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Mario Satz (full natural name: Mario Norberto Satz Tetelbaum) is a Spanish language poet, novelist, essayist and translator, who became famous in Spanish literary circles as a lecturer and seminar leader.
He was born in the district of Coronel Pringles, in the Province of Buenos Aires in 1944, within a family of Jewish origin. After completing high school in Argentina, made long journeys through South America, USA and Europe. Between 1970 and 1973 lived in Jerusalem, studying the Jewish Kabbalah, the Christian Bible and Anthropology and the History of the Middle East.
In 1977 he gained a scholarship in Florence from the Italian government to investigate Renaissance humanism of the work of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
In 1978 while living in Barcelona he obtained Spanish citizenship and graduated in Hispanic Studies. Besides writing a dozen essays, he is the author of several books of poems. He currently lives in Spain.
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Ricardo E. Alegría Gallardo was a Puerto Rican scholar, cultural anthropologist and archaeologist known as the "father of modern Puerto Rican archaeology".
Miguel Delibes SetiénMML was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
Alejandro Carrión Aguirre was a poet, novelist and journalist. He wrote the novel La espina (1959), the short story book La manzana dañada (1983), and numerous poetry books. As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym "Juan Sin Cielo." In 1956 he founded, along with Pedro Jorge Vera, the political magazine La Calle. He directed the literary magazine Letras del Ecuador. He received the Maria Moors Cabot prize (1961) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo (1981) for his body of work. He was the nephew of Benjamín Carrión and Clodoveo Carrión.
Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta. It has been awarded every year on 6 January since 1944. The Josep Pla Award for Catalan literature is given at the same ceremony.
Jesús Silva-Herzog Flores, born as Jesús Silva y Flores was a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1986), as ambassador to Spain (1991–1994) and the United States (1995–1997), and as secretary of Tourism (1994) in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Myriam Moscona is a Mexican journalist, translator and poet in Ladino and Spanish languages who comes from a Bulgarian Sephardi Jewish family. She teaches at Miami University. She was the artist in-residence from the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2000.
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the country's progressive sectors. His generation of writers includes Elena Poniatowska, José Emilio Pacheco, and Carlos Fuentes. Monsiváis won more than 33 awards, including the 1986 Jorge Cuesta Prize, the 1989 Mazatlán Prize, and the 1996 Xavier Villaurrutia Award. Considered a leading intellectual of his time, Monsiváis documented contemporary Mexican themes, values, class struggles, and societal change in his essays, books and opinion pieces. He was a staunch critic of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), leaned towards the left-wing, and was ubiquitous in disseminating his views on radio and television. As a founding member of "Gatos Olvidados", Monsiváis wanted his and other "forgotten cats" to be provided for beyond his lifetime.
Chantal Maillard is a contemporary Spanish poet and philosopher.
María Amparo Rivelles Ladrón de GuevaraMML, better known as Amparo Rivelles, was a Spanish actress.
César Vidal Manzanares, born 1958 in Madrid, is a Spanish radio host, lawyer and author. He has a PhD in Law in Alfonso X El Sabio University, in Theology and Philosophy by Logos University, where he is a member of the Board of Regents. He is also a member of the Executive Council of the Inter-American Institute for Democracy. He is also member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española since 2015. He has been collaborator of several media, as El Mundo, Diario 16, Periodico de Aragon and La Razón. He hosted the radio show La Linterna on Cadena COPE from 2004 to 2009. That year he quit COPE to launch with Federico Jiménez Losantos a liberal radio, esRadio. In 2013 he abandoned that project too, due to disagreements with Federico Jiménez Losantos.[5] Since 2014 he is the host of La Voz, a radio program broadcast from U.S.A, that has an international daily audience of over 600.000.
Fernando Cabrera is a Dominican-American poet, essayist, visual artist, songwriter and professor. He is a National Poetry and Literary Essay Prize Winner.
Mario Opazo is a Colombian video, installation and performance artist. He was born in Tomé, Chile and became a political exile after Pinochet came to power.
The University of El Salvador or Universidad de El Salvador (UES) is the oldest and the most prominent university institution in El Salvador. It serves as the national university of the country. The main campus, Ciudad Universitaria, is located in the capital of San Salvador, but there are also branches of the university in other Salvadoran cities such as Santa Ana, San Miguel and San Vicente. The university counts with a total of 9 faculties in its main campus and has a student population of more than 50,000.
José Bergamín Gutiérrez was a Spanish writer, essayist, poet, and playwright. His father served as president of the canton of Málaga; his mother was a Catholic. Bergamín was influenced by both politics and religion and attempted to reconcile Communism and Catholicism throughout his life, remarking "I would die supporting the Communists, but no further than that."
Cristo Rey is a sector in the city of Santo Domingo in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic. The neighbourhood is populated by the lower middle class. This heavily populated area was formed in the last major resettlement for industrious peasants mostly coming from the North of the country, especially around 1970–1974, when the National Zoo was built on the Arroyo Riverside.
Eliane René Schianni Bidart, was an Argentine tango singer, actress and dancer.
Esther Seligson was a Mexican writer, poet, translator, and historian. She was an academic, with a wide range of interests including art, cultural history, Jewish philosophy, mythology, religion and theater. She published books, poems, short stories and translations. She won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize and the Magda Donato Award for her literary contributions.
María Esther de Miguel was an Argentinian writer.
Fénix Cooperativa Cinematográfica is a Spanish production company based in Madrid known for The Lady Doctor (1958).
Guadalupe Dueñas was a 20th-century Mexican short story writer and essayist.
