Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890…
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…
Maria Luisa Bombal was one of the first Spanish American novelists to break away from the realist tradition in fiction and to write in a highly individual and personal style, stressing irrational and …
Marcela Paz was the pen name of Esther Huneeus Salas de Claro, a Chilean writer. She also used the pen names of Paula de la Sierra, Lukim Retse, P. Neka and Juanita Godoy.
John Katzenbach is a U.S. author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, John worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News, an…
Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty lan…
Fue un novelista y diplomático chileno, considerado el padre de la novela chilena. Se le considera pionero en Iberoamérica de la novela realista, en la misma cuerda de Balzac y Stendhal. Su producción…
(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…
Hijo de Pedro Mardones, panadero, y Violeta Lemebel, nació "literalmente en la orilla del Zanjón de la Aguada" y "vivió en medio del barro" hasta que, a mediados de los años sesenta, "su familia se mu…
Escritor mexicano (México, 1964). Nació en México el 15 de abril de 1964. Desde niño quiso imitar a su abuelo, el filósofo escritor Claudio Gutiérrez Marín. Producto de ello a sus 12 años ya había esc…
Psychologist Robert Curran is an well-known expert in folklore and the paranormal, who has written dozens of fascinating books on faeries, vampires,werewolves and stranger things. His most recent book…
Inio Asano (浅野いにお, Asano Inio) is a Japanese cartoonist. He is known for his character-driven stories and his detailed art-style, making him one of the most influential manga author of his generation.…
Francisca Solar (1983) es una escritora chilena publicada en 20 países y con más de 150.000 copias vendidas, autora de novelas y cuentos para niños, jóvenes y adultos en diversos géneros, si bien es m…
(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…
Cuentista chileno, considerado el maestro del género del realismo social en su país. Una de sus obras más famosas es Subterra, que retrata la vida de los mineros del carbón de Lota, y en particular en…
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics…
Patricia Paola Fernández Silanes (Santiago, 1971), más conocida como Nona Fernández, es una actriz, escritora, guionista y feminista chilena. Hija única de madre soltera, Nona Fernández creció en un ba…
Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011) fue un destacado escritor, ensayista y físico argentino. Nacido en Rojas, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, estudió física en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y posteriorm…
Pilar Asuero es escritora, editora y cofundadora del proyecto de difusión literaria La Elocuente. Es graduada en Letras Hispánicas en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y ha cursado el Máster…
