María José Ferrada is the author of Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War. She is a recipient of the Municipal Prize of Literature of Santiago, as well as the Academy Award from the Chil…
Norton Juster was an American academic, architect, and writer. He was best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Mar…
Until the age of 11 he lived in the Algorta saltpeter mining town (north of Chile), after that his family moves to Antofagasta city, where he works in numerous jobs. For three years he travel by Chile…
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…
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short…
Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist particularly interested in overcoming gender and the heterosexual contract. She published her first novel, L'opoponax, in 1964 . Her second nov…
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer, born in Reykjavik on July 14, 1973. An award winning author published in 40 languages. His most recent book is On Time and Water - a book seeking to explore…
Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults. Her breakthrough work was the book No et moi (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des Libraires (Th…
Poeta, novelista, dramaturga y traductora colombiana nacida en Amalfi, Antioquia, en 1951. Es licenciada en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de los Andes, donde ocupa la cátedra de Literatura desd…
Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents, Multiple Choice, Not to Read, Chilean Poet and Childish Literature. His …
Violaine Bérot est une femme de lettres française. Elle est la fille de Marcellin Bérot, montagnard enraciné dans les Pyrénées et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur les Pyrénées, et de Marie-Claude Béro…
Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigio…
Saud Al-Sanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born in 1981. His work has appeared in a number of Kuwaiti publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and Al-Arabi, Al-Kuwait and Al-Abwab magazin…
Irene Vallejo Moreu (Zaragoza, 1979) estudió Filología Clásica y obtuvo el doctorado europeo por las universidades de Zaragoza y Florencia. En la actualidad lleva a cabo una intensa labor de divulgaci…
Estudió literatura en la Universidad de Chile. En el 2011 obtuvo la beca de creación literaria del Fondo del Libro y la Lectura. El año 2014 ganó el Premio Roberto Bolaño, en la categoría cuento, por …
Escritor y narrador oral, cofundador de la Compañía La Matrioska. Es autor de "El año en que hablamos con el mar", "La muerte viene estilando", "Taguada" y "Tony Ninguno" y del ensayo "Por qué contar …
