Gabriel Rivera-Barraza (born in Durango, Mexico) is a Mexican author and the founder of GRB Communications. He is the co-author of Nuevo New York (2016). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Vanity Fair is a monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
Jorge Majfud is a Uruguayan American writer.
Daína Chaviano is a Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent. She has lived in the United States since 1991.
Giannina Braschi is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (2011).
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.
The New Philippines was the abbreviated name of a territory in New Spain. Its full and official name was Nuevo Reino de Filipinas.
American literature written in Spanish in the United States dates back as 1610 when the Spanish explorer Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá published his epic poem Historia de Nuevo México. He was an early chronicler of the conquest of the Americas and a forerunner of Spanish-language literature in the United States given his focus on the American landscape and the customs of the people. However, it was not until the late 20th century that Spanish language literature written by Americans was regularly published in the United States.
Pedro de Rivera y Villalón was a brigadier general in the Spanish army, who was sent to New Mexico in 1724 to study the presidios near Louisiana.
Lourdes Vázquez is a Puerto Rican poet, fiction and essayist writer born in Santurce, Puerto Rico and a resident of the United States. Her poetry, short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her many collections, which have been translated into English and Italian by writers such as Bethany Korps-Edwards, Rosa Alcalá, Enriqueta Carrington and Brigidina Gentile have received excellent reviews. She is Librarian Emeritus of Rutgers University.
Alexis Iparraguirre is a Peruvian short story writer.
Ángela Aguilar Álvarez Alcalá is an American singer. She was born in Los Angeles while her mother was accompanying her father, Pepe Aguilar, on tour. Aguilar gained notable recognition after performing "La Llorona" at the 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2019. Her paternal grandparents are the actors and singers from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre.
Fernanda Melchor is a Mexican writer best known for her novel Hurricane Season for which she won the 2019 Anna Seghers Prize and a place on the shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize.
This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in Latin music in the 1980s, namely in Ibero-America. This includes recordings, festivals, award ceremonies, births and deaths of Latin music artists, and the advancement and adjournment of the genre from 1980 to 1989.
Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana is a Puerto Rican political party founded in 2019. It ran in the 2020 general elections on an anti-colonial platform, proposing a constitutional assembly to determine a final decision regarding the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico.
Martha Rivera-Garrido, also credited as Martha Rivera, is a writer from the Dominican Republic. She is part of the Dominican literary cohort named the 80s Generation. Rivera-Garrido was known primarily as a poet prior to the release of her debut novel, He Olvidado tu Nombre(I Have Forgotten Your Name). The novel won the International Novel Prize of the Casa de Teatro in 1996. In 2013, a street in Santo Domingo was named in her honour.
Francisco Alía Miranda is a Spanish historian. He has focused on the study of 20th century Spanish history. He has also published works dealing with the methodology of history.
Manuel Ríos Fernández, known professionally as Manu Ríos (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmanu ˈri.os], is a Spanish actor, singer and model best known for his role as Patrick in the Netflix series Elite. He has been working in the entertainment industry since he was 9 years old.
Keila Vall de la Ville is a Venezuelan author living in the United States. She is the author the 2016 novel Los días animales (2016) which received the International Latino Book Awards for Best Novel in 2018 and has been translated into English as The Animal Days (2021). Vall de la Ville's 2007 short story collection Ana no duerme (2007) was finalist in Venezuela's Concurso Nacional de Autores Inéditos. She has published the poetry book Viaje legado (2016), the short story collection Ana no duerme y otros cuentos (2016) and has edited the forthcoming anthology Between the Breath and the Abyss: Poetics on Beauty, a compilation of essays and poems by thirty-three contemporary poets on the subject of Beauty. Her fiction and non-fiction work is included in several anthologies. She collaborates with El Nacional's Papel Literario del Diario El Nacional, Viceversa Magazine and Prodavinci, among other digital media.
Elisa Milena Smit Márquez is a Spanish film and television actress. She was nominated at the 35th Goya Awards for best new actress for her work in Cross the Line.
Dr. Manuel A. Morán is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, writer, composer, puppeteer, theater and film director and producer. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Latino Children’s Theater, Teatro SEA,.