator. Along with Edward Aveling, she was co-founder of the S…
Sir Antony James Beevor is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works, mainly on the Second World War, the Spanish Civil War, and most recently the Russian Revolut…
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and emotionally powerful authors of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts,…
Ken Kesey was American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drug…
Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to re…
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 19…
Michael John Parenti, Ph.D. (Yale University) was an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who wrote on scholarly and popular subjects. He taught at universities and als…
Rosa Luxemburg (Rosalia Luxemburg, Polish: Róża Luksemburg) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. She was succes…
Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias…
Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received m…
Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute o…
Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigio…
María Negroni is an Argentine poet, essayist, novelist and translator. As a poet she has published De tanto desolar (1985), La jaula bajo el trapo (1991), El viaje de la noche (1994), Diario Extranjer…
Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms…
Luciano Lamberti holds a bachelor's degree in modern literature from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. He writes for local and national media, works as a high school language teacher, a…
Director de la Escuela de Periodismo de la Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Estudió periodismo en la Universidad Diego Portales. Es autor de los libros Cecilia: La vida en llamas (2002), Los fusileros (20…
María José Ferrada is the author of Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War. She is a recipient of the Municipal Prize of Literature of Santiago, as well as the Academy Award from the Chil…
Mónica Ojeda was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1988. She has published novels, short stories, and poems, earning her nominations and accolades in various literary contests. In 2017, she was listed in…
Unno Jūza or Unno Jūzō (海野 十三, December 26, 1897 - May 17, 1949) was the pen name of Sano Shōichi (佐野 昌一), the founding father of Japanese science fiction. He was born to a family of medical doctors i…
Claudia Ulloa Donoso (born 6 September 1979) is a Peruvian writer. She was born in Lima, and studied tourism in her native Peru before studying Spanish at the University of Tromsø. Her published work …
Escritora chilena, autora de obras de ciencia ficción. Publicó, bajo el seudónimo Dolores Espina, textos periodísticos y literarios en los periódicos El Mercurio y El Sur, y en la revista Margarita. L…
