José. B Adolph nació en Stuttgart, pero su familia huyó de la Alemania nazi y se instaló en Perú en 1938, cuando él tenía tan solo cinco años de edad. Cultivó la literatura fantástica y la ciencia fic…
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t…
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, my…
Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific American science fiction author whose work has had a lasting impact on literature, cinema, and popular culture. Known for his imaginative narratives and profound phi…
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian…
Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. He married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit', a c…
Mario Bellatin grew up in Peru as the son of Peruvian parents. He spent two years studying theology at the seminary Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo and graduated from the University of Lima. In 1987, Bella…
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…
Jaime Bayly Letts es un escritor, presentador y periodista peruano nacionalizado estadounidense y radicado en Miami. Se destaca por su humor ácido y su escritura ágil, dinámica y entretenida.
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Rafael Dumett nació en Lima en 1963. Estudió Lingüística en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, y teatro en el Teatro de la Universidad Católica. También realizó estudios de teatro en La Sorb…
Jorge Oswaldo Reynoso Díaz nació el 10 de abril de 1931 en Arequipa, Perú. Hijo de Luis Reynoso y Rosa Díaz, ambos tacneños, creció en el barrio de San Lázaro y desarrolló desde niño una pasión por la…
Estudió literatura en la Universidad Católica del Perú, la maestría en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, y el doctorado en la Universidad Michel Montaigne, en Burdeos. Es autor de las novel…
Carlos Calderón Fajardo fue sociólogo de profesión (PUCP). Publicó trabajos de su especialidad en varias revistas académicas y en diarios de circulación nacional.
Augusto Higa Oshiro (b. 1946, Lima) studied Peruvian and Latin American literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. His publications include the story collections Que te coma el tigre …
Cronwell Jara Jiménez obtuvo la licenciatura en Literatura en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UMSM). En 1983 representó al Perú en el encuentro de Jóvenes Artistas Latinoamericanos, organ…
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Soviet Union. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to b…
