Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in 1904 in Parral, Chile, was a poet, diplomat, and politician, widely considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th cen…
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
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), …
Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and l…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Enrique Jardiel Poncela (Madrid, 15 de octubre de 1901-ibídem, 18 de febrero de 1952) fue un escritor y dramaturgo español. Su obra, relacionada con el teatro del absurdo, se alejó del humor tradicio…
Platero y Yo (1914) ranks as most famous work of Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, who introduced modernism to Spanish verse and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956.
Torcuato Luca de Tena y Bruet was a journalist, novelist, dramatist, and poet. Son of novelist Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena y García de Torres, marqués de Luca de Tena, Marquis of Luca de Tena. Grandson …
Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japa…
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…
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…
Luis Martín Ribera (que luego cambiaría a Luis Martín-Santos Ribera, por voluntad de su padre Leandro) nace en Larache, Marruecos, en 1924. Hijo de Leandro y Mercedes, desplazados en Larache hasta 192…
Dramaturgo y poeta español que fue una de las figuras más destacadas del romanticismo. Nació en Valladolid y estudió en las universidades de Toledo y Valladolid. Escritor enormemente prolífico, public…
Luis Rosales Camacho fue un poeta y ensayista español de la generación de 1936. Miembro de la Real Academia Española y de la Hispanic Society of America desde 1962, obtuvo el Premio Cervantes en 1982 …
Ramón José Sender Garcés fue un novelista español. De espíritu rebelde y autodidáctico, se sintió siempre atraído por la ideología del anarquismo, incluso cuando, avanzada la vida, se apartó de las ac…
Vicent Andrés i Estellés (Burjassot, Horta Nord, 4 de setembre del 1924 - València, 27 de març del 1993) va ser un periodista, escriptor i un dels més importants poetes valencians del segle XX i dels …
Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family o…
Josep Maria Castellet i Díaz de Cossío (Barcelona, 15 de desembre de 1926 - Barcelona, 9 de gener de 2014) va ser un escriptor, crític literari i editor català. Va tenir un paper destacat en la vida c…
Lana Corujo is an artist who works mainly in illustration and writing. She studied Illustration and Design at the School of Art in Madrid, and in the field of writing she has participated in the antho…