Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
Luisa Valenzuela Levinson is an Argentine post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.
Gloria Guardia was a Panamanian novelist, essayist and journalist whose works received recognition in Latin America, Europe, Australia and Japan. She was a Fellow at the Panamanian Academy of Letters and Associate Fellow at the Spanish Royal Academy, the Colombian and the Nicaraguan Academy of Letters
Sergio Chejfec was an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. Chejfec published eighteen books, including novels, essays, short stories, and a poetry collection. From 1990 to 2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He most recently lived in New York City and held the position of Distinguished Writer in Residence in the M.F.A. Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York University.
Alicia Dujovne Ortiz is an Argentine journalist and author.
Betina González is an Argentine writer.
Rubén Caba, born in Madrid, is a Spanish novelist and essayist. Caba earned degrees in Law and in Philosophy at de Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He also graduated with a degree in Sociology at Instituto de Estudios Políticos, Madrid.
Carlos Rodrigues Gesualdi is an Argentinean writer, teacher, lecturer and translator living in Germany, author of children’s novels and of stories published in various countries. His novel "Raros Peinados" is a classic in Argentina.
Griselda Gambaro is an Argentine writer, whose novels, plays, short stories, story tales, essays and novels for teenagers often concern the political violence in her home country that would develop into the Dirty War. One recurring theme is the desaparecidos and the attempts to recover their bodies and memorialize them. Her novel Ganarse la muerte was banned by the government because of the obvious political message.
The Alfaguara Novel Prize is a Spanish-language literary award. The award is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language. It includes a prize of US$175,000 making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world. It is sponsored by Alfaguara, a publisher owned by Penguin Random House.
Carlos María Domínguez is an Argentine writer and journalist who has lived in Montevideo since 1989.
Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province. She has won numerous literary prizes, among them the German LiBeraturpreis for Elena Sabe and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Las grietas de Jara.
Leopoldo Brizuela was an Argentine journalist, writer and translator. He was born in La Plata in 1963.
José Edmundo Paz-Soldán Ávila is a Bolivian writer. His work is a prominent example of the Latin American literary movement known as McOndo, in which the magical realism of previous Latin American authors is supplanted by modern realism, often with a technological focus. His work has won several awards. He has lived in the United States since 1991, and has taught literature at Cornell University since 1997.
Gustavo Rodríguez Vela is a Peruvian writer and communication expert, author of several novels and story books.
Michael James Wilson is an American-Argentine writer based in Chile. He achieved critical acclaim and received the Critics' and National Council of Culture and the Arts awards in 2014 for his fifth novel, Leñador (2013).
Dora Varona Gil was a Cuban-Peruvian poet, narrator, and missionary. After the death of her husband, Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría, she compiled, edited, and studied his work.
The Ariston Club is a building in Mar del Plata, Argentina designed by Marcel Breuer. It is part of the Modern Movement, and complies with four of the five Le Corbusier's Points of Architecture: pilotis, free designing of the floor plan, free designing of the façade, horizontal windows.
The Premio Clarín de Novela is a prize for literature in the Spanish language awarded annually by Grupo Clarín. It was created in 1998 and its first awardee was Pedro Mairal. The winner receives 300,000 pesos ($) and the publication of his/her novel by the Clarín Alfaguara label. It is one of the most prestigious literary contests in Latin America. Writers from all over the world participate every year with unpublished works written in Spanish.
Marcial Gala is a Cuban writer, poet, and architect, who has received numerous prizes for his literary works.
