Federico Jorge Jiménez Losantos, also known by his initials FJL, is a Spanish radio presenter and right wing pundit, being most known for his successful radio talk show Es la mañana de Federico. He is also a TV host and literary and non-fiction author. A member of extreme left organizations and participant in the Barcelona's counter-cultural scene in the 1970s, he experienced a radical rightward drift, eventually becoming a journalistic guru for a far right audience.
Francisco Ayala García-Duarte was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.
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.
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí is a contemporary writer, videoartist and documentary photographer.
José María Merino is a Spanish novelist born in A Coruña, Galicia on 5 March 1941. He is the father of two daughters, María and Ana, both of them university professors. He lived for several years in León and currently lives in Madrid. Best known for his novels and short stories, he is also a poet and a travel writer.
Piedad Bonnett Vélez is a Colombian poet, playwright and novelist.
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.
Noé Jitrik was born in Argentina in 1928 and is one of Latin America's foremost literary critics. He is director of the Instituto de literatura hispanoamericana at the University of Buenos Aires, and was a notable participant in the cultural journal Contorno in the 1950s in Argentina.
Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish author. He has authored several award-winning books that mix genres and has been branded as one of the most original and prominent writers in the Spanish language.
Adriano González León was a Venezuelan writer who is known in his country for the novel País Portátil (1968), widely regarded as the premier Venezuelan novel of the latter half of the 20th century, and for his many years of hosting a television program dedicated to promoting literary appreciation among the general public.
Martí de Riquer i Morera, 8th Count of Casa Dávalos was a Spanish–Catalan literary historian and Romance philologist, a recognised international authority in the field. His writing career lasted from 1934 to 2004. He was also a nobleman and Grandee of Spain.
Clara Sánchez is a Spanish novelist. Among other literary awards, Sánchez won the 2013 Premio Planeta de Novela for her novel El cielo ha vuelto.
Juan Carlos Chirinos García is a Venezuelan writer and creative writing teacher. He is a novelist, story writer and biographer.
José Edmundo Paz-Soldán Ávila is a Bolivian writer. His work is a prominent example of the Latin American literary movement known as McOndo, in which the magical realism of previous Latin American authors is supplanted by modern realism, often with a technological focus. His work has won several awards. He has lived in the United States since 1991, and has taught literature at Cornell University since 1997.
Use Lahoz is a Spanish writer of Historical Fiction. He has lived in many countries for study or work, including Portugal, Germany, Italy, Uruguay, Cuba and France, where he works as a teacher at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He is a regular contributor to Radio Nacional de España and El País, as well as other national and Latin American media. His journalistic work has been awarded with the Pica d’Estats Prize in 2011.
Alejandra Costamagna Crivelli is a Chilean writer and journalist.
Patricio Jara Álvarez is a Chilean writer and journalist.
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias is a Cuban poet, playwright, and short story writer. Her work is often characterized by absurdist humor and playfully perverse observations of everyday life in contemporary Cuba and Miami, as well as cross-genre experimentation with prose poetry and narrative poetry. Four of her poems, in the original Spanish and in English translation, were featured in The Kenyon Review's 2018 special issue on new Cuban poetry.
Mercedes Cebrián is a Spanish writer and translator.
José Carlos Mainer Baqué is a Spanish historian of literature and literary critic, Professor Emeritus of the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR). He is credited for his interdisciplinary scholar work intermingling studies on cultural and literary history.
