Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written n…
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind). The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in …
Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter, and former politician best known for her internationally acclaimed debut novel Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate). Blending magical…
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Susanna Tamaro is an Italian novelist. Her second novel Per voce sola (Just For One Voice) won the International PEN Award and was translated into several languages. Her novel Va' dove ti porta il cuore…
Banana Yoshimoto (よしもと ばなな or 吉本 ばなな) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子), a Japanese contemporary writer. She writes her name in hiragana. (See also 吉本芭娜娜 (Chinese).)
Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish post-romanticist writer of poetry, short stories, and nonfiction now considered one of the most important figure…
(Born 1951) Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. She received the run…
De nombre de pila Antonio Ángel Custodio Sergio Alejandro María de los Dolores Reina de los Mártires de la Santísima Trinidad y de Todos los Santos,4 nació y vivió su infancia en Brazatortas, provinc…
Platero y Yo (1914) ranks as most famous work of Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, who introduced modernism to Spanish verse and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956.
Zoé Milagros Valdés Martínez estudió en el Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, pero abandonó los estudios antes de terminar (hizo hasta cuarto año); después ingresó en la Facultad de Fi…
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges…
(Ovalle, Chile, 1949 – Oviedo, España, 2020) Luis Sepúlveda was a Chilean writer, film director, journalist and political activist. Exiled during the Pinochet regime, most of his work was written in G…
Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican writer and one of the best-known novelists and essayists of the 20th century in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes influenced contemporary Latin American literatur…
Santiago García-Clairac es un escritor y publicista español. Nació en Mont-de-Marsants (Francia) en julio de 1944. Estudió Publicidad, aunque dedicaba su tiempo libre a dibujar historietas. Ha trabajado …
Ο Γιάννης Ξανθούλης (English: Giannis Xanthoulis) είναι Έλληνας μυθιστοριογράφος, θεατρικός συγγραφέας και δημοσιογράφος. Γεννήθηκε το 1947 στην Αλεξανδρούπολη από οικογένεια προσφύγων και σπούδασε δη…
Ο Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος (English: Vangelis Raptopoulos) είναι Έλληνας συγγραφέας με περίπου τριάντα βιβλία, κυρίως μυθιστορήματα, που έχουν εκδοθεί και σε ξένες γλώσσες και έχουν διασκευαστεί για θέατρ…
