Mexican author and screenwriter. He is the author of two collections of short stories. The first one, Amores de segunda mano (Second hand loves) is widely regarded as a milestone in the genre.
Elena Garro was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as one of the pioneers and an early leading figure of the Magical Reali…
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…
Juan Rulfo nació el 16 de mayo de 1917 Él sostuvo que esto ocurrió en la casa familiar de Apulco, Jalisco, aunque fue registrado en la ciudad de Sayula, donde se conserva su acta de na…
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Span…
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…
Guillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. He received the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: Las Muertas (The Dead Girls), Dos Crim…
David Toscana was born in Monterrey in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León in 1961. After leaving school, he qualified as an engineer and worked in Ciudad Juárez. He started to write at the age o…
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. Regarded as one of the most important Latin American novelists working today, he is the author of seven novels, two volumes of st…
Nació en Tixtla, Guerrero, en el seno de una familia indígena; su padre tenía una posición de mando entre los chontales y en 1848 fue nombrado alcalde de Tixtla, lo cual dio al niño Ignacio Manuel, qu…
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…
Nació en la ciudad de Buenos Aires en 1948 en el barrio de Mataderos. Para Saccomanno no existe el destino como determinación, ya que cada cual puede modificarlo según su deseo. Como prueba, apela a t…
Agustin's first novel, La Tumba (The Tomb) was the brief but provocative story of a Mexican upperclass teen, deemed indecent by the public but gatherin…
Autora de los libros «Cuentos de maldad (y uno que otro maldito)» (editorial Alfaguara, 2020), «El niño que fuimos” (editorial Alfaguara, 2018), «Las noches habitadas” (editorial Planeta, 2015); y del…
Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and…
