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.
José Gabriel Severino, better known by his stage name El Jeffrey, is a merengue artist from the Dominican Republic. A major album of his is "Mi Vida". El Jeffrey first became a household name with the 80's merengue group La Artillería.
Ismael Serrano is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Spain, popular in Spain and Latin America, known for his often political lyrics and eclectic musical influences. During his creative career he has been influenced by other Spanish singer-songwriters such as Joaquín Sabina, Joan Manuel Serrat and the Cuban Silvio Rodríguez amongst others. His music also shows influences from renowned poets such as Luis García Montero and Mario Benedetti.
Alejandro Wiebe, also known as Marley, is an Argentine television host, comedian and producer.
María Teresa Chacín, is a Venezuelan singer. She has recorded over 50 albums. She has received honors including Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Children's Album, Guaicaipuro de Oro, Meridiano de Oro, Cardenal de Oro, Gran Sol de Oriente, Idolo de Plata, Mara de Oro, Canaima de Oro, and the award Escenario Juvenil.
Parchís was a children's music group from Spain which enjoyed great success in the Spanish-speaking world in the 1980s. Their significance in Hispanic popular culture comes from being perceived as an archetype of this type of band at the time. Parchís' original five members were Constantino Fernández Fernández, Yolanda Ventura Román, Oscar Ferrer Cañadas, Gemma Prat Termens, and David Muñoz Forcada. After several line-up changes, the group disbanded in 1985 with various members continuing successful careers in the world of entertainment.
Lucio Godoy is a Spanish-Argentine film composer and music producer.
Ana María Picchio is an Argentine actress.
Marta Hazas Cuesta is a Spanish actress.
Francisco Amado Córdova Ramírez was a Mexican character actor who has appeared in numerous films of United States and Mexico.
María de la Encarnación Gertrudis Jacoba Aragoneses y de Urquijo was a Spanish author of children's literature who wrote under the pen name Elena Fortún. She became famous for Celia, lo que dice the first in the series of children's novels which were a collection of short stories first published in magazines in 1929. The series were both popular and successful during the time of their publications and are today considered classics of Spanish literature.
José Miguel Vilar-Bou is a contemporary Spanish novelist, short story writer, and journalist, specializing in horror fiction, science-fiction and fantasy. His work has been awarded with several prizes in literary competitions. His novel Alarido de Dios [The Cry of God] was a finalist for the Awards Celsius 2010 and his short story "El laberinto de la araña" ["The Spider's Labyrinth"] received in the same year the Nocte Award for the best Spanish horror story. In the Spanish Historia natural de los cuentos de miedo [Natural History of the Weird Tales], because of the "expeditious and accurate in its proposal", critic José L. Fernández Arellano mentioned this author's story "La luz encendida" as leading among the young writers' of the genre of horror in Spain.
Eduardo Alfredo Sacheri is an Argentine writer and professor of History, graduated in the National University of Luján. He is best known for his novel La pregunta de sus ojos which became the basis for the Oscar-winning film El secreto de sus ojos and its American remake. Sacheri co-wrote the film's script in collaboration with its director Juan Jose Campanella. Sacheri and Campanella were also the screenwriters of the animation film Underdogs. He also published a number of short stories, such as Esperándolo a Tito y otros cuentos de fútbol and Lo raro empezó después.
Pilar Urbano Casaña is a Spanish journalist and writer.
This is a list of Spanish television related events in 1971.
This is a list of Spanish television related events in 1989.
Las voladoras is a book of short stories by Ecuadorian writer Mónica Ojeda, published for the first time in 2020 by publishing house Páginas de Espuma. The book is composed of eight stories that take place in Andean settings which are marked by mysticism, violence, ancestral rites, and horror, in a style that the author herself defined as Andean gothic. Some of the themes she addresses include: feminicides, domestic violence, grief, child abuse, forbidden love, and abortion, among others.
