WRITERS

Carlos Fuentes was born in a November day, in 1928. Mexican novelist (short-story writer, playwright, critic, and diplomat), he traveled with his family in North and South America and in Europe. As a young man, he studied law at the University of Mexico in Mexico City and later attended the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Geneva. Rebelling against his …

Romulo Gallegos (1884) 1969), novelist and Venezuelan politician, made university studies of Surveying and Law at the Central University of their country, but did not finish them. He railroad employee and teacher in private schools, became deputy director of the Normal School and director of the Liceo de Caracas. In his early narrator, Gallegos published Adventurers (a collection of stories). …

Augusto Roa Bastos es quizá el escritor paraguayo más conocido en el mundo (uno de los protagonistas de la narrativa lationoamericana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX). Escribió casi toda su obra en el exilio. Se estableció en Francia, donde ejerció el periodismo y la docencia universitaria. La obra de Roa Bastos se caracteriza por armonizar el legado guaraní …

The first books that he read (from the library of his father, a man of wide-ranging intellect who taught at an English school), included The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His family, which had been notable in Argentine history, included British ancestry, and he learned English before Spanish. His first published book …

The name Sagan, was chosen because it is a character of Proust’s Recherche (Princess Sagan). Françoise Quoirez is the daughter of a southern middle class family-east of France. Françoise Sagan, begins very young to write short services from Italy, who had the title Bonjour Napoli, Bonjour Venice, title that already resembles that of her first great success as a novelist, …

She is the niece of former Chilean president Salvador Allende. Isabel Allende is a Chilean author best known for penning novels in the style of magical realism. She born on August day, in 1942, in Peru. Allende’s novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements …

When Redfield self-published his first novel, the immediate interest from booksellers and readers made The Celestine Prophecy one of the most successful self-published books of all time. As a young man, he studied Eastern philosophies, including Taoism and Zen, while majoring in sociology at Auburn University. James Redfield was 43 when he published The Celestine Prophecy. Born in 1950, he …

Amado’s popularity as a writer has never declined. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil, and that image is marked by religious syncretism. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers (with his work having been translated into some 49 languages). Jorge Amado was born on a farm near the inland city of Itabuna (south of the …

He became blind by the age of 55, becaming unable to read, but his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. His works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges, was an Argentine writer and poet. His best-known books, Fictions and The Aleph, are compilations of short stories interconnected …

His works are epic historical novels (always characterized by hallucinatory realism), and containing elements of black humor. Guan Moye (better known by the pen name Mo Yan), is a Chinese novelist. He was born in 1955, in Gaomi County in Shandong province to a family of farmers, and was 11 years old when the Cultural Revolution was launched. At the …