Juan Carlos Onetti Borges was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.
José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas’s living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11. First, he lived in the Indigenous servant quarters of his stepmother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an Indigenous family approved by his father. Arguedas wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).
Leonese is a set of vernacular Romance language varieties currently spoken in northern and western portions of the historical region of León in Spain, the village of Riudenore and Guadramil in Portugal, sometimes considered another language. In the past, it was spoken in a wider area, including most of the historical region of Leon. The current number of Leonese speakers is estimated at 20,000 to 50,000. Spanish is now the predominant language in the area.
Francisco Massiani was a Venezuelan writer and painter. His first novel, Piedra de mar has been a bestseller since its publication. It's a Bildungsroman of a middle class teenager in Caracas. Massiani, won the Municipal Prize of Prose in 1998, and in 2005, the V annual contest of the Fundación para la Cultura Urbana, for the storybook Florencio y los pajaritos de Angelina, su mujer. In 2006, he published his first book of poetry. In 2012 he won the National Prize for Literature, as a recognition to his entire body of work.
Cuento is a Spanish word meaning literally "story" or "tale". Cuento may specifically refer to folk tales, a category of folklore that includes stories passed down through oral tradition. The word cuento may also be used as a verb to say "tell", as if you are "telling" a story ("Cuento").
The Bird of Truth is a Spanish fairy tale collected by Cecilia Böhl de Faber in her Cuentos de encantamiento. Andrew Lang included it in The Orange Fairy Book.
Hispanidad is a Spanish term describing a shared cultural, linguistic, or political identity among speakers of the Spanish language or members of the Hispanic diaspora. The term can have various, different implications and meanings depending on the regional, socio-political, or cultural context in which it is used.
Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel is a Spanish writer. He studied philosophy and is the author of the essay 'A History of Lying'. He's also well known in his native country for his short stories and his novels, including El asesino hipocondríaco and El gran imaginador . His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Greek, Finnish, Turkish, Arabic and Russian, and published in more than a dozen countries.
José María Sacristán Turiégano, better known as José Sacristán, is a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor.
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.
Rafael Llopis Paret, was a Spanish psychiatrist, essayist and translator, who specialized in fantasy and horror fiction.
Inés Marful, also known as Inés Marful Amor, is a Spanish scholar, writer, and visual artist from Asturias, known for her scholarly work about Federico García Lorca. Her novel Cuatro Cuentos de Amor y El Intocable Absurdo won the 2008 Casino Mieres Novel Award.
Juan Carlos Chirinos García is a Venezuelan writer and creative writing teacher. He is a novelist, story writer and biographer. Since 2023, he is corresponding member of the Academia Venezolana de la Lengua.
Antonio Dechent is a Spanish actor. Born in Seville, he is specialised in supporting roles.
Spanish Paralympic Committee is a Spanish non-profit sport organisation founded in 1995, that oversees five national disability sport federations. The organisation has a Secretary General and a President. Since 2005, they have been supported by Plan ADO. In 2000, the CPE was involved in a cheating scandal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.
Enrico Mario Santí is a Cuban-American writer, poet, and scholar of Spanish American Literature known for his critical essays and annotated editions of Latin American classics, including works by Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. A frequent political commentator and art critic, he is also a sculptor and voice actor. As a child, Santí emigrated from Cuba to the United States, where he has had an extensive career as a professor in several universities. Currently, he is a research professor at Claremont Graduate University, in Claremont, California.
"Orientation of Cats" is a short story contained in the collection We Love Glenda So Much written by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar and published in 1980. The story portrays the relationship between Alana, the narrator, and their cat Osiris. It touches topics such as jealousy, curiosity and love.
Mario Martín Gijón is a Spanish writer, poet and literary critic.
