Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine, naturalised French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
Juan Carlos Onetti Borges was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.
Roberto Arlt was an Argentine novelist, storyteller, playwright, journalist and inventor.
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.
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco — born Alfredo Pareja y Díez Canseco — was a prominent Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, journalist, historian and diplomat. An innovator of the 20th-century Latin American novel, he was a founding member of the literary Grupo de Guayaquil, which brought a new emphasis to realistic novels.
Manuel Mujica Lainez was an Argentine novelist, essayist and art critic.
Ricardo Güiraldes was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos.
Luis (Leopoldo) Franco was an Argentine autodidact, a self-made intellectual, essayist, and poet.
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.
Sergio Olguín is an Argentine author, journalist and literary critic born on 29 January 1967 in Buenos Aires. Whereas most of the novels that he has published to date can be categorised as youth literature, he has also published stories and novels that do not fall in this category.
The Seven Madmen is a 1973 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and starring Alfredo Alcón, Norma Aleandro and Héctor Alterio. It was based on the novels Los siete locos and Los lanzallamas, by Roberto Arlt. The film was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award.
Jorge B. Rivera (1935–2004) was an Argentine poet, essayist, critic, journalist and researcher on issues of history and popular culture. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1935 and died on August 27, 2004. He is considered a pioneer in research in mass communication in Argentina.
Natalio Félix Botana Miralles, was an Uruguayan journalist and entrepreneur who founded the Argentine newspaper Crítica in 1913. Published until 1962, Crítica was the most widely circulated newspaper in Latin America.
El mejor papá del mundo is a 1941 black and white Argentine drama. It explores a son's gradual realization that his father is far from perfect, and also conveys a message hostile to global capitalism.
Marta Lynch was the pseudonym of Marta Lía Frigerio, an Argentine writer. She wrote seven novels and nine collections of short prose.
Ernesto Mallo is an Argentine writer. He was born in La Plata in the province of Buenos Aires. He has published in a wide variety of genres including stage plays, cinema scripts, essays and short stories. However, he is best known for his novels, the first of which appeared in 2006. Since then, he has published several more novels.
Electra Mirta Arlt was an Argentine writer, translator, professor and researcher specializing in theater. She was the daughter of the writer, Roberto Arlt.
Syria Poletti was an Argentine writer who specialized in children's literature.
Feminaria was a feminist theory magazine published in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1988 to 2007. It included essays, bibliographies, notes, interviews, and sections on women and the media.
Nadia Fink is an Argentine author, journalist, and editor known for writing the works in the Anti-Princess Series of picture book biographies of Latin American women. After studying proofreading, she worked as a copyeditor at the magazine Sudestada, and later as a writer. An interest in countering what she perceived as harmful gender roles in children's literature led Fink to cofound the independent publisher Chirimbote and create the Anti-Princess Series in 2015.
