Jorge Majfud is a Uruguayan American writer.
María del Pilar Peña Sánchez, professionally known as Candela Peña, is a Spanish actress. Since her film debut in the 1994 thriller Running Out of Time, she has had a lengthy career in cinema. She won the Goya Award for Best Actress for her performance in Princesses (2005) whereas she won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress for Take My Eyes (2003) and A Gun in Each Hand (2012).
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize is a literary prize awarded to a book written in Spanish by a female author. It is organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Current winners of the prize receive USD$10,000.
Roy Berocay is a journalist and an author of children's literature from Uruguay.
Sergio Esteban Vélez Peláez is a Colombian writer, professor and journalist. He won the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar 2010 », the Premio Internacional de Periodismo José María Heredia 2010 .) and the Premio Cipa a la Excelencia Periodística 2012. The poet Olga Elena Mattei says that Vélez represents the Andean aspect of the contemporary Colombian poetry. Vélez is a Communicator of the University of Antioquia, Colombia.
The Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, held since 1975 in Huelva, Spain, is the oldest film festival in Europe dedicated to the Ibero-American cinema.
Leonardo Garet is a Uruguayan writer, teacher, and member of the National Academy of Uruguay.
Pedro Miguel de Cervantes Salvadores was a Mexican sculptor who exhibited in Mexico and abroad and created large monumental works for various locations in the country. Some of his work is noted for its use of used materials such as automobile parts from junkyards. Cervantes received various recognitions for his work including Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 2011 as well as membership in the Academia de Artes and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Yuri Herrera is a Mexican political scientist, editor, and contemporary writer. He currently teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Alicia Alfonso is a Uruguayan actress.
Amalia "Malí" Guzmán is a Uruguayan playwright, journalist, and writer of children's literature.
Roxana Blanco is a Uruguayan actress of film, theater, and television. She is a graduate of the Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art.
Susana Olaondo is a Uruguayan writer and illustrator.
The Golden Book Awards were created to honor Uruguayan and foreign best-selling books published in Uruguay. The prizes are awarded by the Uruguayan Book Chamber (CUL).
María del Pilar Sordo Martínez is a Chilean psychologist, columnist, lecturer, and writer.
The Crandon Institute is a private bilingual Methodist school in Montevideo, Uruguay. Crandon was founded in 1879 by teacher Cecilia Güelfi as the Liceo Evangélico, or Evangelical High School, and was the first school in the country with roots in the Evangelical movement.
The Setenil Award is a literary prize for the best short story book published in Spain. Convened annually since 2004 by the municipality of Molina de Segura in Murcia, it is one of the most prestigious in the country. As of 2018 it confers an economic endowment of €10,000, and the city council publishes a reprint of the winning work.
Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas is a Spanish historian who specializes in nationalism studies, the cultural history of war and violence, and migration studies.
Pablo Vierci is a Uruguayan journalist, author and screenwriter.
Tamara Kamenszain was an Argentine poet and essayist.
