Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of t…
Homer (Greek: Όμηρος born c. 8th century BC) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer …
Roman poet Virgil, also Vergil, originally Publius Vergilius Maro, composed the Aeneid, an epic telling after the sack of Troy of the wanderings of Aene…
Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (ca. 480 BC–406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have sur…
Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής; German: Sophokles, Russian: Софокл, French: Sophocle, Catalan: Sòfocles) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three …
Aristophanes (Greek: Αριστοφάνης; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually…
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), …
(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…
Jesús Moncada i Estruga fou un escriptor en llengua catalana nascut a Mequinensa (Baix Cinca) el 1941 i mort a Barcelona el 13 de juny de 2005. La població de la Franja d'Aragó, on va viure fins a la …
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…
Greek: Μένανδρος Menander (ca. 342–291 BC), the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian genera…
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…
Maite Carranza Gil-Dolz studied Anthropology and worked as a teacher. In 1992 she began to write full time. She has received several awards, including the EDEBA children’s literature prize and has wri…
Joan Puig i Ferreter va néixer a La Selva del Camp el 5 de febrer de l'any 1882. Fill il·legítim d'un ric terratinent, va passar la infantesa i l'adolescència a Reus amb la seva mare a casa d'uns oncl…
Miquel Llor (Barcelona, 1894 - 1966). Novel·lista, contista i traductor. La seva prosa, molt elaborada, fa patent la influència de Joyce, Proust, Svevo, Dostoievski i Freud, i és essencial per entendr…
Santiago Rusiñol (Barcelona, 1861 - Aranjuez, 1931) Autor dramàtic, narrador, pintor i col·leccionista. Va iniciar la seva carrera creativa com a pintor, i amb posterioritat es va dedicar a la literat…
Publius Terentius Afer (c. 195/185–159 BC), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around …
Joan Salvat-Papasseit was a Catalan poet, though he also wrote articles, manifestos and other prose of a political and social nature. He wrote primarily in Catalan, although he had an early period of …
Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra (Barcelona, 13 de novembre de 1952 - Barcelona, 5 de juliol de 1998) fou una poetessa, narradora, editora i traductora, a més d'activista política, cultural i feminista, cat…
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…
