Pedro Armendáriz Bohr, better known by his stage name Pedro Armendáriz Jr., was a Mexican actor who made films and television series from the United States and Mexico.
Julio Méndez Alemán was a Mexican actor.
Leopoldo Dante Tévez, known as Leo Dan, is an Argentine composer and singer born in Villa Atamisqui, Santiago del Estero Province. He recorded more than 20 albums during his long career during the late 20th century between Argentina and Mexico. His appreciation for Mexican music led him to record with mariachis, and from there he went to international fame. His music was well received by the Mexican public since his voice was a good match to the traditional mariachi sound.
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.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela was a Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works.
The Xavier Villaurrutia Award is a prestigious literary prize given in Mexico, to a Latin American writer published in Mexico. Founded in 1955, it was named in memory of Xavier Villaurrutia.
Arturo Carrera is an Argentine poet born on 27 March 1948 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province.
Álvaro Pombo García de los Ríos is a Spanish poet, novelist and activist.
Francisco de Asís Monterde García Icazbalceta was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years. He was an important promoter of the arts and culture in Mexico in the years following the Revolution.
Ana José Nacho is a compilation album by the group Mecano. It was released in 1998, and was produced by the group itself. There are two editions: Spain and France. It includes 8 new songs by the brothers Cano: José and Nacho; these tracks were recorded in CTS Studios and Belsize Park in London; and Red Led and Eurosonic in Madrid.
Hilario Barrero is a Spanish writer, translator, professor and poet. He also is a columnist with Fifth Column in The New York Times.
Victoria Onetto is an Argentine actress who worked in many soap operas and films.
Sonia Silvestre was a Dominican singer from San Pedro de Macorís.
Fernando Iwasaki Cauti is a Peruvian writer and historian. Born into a family with multiple roots. While in Peru, he taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima. Since 1989, he has lived in Seville.
Fernando Soto Aparicio was a Colombian poet, storyteller, playwright, novelist, librettist, and screenwriter. He was born in Socha, in the Department of Boyacá. Fernando Soto Aparicio spent his childhood in Santa Rosa de Viterbo. He is remembered for the novel The rebellion of the rats. After several decades as a professor at various universities in the country, in 1961 he was exalted with the prize Selecciones Lengua Española, in 1970 he received the Casa de las Américas Prize, and a year later, the prize City of Murcia. In total, he wrote about 70 literary works, among them novels, poems, books of short stories, as well as theatre plays.
Luisa Etxenike is an author from the Basque Country. She has published several novels, short story collections, plays and a poetry collection. She had a weekly column on culture and politics in the Spanish newspaper, El País. In 2009, Etxenike received the Basque literary award ''Premio Euskadi de Literatura'' for her novel El ángulo ciego. Fluent in Spanish, French and English, she has translated the works of several French authors, including the filmmaker Claude Lanzmann
Patricio Jara Álvarez is a Chilean writer and journalist.
Antonio Ferres Bugeda was a Spanish writer and poet, belonging to the so-called Generación del Cincuenta. Several of his works were banned in Spain. Many of his works have been translated into several languages.
