Roberto Fernández Retamar was a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also served on the Council of State of Cuba. An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he was a central figure in Cuba from the 1959 Revolution until his death in 2019. Fernández also wrote over a dozen major collections of verse and founded the Casa de las Americas cultural magazine.
Ana Merino is a Spanish poet.
Soledad Fariña Vicuña is a Chilean poet.
Consuelo Hernández is a Colombian American poet, scholar, literary critic and associate professor of Latin American studies at American University since 1995.
The School Day of Non-violence and Peace is an observance founded by the Spanish poet Llorenç Vidal Vidal in Majorca in 1964 as a starting point and support for a pacifying and non-violent education of a permanent character. Different as the first proposed by the UNESCO "Armistice Day" in 1948, DENIP is observed on January 30 or thereabouts every year, on the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi, in schools all over the world. In countries with a Southern Hemisphere school calendar, it can be observed on 30 March. Its basic and permanent message is: "Universal love, non-violence and peace. Universal love is better than egoism, non-violence is better than violence, and peace is better than war". In Navarra the slogan for the 2009 was "above all, we are friends".
Manuel del Cabral was a Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat. The son of Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez, an influential senator during the "Era of Trujillo", he served at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic to Argentina. During his long stay in Buenos Aires, he married an Argentine and fathered his 4 children, among them, the television journalist and politician Peggy Cabral. In 1992 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura.
Goya Gutiérrez is a Spanish poet and writer.
Beatriz Villacañas is a poet, essayist and literary critic.
Juan Antonio Villacañas was a Spanish poet, essayist and critic. In 2015, he was named distinguished son of the city of Toledo.
José Antonio Mazzotti is a Peruvian poet, scholar, and literary activist. He is Professor of Latin American Literature and King Felipe VI of Spain Professor of Spanish Culture and Civilization in the Department of Romance Studies at Tufts University, President of the International Association of Peruvianists since 1996, and Director of the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana since 2010. He is considered an expert in Latin American colonial literature, especially in El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and the formation of criollo cultures, a critic of Latin American contemporary poetry, and a prominent member of the Peruvian 1980s literary generation. He received the José Lezama Lima special poetry prize from Casa de las Américas, Cuba, in 2018, for his collection El zorro y la luna. Poemas reunidos, 1981-2016.
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.
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is a Cuban poet, journalist, literary critic and translator.
Julieta Valero is a Spanish poet who writes in Spanish.
María Teresa Espasa Moltó is a Spanish Valencian poet, essayist and professor. She was born in Dénia, Marina Alta, Alicante) in the middle of the 20th century. She is known for her intense and animated literary and cultural style developed during the talk show "La Buhardilla" and through the magazine, Corondel.
Hugo Mujica is an Argentine Catholic priest, poet, writer, and former Trappist monk.
Pilar Paz Pasamar was a Spanish poet and writer whose work has been translated into Italian, Arabic, French, English and Chinese. She was a member of the Cádiz branch of the 1950s poetic generation. She was a member of the Real Academia Hispano Americana de Cádiz since 1963. Her awards and honors include second place from the Premio Adonáis de Poesía for "Los buenos días" (1954), Adoptive Daughter of the city of Cádiz (2005), Meridiana Prize of the Andalusian Institute of Women (2005), included in the section "Own Names" of the Instituto Cervantes, and Author of the Year by the Andalusian Center of Letters of the Junta de Andalucía (2015). The city council of her hometown annually awards the Pilar Paz Pasamar Prize for short stories and poetry by women.
Raúl Alfonso Allain Vega is a Peruvian writer, poet, editor and sociologist.
Martha Madrigal Castillejos was a Mexican poet and storyteller. Among her works are Haikais (2000), Cónclave de signos, Antología poética (2020), and Me gusta escribir poesía. In 2014 she cooperated with flautist Horacio Franco to record Enamorada travesía, a dialog about love that combined the spoken language and the flute.
Manuel Álvarez Ortega was a Spanish poet, translator, writer, and veterinarian. He was the director and founder of the journal Aglae, which circulated between 1949 and 1954. He wrote many of his works in Madrid, the city where he lived starting in 1951.
Ramón Mauricio González Gutiérrez, known by his pen name José Baroja, is a Chilean writer, academic and editor. He is a member of the Poets of the World Movement, representative of the Neofantastic Short-story and the new Chilean narrative.
