The 2004 Copa América was the 41st edition of the Copa América, the South-American championship for international association football teams. The competition was organized by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body, and was held in Peru, who hosted the tournament for the sixth time, from 6 to 25 July.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín, and used Guillermo Cain for the screenplay of the cult classic film Vanishing Point (1971).
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist best known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento.
Víctor Manuel Ruiz Velázquez, known professionally as Víctor Manuelle, is a successful Latin Grammy nominated American salsa singer, known to his fans as El Sonero de la Juventud. He is identified primarily with salsa romantica or "salsa monga". Victor Manuel has neither recorded in English, nor made a Latin pop album, nor ventured into acting, preferring to remain a musician grounded within salsa music.
Solas is a 1999 Spanish film written and directed by Benito Zambrano.
Alice Vieira is a Portuguese children's book author.
Rosa Regàs is a spanish writer and novelist. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela and the Premio Nadal.
Premio Lo Nuestro 2005 nominees were announced during a press conference on December 2, 2004 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. The hottest names in Latin music make up the list of nominees for the longest running and most popular Latin music award program in the U.S.
Ana Miralles is a Spanish comic books artist, known particularly for her treatment of erotic subjects.
Rosa Lobato de Faria was a Portuguese actress and writer whose career encompassed a variety of media including acting, scriptwriting, literature and songwriting.
Lúcia Benedetti – was a Brazilian storyteller, writer of Children's Literature, novelist, playwright, chronicler and translator.
The National Music Award is one of Spain's annual National Awards awarded by the Ministry of Culture.
Sabina Berman Goldberg is a writer and journalist. Her work deals mainly with issues related to diversity and its obstacles. She is a four-time winner of the National Playwriting Award in Mexico and has twice won the National Journalism Award. Her plays have been staged in Canada, North America, Latin America, and Europe. Her novel, Me has been translated into 11 languages and published in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, the United States, England, and Israel.
Francisco Brines Bañó is a Spanish poet. He was born in Oliva (Valencia). He is regarded as one of the Generation of '50 of Spanish poets, along with Claudio Rodríguez, Jaime Gil de Biedma and Ángel González.
Juana Rosa Pita is a poet, writer, editor and translator. She was born in Havana on December 8, 1939. She left Cuba in 1961. Since then she has lived in many cities, including Washington, Caracas, Madrid, New Orleans, Miami, and Boston, where she currently resides. From 1989 to 1992 she was Visiting Professor at Tulane University. She is considered one of the most important contemporary Cuban and Latin American poets. The late Nicaraguan poet Pablo Antonio Cuadra hailed her as "one of the outstanding voices of Cuba’s pilgrim culture. Book after book Juana Rosa Pita has been creating a mysterious realm of love and prophecy: an island of enchantment where words restore all that hatred turned to ashes".
Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and astrologer.
Dulce María González was a Mexican writer and educator. In 2003, she was awarded the UNAL's Premio a las Artes for her work.
Chela Ruiz (5 June 1921 - 1 December 1999) was an Argentine actress. Her career spanned radio, film, television and stage, and in 1997 the Argentine Association of Actors awarded her the prestigious Premio Podestá for her theatrical work.
Silviano Santiago is a Brazilian writer, literary critic, essayist and scholar.
Asunción Sánchez Abellán, known as Susi Sánchez, is a Spanish theater, film, and television actress.
