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Latin American Writers
This is a list of some of the most important writers from Latin America, organized by cultural region and nationality. The focus is on Latin American literature. Andeans Bolivia * Alcides Arguedas (1879–1946), historian *Matilde Casazola *Javier del Granado (1913–1996), poet * Alfonso Gumucio Dagron * Víctor Montoya * Edmundo Paz Soldán (born 1967), novelist * Jaime Sáenz (1921–1986), poet and novelist * José Ignacio de Sanjinés (1786–1864), poet *Pedro Shimose * Gastón Suárez (1929–1984), novelist and dramatist * Franz Tamayo (1878–1956), poet *Adela Zamudio (1854–1928), poet and novelist Chile Colombia *Héctor Abad Faciolince, writer and journalist *Manuel Ancízar, writer and journalist *Gonzalo Arango, poet and novelist * Helena Araújo *Porfirio Barba-Jacob *Andrés Caicedo *James Cañón *Tomás Carrasquilla *Germán Castro Caycedo *Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize in Literature winner (1982) *Adolfo León Gómez, poet *León de Greiff * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cultural Region
In anthropology and geography, a cultural region, cultural sphere, cultural area or culture area refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities (culture). Such activities are often associated with an ethnolinguistic group and with the territory it inhabits. Specific cultures often do not limit their geographic coverage to the borders of a nation state, or to smaller subdivisions of a state. Cultural "spheres of influence" may also overlap or form concentric structures of macrocultures encompassing smaller local cultures. Different boundaries may also be drawn depending on the particular aspect of interest, such as religion and folklore ''vs''. dress and architecture ''vs''. language. History of concept A culture area is a concept in cultural anthropology in which a geographic region and time sequence ( age area) is characterized by substantially uniform environment and culture.ee also Americas (terminology)***Caribbean *** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Arteche
Miguel Salinas Arteche (4 June 1926 – 22 July 2012), best known as Miguel Arteche, the name he adopted after legally reversing his maternal and paternal surnames in 1972, was a Chilean poet and novelist. He was born in Nueva Imperial, Cautín, 9th Region, on June 4, 1926, but spent most of his adult life in Santiago, Chile working as an academic. He was also awarded government positions, both in Chile and abroad. His writings appeared first in the Anthology of the Generation of 1950, compiled by Enrique Lafourcade, a well-known Chilean writer. Biography He studied Law in the Universidad de Chile, but shortly dropped to study Literature at the Universidad de Madrid, Spain from 1951 to 1944. His work ranges from poetry to novels and short stories. In 1947 he published his first book, ''Invitación al olvido.'' After publishing a number of poetry books, he published ''Cantata del desterrado'' in 1951 before departing to Europe. The experience of living in Spain was fundamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Dorfman
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, since 1985. Background and education Dorfman was born in Buenos Aires on May 6, 1942, the son of Adolf Dorfman, who was born in Odessa (then Russian Empire) to a well-to-do Jewish family, and became a prominent Argentine professor of economics and the author of ''Historia de la Industria Argentina'', and Fanny Zelicovich Dorfman, who was born in Kishinev of Bessarabian Jewish descent. Shortly after his birth, they moved to the United States, where he spent his first ten years of childhood in New York until his family was forced to relocate due to political tensions. His family eventually settled in Chile in 1954. He attended and later worked as a professor at the University of Chile, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Donoso
José Manuel Donoso Yáñez (5 October 1924 – 7 December 1996), known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he said his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death. Donoso is the author of a number of short stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the Latin American Boom, Latin American literary boom. His best known works include the novels ''Coronación'' (''Coronation''), ''El lugar sin límites'' (''Hell Has No Limits'') and ''El obsceno pájaro de la noche'' (''The Obscene Bird of Night''). His works deal with a number of themes, including Human sexuality, sexuality, the duplicity of identity, psychology, and a sense of dark humor. Early li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Nolasco Cruz Vergara
Pedro Nolasco Cruz Vergara (April 18, 1857 – November 11, 1939) was a Chilean literary critic, novelist, writer, and politician. Early life Pedro Nolasco Cruz Vergara was born in Molina, Maule Region in central Chile. He was the son of Nicolás de la Cruz Donoso (1827–1860) and Elisa Martinez de Vergara y Loys. His mother was the eldest daughter of Chilean legislator Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano and Mercedes Vergara-Loys. He was the grandson of Vicente de La Cruz y Bahamonde the nephew and grandson of Nicolas de La Cruz y Bahamonde and Anselmo de La Cruz y Bahamonde. He had one sister, Elisa Cruz Vergara, who married Francisco Javier Sanchez Fresno in 1885. His paternal great-grandfather, Vicente de la Cruz y Bahamonde, was the brother of Nicolas de la Cruz y Bahamonde, the first Conde de Maule, and the Chilean Minister of Finance Anselmo de La Cruz y Bahamonde. Career He married Susana Correa Vergara (January 10, 1862 – January 31, 1953), his first cousin. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Cruz Vargas
Eugenio Cruz Vargas (Santiago, October 2, 1923 – Olmué, January 18, 2014) was a notable Chilean poet and painter. His art was developed under the naturalistic landscape and abstraction, and his collection of poems under the concepts of surrealism and culminate in the literary creationism.) Biography His parents were Pedro Nolasco Cruz Correa and Maria Vargas Bello, he was grandson of the literary critic Pedro Nolasco Cruz Vergara, great-grandson of Francisco Vargas Fontecilla and Vicente Correa Albano, and great-great-grandson of Andrés Bello López and Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano. He married on July 15, 1950 with Luz Vergara Errazuriz (July 10, 1927 – June 25, 2014), great-granddaughter of Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate and Juan Mackenna O'Reilly. Together they had 9 children; José Eugenio, Soledad, Juan José, Eduardo, Josefina, Isabel, Felipe, María de la Luz and Santiago. He studied at the Colegio San Ignacio, a jesuit school located in Santiago. Then he work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Couve
Adolfo Couve Rioseco (March 28, 1940 – March 11, 1998) was a Chilean artist and writer. Couve was born in Valparaíso, Chile, the first child of three. In his first years, he lived in Llay-Llay and then moved with his family to Santiago. He entered the Jesuit San Ignacio School, where he finished high school in 1958. Couve married Martita Carrasco with whom he had a daughter named Camila. The couple separated later. Adolfo Couve lived his last years accompanied by Carlos Ormeno. Couve began his art studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, where he was a pupil of Professor Augusto Eguiluz. He lived in Paris on a fellowship from 1962 to 1963. He studied at the Ecole de Beaux Arts. Later on he moved to New York and studied at the Art's Student League. In this last city, he had his first exhibition in an uptown gallery. Back in Chile, Couve became professor of art at the Universidad de Chile, where he taught until his death. He was also professor at the Pontificia Universidad C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Coloane
Francisco Coloane Cárdenas (; July 19, 1910 – August 5, 2002) was a Chilean novelist and short fiction writer whose works have been translated into many languages. Some of his books were adapted to theatre and film. Biography He was born in Quemchi, Chiloé Province, on the southern Chilean island of Chiloé, and his literary career expanded from ''Perros, Caballos y Hombres'' ("Dogs, Horses and Men") in 1935 to the publication of his memoirs ''Los Pasos del Hombre'' (''The Steps of Man'') in 2000. Among his most famous works (translated into English, French, Italian, Greek, German, Polish and Dutch) are: ''La Tierra del Fuego se Apagó'' (''Tierra del Fuego Has Burnt Out'', 1945), ''Golfo de Penas'' (''Gulf of Sorrow'', 1957), ''El Camino de la Ballena'' (''The Whale's Path'', 1962), ''El Guanaco Blanco'' (''The White Guanaco'', 1980), and ''El Corazón del Témpano'' (''The Heart of the Iceberg'', 1991). Coloane was awarded the ''Premio Nacional de Literatura'' (Chilean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Brunet
Marta Brunet (August 9, 1897 in Chillán, Chile – October 27, 1967 in Montevideo), was a Chilean writer. She was a recipient of the National Prize for Literature. Life and work She was the only child of Ambrosio Brunet Molina and his Spanish wife María Presentación Cáraves de Colosia. Her mother was a disabled person which led to Marta being largely taught at home by tutors. In her teen years she traveled to Europe with her parents and became influenced by the authors there. In 1923 her first novel appeared and was noted for its realistic portrayal of country life. By 1929 she lived in Santiago and had won a literary prize for a short story. Her writings began to involve urban life more after this and her 1946 work ''Humo hacia el sur'' moke on the Southern shore involving urban society, would be one of her most noted. Later she became second secretary to the Chilean embassy, but was asked to resign by the government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo General Carlos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Luisa Bombal
María Luisa Bombal Anthes (; Viña del Mar, 8 June 1910 – 6 May 1980) was a Chilean novelist and poet. Her work incorporates erotic, surrealist, and feminist themes. She was a recipient of the Santiago Municipal Literature Award. Biography María Luisa was born in 1910 to Martín Bombal Videla and Blanca Anthes Precht. As a child Bombal attended the Catholic girls school Sagrados Corazones. After her father's death in 1919, Bombal went with her mother and sisters to live in Paris, where she finished her studies at the lycée Sainte Geneviève. Bombal enrolled at the University of Paris, where she studied literature and philosophy. She also attended the Lycée La Bruyère and the Sorbonne, where she began to write. After Bombal completed her university studies, she returned to Chile, where she reunited with her family. Bombal also studied violin with Jacques Thibaud and drama with Charles Dolan. In 1938 Bombal published ''La amortajada'', which earned her the ''Premio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel ''Los detectives salvajes'' (''The Savage Detectives''), and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel ''2666'', which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages". ''The New York Times'' described him as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation". In addition, the author enjoys excellent reviews from both writers and contemporary literary critics and is considered one of the great Latin American authors of the 20th century, along with other writers of the stature of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, with whom he is usually compared. Life Childhood in Chile Bolaño was born in 1953 in Santiago, the son of a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Blest Gana
Alberto Blest Gana (; May 4, 1830 – November 9, 1920) was a Chilean novelist and diplomat, considered the father of Chilean novel. Blest Gana was of Irish and Basque descent. Biography He was born in Santiago, the son of an Irishman, William Cunningham Blest, and of María de la Luz Gana Darrigrandi, from an aristocratic landowning family. He studied at the Military Academy and then for one year in France. A liberal, Alberto Blest was named intendant of the province of Colchagua and starting 1866 he was Chilean diplomatic representative at Washington, London and Paris. Among his successes were the inclusion of Chile in the Universal Postal Union and the purchase of armament for Chilean troops during the War of the Pacific. He also participated at border negotiations with Argentina, but with a less important role than his previous activities. Blest Gana passionately read the novels of Honoré de Balzac. Upon his return home, he virtually founded the Chilean novel by ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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