Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as Vice President of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega. He has been described as Nicaragua's "best-known living writer".
Diamela Eltit is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the National Prize for Literature.
Lorenzo Manuel Silva Amador is a Spanish award-winning writer. After earning a law degree at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002.
José Antonio Gurriarán was a Spanish journalist and assistant director of the Pueblo newspaper. He was the founder of the second chain of Canal Sur.
Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish author. He has authored several award-winning books that mix genres and has been branded as one of the most original and prominent writers in the Spanish language.
Roberto Ampuero is a Chilean author, columnist, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, a position he held from March 11, 2018 to June 13, 2019. His first novel ¿Quién mató a Kristián Kustermann? was published in 1993 and in it he introduced his private eye, Cayetano Brulé, winning the Revista del Libro prize of El Mercurio. Since then the detective has appeared in five novels. In addition he has published an autobiographical novel about his years in Cuba titled Nuestros Años Verde Olivo (1999) and the novels Los Amantes de Estocolmo ) and Pasiones Griegas. His novels have been published in Latin America and Spain, and have been translated into German, French, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek, Croatian, and English. In Chile his works have sold more than 40 editions. Ampuero now resides in Iowa where he is a professor at the University of Iowa in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was a columnist of La Tercera and the New York Times Syndicate and since March 2009 has been working as a columnist for El Mercurio. Between 2013 and 2014 he was Minister of Culture in the government of Sebastián Piñera.
Federico Andahazi is an Argentine writer and psychologist.
Juan Manuel Rodríguez López is a Spanish-born, naturalized Ecuadorian author and professor. He holds a licenciate/BA degree in philosophy and a doctorate in literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE). He was a professor at Universidad Central del Ecuador and Universidad Católica, as well as a founding professor of Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where he was Dean of the College of Communication and Contemporary Arts.
Renato Prada Oropeza was a Bolivian and Mexican scientist-literary researcher and writer, author of novels, short stories and poetry books, hermeneutics, semiotics and literary theory. Many of his literary works have been translated into several languages. He was one of the most distinguished semioticians in Mexico and Latin America.
Science fiction in Chile began in the late 19th century with the publication of the books El espejo del mundo in 1875 by the Englishman Benjamin Tallman, about the modernization of Valparaíso and Santiago, and in 1877 of Desde Jupiter by Francisco Miralles, which recounted a trip to the planet and back.
Mónica Lavín is a Mexican author of six books of short stories, notable among them Ruby Tuesday no ha muerto ; Uno no sabe ; and her most recent collection, La corredora de Cuemanco y el aficionado a Schubert. In addition she was awarded the Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Novel Prize for her work Yo, la peor (2010).
Ángel David Revilla Lenoci, better known as DrossRotzank or simply Dross, is a Venezuelan YouTuber and writer who currently resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 2005.
Alejandra Costamagna Crivelli is a Chilean writer and journalist.
Joaquín Barañao Díaz is a Chilean writer and podcaster, who specialized in books and podcasts about history. Specifically on freak fun facts about different topics.
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).
Patricio Jara Álvarez is a Chilean writer and journalist.
Waldo Leonidas Parra Pizarro is a Chilean lawyer, Ph.D. in Law, university professor and novelist. Author of the national bestseller Masones & Libertadores.
Jorge Inostrosa Cuevas was a Chilean novelist, biographer, journalist, and screenwriter for radio, theater, and television. By his own account, "he lived to write and for what he gained from writing." Upon his death, he had more than 30 titles under his belt, as well as lyrics, poems, and a significant number of scripts for film, radio, and television.
Pablo Andrés Menichetti Tassara is a Chilean author and coach. He is known for his work in Educational Coaching, students and teachers seminars, and two self-help books, Smart Learning and Smart Learning and the Educator of the Future.
José María Marco Tobarra is a Spanish essayist and liberal-conservative opinion journalist.
