Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and out…
Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During his career he won three National Theatre Prizes (in 1957, 1958 & 1959), …
bell hooks (deliberately in lower-case; born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender…
Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina (l'Aranyó, la Segarra, 1 d'abril de 1918 - Barcelona, 26 de juny de 1990) fou un escriptor català. Conreà tots els gèneres literaris: poesia, teatre —classificat dins del te…
(Barcelona, 1925-2014) Escritora española. Novelista destacada de la llamada generación de los "niños asombrados", su obra describe el ambiente de la posguerra civil. Ana María Matute se dio a conocer…
She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', transl…
Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by t…
Philippe Claudel is a French writer and film director. His most famous work to date is the novel " Les Âmes Grises " - " Grey Souls ", which won the prix Renaudot award in France, was shortlisted for t…
Maggie O'Farrell (born 1972, Coleraine Northern Ireland) is a British author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. It is possible to identify several common …
Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist li…
Cada día tengo más dudas acerca de quién diablos es Care Santos. Si es la misma insulsa que todas las mañanas me mira desde el espejo del baño o es esa que, de vez en cuando, hace algo que merece la a…
Juan Trejo (Barcelona, 1970), licenciado en filología hispánica por la Universidad de Barcelona, fue miembro del consejo de redacción de Lateral y codirector de Quimera. En la actualidad imparte clase…
Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at London School of Economics, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, with expertise in Marxism and critical theo…
Irene Solà is a Spanish writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize …
Eva Baltasar is a Catalan poet and writer. She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona. She has published ten books of poetry, which have earned numerous awards including …
Jordi Teixidor Martínez fue un dramaturgo catalán. En el año 1968 ganó el premio Josep Maria de Sagarra con la obra El retaule del flautista, estrenada en el año 1970 y que llegó a superar las mil rep…
Ramón del Valle-Inclán was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in a rural village in Galicia, Spain. Obedient to his father’s wishes, he studied law in Compostela, but after his father’s dea…
Maria Arimany Almirón és educadora social de formació i treballa en l’àmbit de serveis socials. Llegir és una de les seves grans passions i això li va despertar la curiositat per l’escriptura com a fo…
