Francisco Ayala García-Duarte was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.
José María Merino is a Spanish novelist born in A Coruña, Galicia on 5 March 1941. He is the father of two daughters, María and Ana, both of them university professors. He lived for several years in León and currently lives in Madrid. Best known for his novels and short stories, he is also a poet and a travel writer.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela was a Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works.
Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel is a Spanish writer. He studied philosophy and is the author of the essay 'A History of Lying'. He's also well known in his native country for his short stories and his novels, including El asesino hipocondríaco and El gran imaginador . His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Greek, Finnish, Turkish, Arabic and Russian, and published in more than a dozen countries.
Francisco Torres Oliver is one of the most important Spanish translators. He studied "Filosofía y letras", in the branch of Philosophy, at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
Andrés Neuman is an Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger.
José Hierro del Real, sometimes colloquially called Pepe Hierro, was a Spanish poet. He belonged to the so-called postwar generation, within the rootless and existential poetry streams. He wrote for both Espadaña and Garcilaso magazines. In 1981, he received the Prince of Asturias Awards in Literature, in 1998 the Cervantes Prize and he received many more awards and honours.
Segundo Serrano Poncela was a Spanish Republican politician, writer, literary critic, and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was a contributor to Claridad, the periodical of Francisco Largo Caballero, as well as a member of the Defense Council of Madrid, in which capacity he signed the orders for the removal from the prisons of Madrid various inmates who were subsequently massacred. At the end of the Spanish Civil War he went into exile in Latin America, where he taught literature.
Federico Martínez Roda is a professor of history at the Valencia Catholic University.
Iris M. Zavala was a Puerto Rican author, scholar, and poet, who later lived in Barcelona, Spain. She had over 50 works to her name, plus hundreds of articles, dissertations, and conferences and many of her writings, including "Nocturna, mas no funesta", build on and express this belief.
Patricia Esteban Erlés is a Spanish secondary school teacher, journalist for the Heraldo de Aragón and a short story writer. She studied Spanish language and literature at the University of Zaragoza. She has won a number of major awards and her work has been included in several anthologies. Her stories have been praised by literary critic Rachel Rees for their “biting wit”.
Antonio Tovar Llorente was a Spanish philologist, linguist and historian.
Faustina Sáez de Melgar, née Faustina Sáez y Soria (1834–1895) was a Spanish writer and journalist. She was mother of the composer and painter Gloria Melgar Sáez.
Clara Obligado Marcó del Pont is an Argentine-Spanish writer.
Eduardo González Calleja is a Spanish historian, professor of Contemporary History at the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M). He is the author of a long list of scholar works dealing with political violence.
Raymunda Torres y Quiroga was an Argentine writer and women's rights activist. She defended access to education and the emancipation of women in Argentina.
Las voladoras is a book of short stories by Ecuadorian writer Mónica Ojeda, published for the first time in 2020 by publishing house Páginas de Espuma. The book is composed of eight stories that take place in Andean settings which are marked by mysticism, violence, ancestral rites, and horror, in a style that the author herself defined as Andean gothic. Some of the themes she addresses include: feminicides, domestic violence, grief, child abuse, forbidden love, and abortion, among others.
Pilar Adón is a Spanish writer and translator. She is the author of the novels De bestias y aves, Las efímeras, and Las hijas de Sara; the short story collections La vida sumergida, El mes más cruel, and Viajes inocentes; the short novel Eterno amor; and the poetry collections Da dolor, Las órdenes, Mente animal, and La hija del cazador. Among the awards she has received are the Critical Eye Award (2005), the Madrid Bookstores Award for Best Book of Poems (2018), the Cálamo Award (2023), the Francisco Umbral Award for Book of the Year (2023), the Spanish Critics' Award for Best Book in Spanish (2023), and the National Literature Prize for Narrative (2023).
Joaquina García Balmaseda de González was a Spanish actress, journalist, poet, humorist, and translator.
