Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, (4 April 1914 -3 March 1996) known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.
Collections of short stories of noted Canadian writer Alice Munro of life in rural Ontario include Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and Moons of Jupiter (1982); for these and vivid novels, she…
A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (19…
Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short storie…
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His work, muc…
Jorge Volpi (México, 1968) Es licenciado en Derecho y maestro en Letras Mexicanas por la unam y doctor en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Salamanca.
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and one of the most distinctive contemporary writers in English. Born in Toronto in 1950, she studied Classics at the University of To…
Sylvia Molloy is an Argentine writer and critic who has taught at Princeton, Yale and NYU, from where she retired in 2010. At NYU she held the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities. She is the aut…
Born in Buenos Aires to Jewish parents who had fled Eastern Europe (namely Rivne, a city which was Polish at the time and is Ukrainian today) and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined fo…
Murnane's first two books, Tamarisk Row (1974) and A Lifetime on Clouds (1976), seem to be semi-autobiographical accounts of his childhood and adolescence. Both are composed largely of very long but g…
Agustín Gómez Arcos (Agustin Gomez-Arcos in France) was a Spanish writer, anarchist and dramatist born in Almería, Andalusia. He studied law but quit university for theater. However, some of his work …
En los años ochenta Angélica Liddell Zoo, seudónimo de Catalina Angélica González Cano (Figueras, 1966), inicia su trayectoria artística como autora dramática. Tras cursar estudios de Sicología y Arte…
Rodrigo García es uno de los más notables dramaturgos – directores del cambio de siglo en España. Nacido en Argentina pero afincado desde muy joven en Madrid, su acercamiento al teatro comienza con un…
Pol Guasch (Tarragona, 1997) is a poet and member of the cultural production company La Sullivan. He earned an undergraduate degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (University of Barcelo…
