Juan Ruiz, known as the Archpriest of Hita, was a medieval Castilian poet. He is best known for his ribald, earthy poem, Libro de buen amor.
Fernando Luján was a Mexican actor. He was a star of the silver screen in classic mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
José Antonio Villarrubia Jiménez-Momediano – known professionally as José Villarrubia – is a Spanish-American artist and art teacher who has done considerable work in the American comic book industry, particularly as a colorist.
AARGH was a 76-page one-off comics anthology published by Mad Love in 1988.
Clara Janés Nadal, born in Barcelona, is a Spanish writer of several literary genres. She is recognised as a poet and is distinguished as a translator of different central European and eastern languages. Since 2015 she occupied a seat in the Real Academia Española [1], becoming the tenth woman elected as a member of the RAE.
Eduardo Yáñez Luévano is a Mexican actor.
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.
Ana María Shua is an Argentine writer. She is particularly well known for her work in microfiction.
Ángela Becerra Acevedo is a Colombian writer. She has won several awards such as the Premio Fernando Lara de Novela in 2019, the Planeta-Casa de América Award in 2009, the Azorín Prize in 2005 and four Chicago Latin Literary Awards, as well as the Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa. Her works have been translated into 23 languages and published in more than 50 countries. She is one of the most widely read Spanish-speaking authors, the most read Colombian writer after Gabriel García Márquez, and considered the creator of the Magical Idealism.
Giuseppe Antonio Brunelli (1922-2016) was a contemporary Italian poet, essayist and translator residing in Florence, Italy, where he concluded his tenure at the University of Florence, teaching French Language and Literature from 1946 to 1994. He was born in Milan, Italy, and prior to moving to Florence lived in Catania (Sicily) and Messina.
Silvia Olmedo is a Spanish psychologist, sexologist, television host, producer and author. Considered one of the most influential psychologists in Spanishand on Latin television, she has worked in Spain, America, Britain, Netherlands, Australia and Mexico, where she currently hosts a television program named Terapia de Shock focused on educating people on psychology, sexology and health habits.
Amores verdaderos is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nicandro Díaz González for Televisa and premiered by Canal de las Estrellas in September 2012. It is based on the Mexican telenovela Amor en custodia, which was produced in 2005 by TV Azteca. It stars Erika Buenfil, Eduardo Yáñez, Eiza González and Sebastián Rulli.
Davide Cali is a Swiss-born Italian writer of picture books and graphic novels, primarily for children and young adults. He lives in Italy. His work has been published in 25 countries and translated into many languages. He also writes under the pseudonyms Taro Miyazawa and Daikon.
Rakim & Ken-Y is a reggaeton duo formed in 2003 by José Nieves (Rakim) and Kenny Vázquez (Ken-Y). The artists are renowned in the Latin music world for being the first to successfully fuse mainstream pop music with the reggaeton street rhythms of Puerto Rico and expose the style to a wide international audience. The sound introduced by Rakim & Ken-Y would go on to inspire the pop reggaeton songs of successful acts such as CNCO, J Balvin and Maluma. The duo had a very successful career with the Spanish speaking audience of Latin America, the United States and Spain until their separation in 2013. In June 2017, the duo announced their official return by Pina Records. In Mid 2020 the Duo have confirmed that the Duo have separated and are currently working on their solo projects.
Science fiction in Chile began in the late 19th century with the publication of the books El espejo del mundo in 1875 by the Englishman Benjamin Tallman, about the modernization of Valparaíso and Santiago, and in 1877 of Desde Jupiter by Francisco Miralles, which recounted a trip to the planet and back.
Coral Herrera Gómez is a Spanish feminist writer and communicator based in Costa Rica, known for her critique of the concept of romantic love and her contributions to queer studies.
Romana Guarnieri (1913-2003) was an Italian medievalist, responsible in 1946 for identifying Marguerite Porete as the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls.
Franco Loi was an Italian poet, writer, and essayist. He was born in Genoa, and died in Milan, aged 90. He made his debut in 1973 as a poet using dialect and had a good success with the work I cart, and the following year, 1974, with Poems of love. In 1975 the poet proves to have reached complete maturity of expression with the poem Stròlegh, published by Einaudi with a preface by Franco Fortini. In 1978 Einaudi published the collection Teater and in 1981 the work L'Angel followed by Edizioni San Marco dei Giustiniani. Also in 1981, thanks to the collection L'aria, he won the "Lanciano" national prize for dialectal poetry. In 2005 he published L'aria de la memoria for Einaudi, in which he collected all the poems written between 1973 and 2002. He has been Honorary President of the Contemporary Arts Centre of Cilento and Milan founded in 2019 by Menotti Lerro, and, starting from 2020, member of the Empathic School Movement / Empathism. In 2019 he won the Cilento Poetry Prize conferred to him at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
Tamara Kamenszain was an Argentine poet and essayist.
