Jorge Consiglio (born 1962) is an Argentine poet, novelist and writer. He was born in Buenos Aires and studied at the University of Buenos Aires. He has published four novels, and has won numerous literary prizes in Argentina and Spain. He has also published several volumes of short stories and poetry. The short story collection Villa del Parque has been translated into English under the title Southerly. [1]
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.
Fernando Sorrentino is an Argentine writer. His works have been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tamil, Kannada, Persian and Kabyle.
Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, who normally went only by his surname, Fogwill, was an Argentine short story writer, novelist, and businessman. He was a distant relative of the novelist Charles Langbridge Morgan. He was the author of Malvinas Requiem, one of the first narratives to deal with the Falklands War. Fogwill died on August 21, 2010, from a pulmonary dysfunction.
Diamela Eltit is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the National Prize for Literature.
César Aira is an Argentinian writer and translator, and an exponent of contemporary Argentinian literature. Aira has published over a hundred short books of stories, novels and essays. In fact, at least since 1993, a hallmark of his work is a truly frenetic level of writing and publication—two to five novella-length books each year. He has lectured at the University of Buenos Aires, on Copi and Arthur Rimbaud, and at the University of Rosario on Constructivism and Stéphane Mallarmé, and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela.
Manuel Mujica Lainez was an Argentine novelist, essayist, translator and art critic.
Alicia Kozameh is an Argentine novelist, short story writer and poet, and Professor in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English, at Chapman University in Southern California. Kozameh has published seven novels, a collection of short stories and six books of poetry. She has also edited two anthologies and wrote a book in collaboration with other authors, former political prisoners from the last Argentine military dictatorship in her country.
Arturo Carrera is an Argentine poet.
Susana Calandrelli was an Argentine writer and teacher.
Luisa Peluffo is an Argentine writer and journalist.
Roberto Jorge Santoro was an Argentine poet, publisher and political activist. Santoro created a literary journal and was active with other journals.
Selva Casal was a Uruguayan poet.
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.
Lina Meruane Boza is a Chilean writer and professor. Her work, written in Spanish, has been translated into English, Italian, Portuguese, German, and French. In 2011 she won the Anna Seghers-Preis for the quality of her work, and in 2012 the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her novel Sangre en el ojo.
Paulina Vinderman is an Argentine poet and translator.
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is an Argentine writer and journalist. She is considered one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Argentine and Latin American literature, apart from being a well-known intellectual, and a feminist and environmentalist.
Luis Sagasti is an Argentine writer and art critic. He was born in Bahía Blanca and studied history at the Universidad Nacional del Sur where he now teaches. He worked for eight years as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bahía Blanca. He published his first novel in 1999, and is best known for his 2011 novel Bellas Artes which was translated into English as Fireflies.
Selva Almada is an Argentine writer of poetry, short stories, and novels. She expanded into nonfiction in 2014 with the book Chicas muertas.
Lily Sosa de Newton was an Argentine historian, biographer and essayist. She was a pioneer in historical research on Argentine women in different fields. She also wrote numerous biographies of historical figures.
Ana Arzoumanian is an Argentine lawyer, writer, poet, and translator.