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No Entren Al 1408
"Do Not Enter Room 1408: A Spanish Anthology Tribute to Stephen King" or "King: Tribute to the King of Terror" is an anthology of stories selected by the writer Jorge Luis Cáceres, featuring contributions from several of the most important authors from Latin America and Spain paying literary homage to the work and figure of the master of horror, Stephen King. By implementing the principles of canonical creation aimed at defining various keys to reading the fantasy genre, particularly Ibero-American horror, this book represents a cartography of fears and obsessions distributed geographically in Santiago, Buenos Aires, Quito, Barcelona, Madrid, Lima, Mexico City, Havana, etc. In other words, this book is a testament to the notion that horrors, if well written, can be developed in any territory, place, or setting. It is no longer strange to see zombies or cursed cars in Quito or La Paz; the strange thing would be not to see them. This anthology has been published in six countries and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Infobox writer may be used to summarize information about a person who is a writer/author (includes screenwriters). If the writer-specific fields here are not needed, consider using the more general ; other infoboxes there can be found in :People and person infobox templates. This template may also be used as a module (or sub-template) of ; see WikiProject Infoboxes/embed for guidance on such usage. Syntax The infobox may be added by pasting the template as shown below into an article. All fields are optional. Any unused parameter names can be left blank or omitted. Parameters Please remove any parameters from an article's infobox that are unlikely to be used. All parameters are optional. Unless otherwise specified, if a parameter has multiple values, they should be comma-separated using the template: : which produces: : , language= If any of the individual values contain commas already, add to use semi-colons as separators: : which produces: : , ps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Soto Ivars
Juan Soto Ivars (1985 in Águilas) is a Spanish novelist and columnist. He is the author of the novels ''Ajedrez para un detective novato'' (2013), ''Siberia'' (2012) and ''La conjetura de Perelman'' (2011). He co-edited the short story collection ''Mi madre es un pez'' (2011) with Sergi Bellver. He contributes regularly to ''Vice'', ''Primera Línea'', ''El Confidencial'', ''Revista Tiempo'', ''Ling'' and other magazines. For two years he was the director of the newsletter ''El Crítico'' created by Juan Carlos Suñén. In 2011 he co-founded the literary movement Nuevo Drama. Works Novels * ''Ajedrez para un detective novato'' (2013) * ''Siberia'' (2012) * ''La conjetura de Perelman'' (2011) Books edited * He co-edited the short story anthology ''Mi madre es un pez'' (2011) with Sergi Bellver References {{DEFAULTSORT:Soto Ivars, Juan 1985 births Murcian writers People from Águilas Living people Spanish male short story writers Spanish short story writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espido Freire
María Laura Espido Freire (her pen name is just her surnames Espido Freire) is a writer born in Bilbao, Spain on 16 July 1974. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela. Biography Espido Freire dedicated her early years to the study and performance of classical music. She received a degree in English philology from the University of Deusto, where she also studied for a master's degree in editing. She made her literary debut with the novel ''Irlanda'' in 1998. It has been translated into several languages. The French version of the novel, translated by Eva Calveyra, won the Millepage Prize in France. As of 2007, an English translation of ''Irlanda'' is underway. The first chapter appeared in The Violet Issue of 'Fairy Tale Review'' edited by Kate Bernheimer. Another excerpt from the novel was published in the Summer 2007 issue of ''The Modern Review''. In 1999, she was awarded the Premio Planeta for her novel ''Melocotones helados.'' She is the youngest writer to hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Iparraguirre
Alexis Iparraguirre (Lima, 8 April 1974) is a Peruvian short story writer. Biography Iparraguirre holds a Ph.D. degree in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a MFA degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University (NYU). He studied Linguistics and Literature at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). According to Carlos Amador: "In Peruvian writer Alexis Iparraguirre's short story collection. El Inventario de las naves (2010), the short story "Orestes" and "Sábado" manifest the specific role that racialized, lumpenproletarian life, ecological collapse and biomechanical engineering, in the form of hallucinogens or mutants, have in developing literature's reflective and predictive capacity. Set in a Peru stripped down to its barest national markers, Iparraguirre's stories write about the way in which everyday life, comprising Peruvian economic contradictions and colonial racial hierarchies, is marked in the logics o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Yushimito
Carlos Yushimito del Valle (born 1977 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian writer of Japanese descent. Biography Carlos Yushimito del Valle studied Latin American Literature at the National University of San Marcos where he graduated in 2002. Two years later he published his first short stories collection, ''El Mago'' (The Magician), and in 2006 his second book, Las Islas (Islands), was warmly received by the critics. Since then, his stories have appeared in several anthologies of short stories in Peru and abroad. In 2010 he was considered by the British literary magazine ''Granta'' as one of the twenty two best writers in Spanish Language under 35 years, along with authors like Santiago Roncagliolo, Andrés Neuman and Alejandro Zambra. He has been invited, among others, to Quito Book Fair, Santiago de Chile, La Paz, Guadalajara, Miami and Bogotá, Colombia International Book Fairs, to the First International Festival of Young Writers in La Habana, Cuba and to several U.S. Universities, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Calvo (writer)
Javier Calvo Perales is a Spanish writer born in Barcelona in 1973. Life Javier Calvo graduated in journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and studied comparative literature at Pompeu Fabra University. He's married to American writer and photographer Mara Faye Lethem. They have two children. Work ''Laugh Tracks'' His first short-story compilation, ''Risas enlatadas'' (''Laugh Tracks'', 2001), shows stylistic elements that differ extremely from those of contemporary Spanish narrative: sampling or movie snippets, manipulated quotes of other texts, compressed plots from other novels and an "open" conception of narration, taken from Free Cinema and the montage techniques of filmmakers such as Jean Eustache or John Cassavetes. Other influences, recognizable in this book are the English novel and the audiovisual world of cinema and television, with many of his short stories using the world of television as a theme. ''The Reflecting God'' Along the same line of his sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolfo Santullo
Rodolfo Santullo (born 19 November 1979, in Mexico City) is a Mexican-born Uruguayan writer, journalist, comic book writer, and editor. Santullo moved to Montevideo Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ... and has lived there since 1984. He is the author of the graphic novels “Los últimos días del Graf Spee” (2008), “Cena con Amigos” (2009), “Acto de Guerra” (2010), "Valizas" (2011), "Dengue" (2012), "El Club de los Ilustres" (2012), "Zitarrosa" (2012), "40 Cajones" (2012), "Etchenike" (2013), "Far South" (2013), "Misterios de Cuarto Cerrado" (2014), "Malandras" (2014), "El Club de los Ilustres: Conspiración en las Sombras" (2014), "Merlín: El Druida" (2015), "El Oro del Zar" (2015), "HOUNDS" (2016), "Banda de Orcos" (2016), "Reflejo" (2016) and "El Dormil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Calderón Fajardo
Carlos Calderón Fajardo (1946-2015) was a Peruvian journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He worked as a sociologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In 1974 he won first place in the José María Arguedas Story Contest. In 1981 he won the Unanue Novel Competition with his novel ''La colina de los árboles''. In 1984 he won the Gaviota Roja Novel Prize for ''Así es la pena en el paraíso''. In 1985 he won the ''Hispamérica'' Best Short Story Prize, organized by the University of Maryland, with Roa Bastos, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ent ... as judges. In the year 2006 he was a finalist for the Tusquets Award for his novel ''El fantasma nostálgico''. His stories have been included in many Peruvian-short-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Rimachi Sialer
Gabriel Rimachi Sialer (1974 in Lima) is a Peruvian Peruvians ( es, peruanos) are the citizens of Peru. There were Andean and coastal ancient civilizations like Caral, which inhabited what is now Peruvian territory for several millennia before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century; Peruvian p ... writer, journalist, and archeologist. Gabriel Rimachi Sialer is the author of the short story books Despertares nocturnos (2000), Canto en el infierno (2001), El color del camaleón (2005); El cazador de dinosaurios (2009); La sangrienta noche del cuervo (2011); La increíble historia del Capitán Ostra (2020); e Historias extraordinarias (2020). His stories have been published in the anthologies Asamblea portátil. Muestrario de narradores iberoamericanos (2009); El bosque imaginario. Antología binacional Perú–Ecuador (2010); King, homenaje hispanoamericano al rey del terror (2014); Mario y los escribidores. 27 relatos sobre el universo vargasllosiano (2019), Cuarentena. Histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Ortuño
Antonio Ortuño (Guadalajara, 1976) is a Mexican novelist and short story writer. Ortuño is the author of the novels ''El buscador de cabezas'' (2006) and ''Recursos humanos'' (2007), finalist of the Herralde Prize. He also published the short story books ''El jardín japonés'' (2007) and ''La Señora Rojo'' (2010). In 2006 the newspaper '' Reforma'' named his debut novel ''El buscador de cabezas'' the best first novel of the year. His writing has been translated into English, French, Italian, German, Croatian, Romanian and Hungarian. Critics have praised his black humor, the agility and precision of his prose and his ability to explore the contradictions of his characters. In October 2010 the British magazine "Granta" included Ortuño in its list of the best young Spanish language writers, and the Mexican edition of the magazine " GQ" chose him as writer of the year. In November 2010 his second book of short stories ''La Señora Rojo'' was published in Spain and Mexico. In 2017. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
