Jorge Majfud is a Uruguayan American professor and 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 film career. 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The Premio Adonáis, or Adonais Prize for Poetry, is awarded annually in Spain by Ediciones RIALP to an unpublished Spanish language poem. Runners-up are also recognized.
Roy Berocay is a journalist and an author of children's literature from Uruguay.
Leonardo Garet is a Uruguayan writer, teacher, and member of the National Academy of Uruguay.
Carlos Elejalde Garay better known as Karra Elejalde, is a Spanish actor and occasional filmmaker.
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.
Selva Casal was a Uruguayan poet.
Historia general de las Indias is the account by Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. The first printing was in December 1552, in the workshop of Agustín Millán in Zaragoza, published under the title La istoria de las Indias
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.
Pablo Vierci is a Uruguayan journalist, author and screenwriter. He grew up with many of the people who were involved in the 1972 crash in the Andes mountains, and worked with survivors on his 2009 non-fiction book La Sociedad de la Nieve. Filmmaker J. A. Bayona adapted this book into the 2023 film Society of the Snow.
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi is a Spanish novelist.
¿Quién es la máscara? is a Uruguayan reality singing competition television series that premiered on Teledoce on May 5, 2022. It is part of the Masked Singer franchise which began in South Korea and features celebrities singing songs while wearing head-to-toe costumes and face masks concealing their identities. Hosted by Maximiliano de la Cruz, the program employs Fabián Delgado, Sofía Rodríguez, Patricia Wolf and Pablo Turturiello, who serve as panelists who guess the celebrities' identities by interpreting clues provided to them throughout the season.
Rosalba Oxandabarat was a Uruguayan journalist and film critic.
