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Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz Prize
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (''Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz'') is a literary prize awarded to a book written in Spanish by a female author. It is organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Current winners of the prize receive USD$10,000. History This prize is named after the 17th century Mexican writer, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz who is considered the first great Latin American poet and one of the most important Hispanic literary figures. Sor Juana was persecuted for being an intellectual, a woman, a nun, and a writer who wrote quite provocatively. The prize has been given out since 1993, and is given out at the yearly Guadalajara International Book Fair (''Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara''). Winners * 2022: Daniela Tarazona (Mexico) ''Isla partida'' * 2021: Fernanda Trías (Uruguay) ''Mugre rosa'' * 2020: Camila Sosa Villada (Argentina) ''Las malas'' * 2019: Maria Gainza (Argentina) ''La luz negra'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almudena Grandes
María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández (7 May 1960 – 27 November 2021) was a Spanish writer. Author of 13 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time." Early life and career Almudena Grandes was born on 7 May 1960 in the Chamartín neighborhood of Madrid, Spain. She began writing when she was nine and obtained a degree in Geography and History at the Complutense University of Madrid. Following her degree, she started out writing texts for encyclopedias. Drawing on her experiences during the Movida Madrileña, she published her first novel ''Las edades de Lulú'' in 1989, an erotic and unbridled novel which achieved great success and won ''La Sonrisa Vertical'' prize, having been translated into twent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Unger (author) , American computer scientist
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David Unger may refer to: * David A. Unger (born 1971), film talent and literary agent * David Unger (author) (born 1950), Guatemalan-American author and translator * David Unger (journalist) (born 1947), American journalist * David Unger (director) on List of Austrian films of the 2000s See also * David Ungar David Michael Ungar, an American computer scientist, co-created the Self programming language with Randall Smith. The SELF development environment's animated user experience was described in the paper ''Animation: From Cartoons to the User Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Molina
Silvia Molina (born October 10, 1946, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican author, playwright, editor, and essayist. She has written numerous novels, including ''La mañana debe seguir gris'', which won a Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 1977, and ''El amor que me juraste'', which earned a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 1998. Early life and education Silvia Molina is the daughter of Maria Celis and Hector Perez Martinez, who was also a writer. Molina's early life was spent in Mexico City (also known as the Federal District of Mexico). She later studied Anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ... at the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (National School of Anthropology and History) the influence of this program can be seen in many of her works. A f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Iparraguirre
Sylvia Iparraguirre (born 1947) is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. Biographic Overview She was born in Junín, Buenos Aires. Her novel ''Tierra del Fuego: Una Biografia del Fin del Mundo'' won the 1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. It is a fictionalised account of the life of Jemmy Button. Books Her books include: * ''En el invierno de las ciudades'' (1988), Editorial Galerna, * ''Probables lluvias por la noche'' (1993) Emecé Editores, * ''El Parque'' (1996) * ''Tierra del Fuego'' - tr. Curbstone Press (2000), (also translated into French and German) - reviewed in English a* Further reading Publisher's website See also * Lists of writers The following are lists of writers: Alphabetical indices A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Gloria Moya
Ana Gloria Moya (1954 – 7 October 2013) was an Argentine novelist who has achieved national and international recognition. Her novel ''Cielo de tambores'' (Heaven of Drums) won the international Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 2002. It is a historical novel based on the life of Manuel Belgrano with two characters from the margins of society.- - Born in Tucuman, Moya worked as a lawyer in the northwestern province of Salta Salta () is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the 7th most-populous city in Argentina. The city serves as the cultural and economic ce .... Books * ''Sangre tan caliente - y otras pasiones'' (1997) * ''La desmemoria'' (1999) Salta: Ediciones del Robledal, * ''Cielo de tambores'' (2002) - tr. Nick Hill, ''Sky of Drums'', Curbstone Press (paperback 2006), *''Semillas de papaya a la luz de la luna.'' 2008. Emecé editorial. Notes External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Glantz
Margo Glantz Shapiro (; born January 28, 1930) is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic. She has been a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua since 1995. She is a recipient of the FIL Award. Biography Margo Glantz's family immigrated to Mexico from Ukraine in the 1920s. Her father, Jacobo Glantz, met her mother, Elizabeth (Lucia) Shapiro in Odessa, where they married. They tried to emigrate to the United States of America, where they had relatives, but were denied entry and had to remain in Mexico. Although they stayed faithful to Jewish traditions, they soon moved in Mexican artistic circles. Her father was a friend of Diego Rivera, and had great interest in the new cultural currents of his new adoptive country. For many reasons, the family (including four daughters) had to move quite often. As a result, Margo went to several schools. She spent two years in the Secondary School No. 15, a year in the Israelite School of Mexico, and earned her baccalaureate i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (born 5 April 1968) is a Spanish writer and translator of partial English descent. In 2004 she won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her work ''Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey'' (''Your King No Longer Treads the Earth''). Her 2014 novel ''Las Inviernas'' was a finalist for the Premio Herralde, and in translation (by Samuel Ritter as ''The Winterlings'') won two English PEN awards. Biography Cristina Sánchez-Andrade was born in Santiago de Compostela on 5 April 1968, the daughter of a Galician father and an English mother. She has a licentiate in information sciences from the Complutense University, one in law from the National University of Distance Education, and a master's degree in community law from the Autonomous University of Madrid, the city where she resides. She divides her time between writing and English–Spanish translation, as well as teaching narrative workshops, and her own work has been translated into several languages. She has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paloma Villegas
Paloma Villegas (born 1951) is a Mexican writer and translator and winner of the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her 2004 novel, ''Agosto y fuga'' (''August Escape''). She has translated over 20 books into Spanish. Biography Paloma Villegas was born in Mexico City in 1951. She studied Spanish language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and worked as a professor at the Autonomous Metropolitan University. She on the editorial board of ''Cuadernos Político'', and has been a member of since 1988. She has been a literary critic for various magazines and cultural supplements. She won the 2005 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (''Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz'') is a literary prize awarded to a book written in Spanish by a female author. It is organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Me ... for ''Agosto y fuga''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Amengual
Claudia Amengual Puceiro (born 7 January 1969, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan writer and translator. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. Biography She obtained her degrees in translation and literature at the University of the Republic. In 2003 she obtained a fellowship to study at the Complutense University of Madrid and Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander, Spain. Member of Bogotá39. Work *''Juliana y los libros'', 2020 (novel) *''El lugar inalcanzable'', 2018 (novel) *''Viajar y escribir: nueve destinos que inspiran'', 2017 (essay) *''Una mirada al periodismo cultural: Jaime Clara y "Sábado Sarandí"'', 2016 (essay) *'' Cartagena'', 2015 (novel) *''Rara avis. Vida y obra de Susana Soca'', 2012 (essay) *''Falsas ventanas'', 2011 (novel) *''Más que una sombra'', 2007 (novel) *''Desde las cenizas'', 2005 (novel) *''El vendedor de escobas'', 2002 (novel) *''La rosa de Jericó'', 2000 (novel) Prizes *Premio Sor Juana Inés de la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tununa Mercado
Tununa Mercado (born Nilda Mercado) is an Argentine writer. She was born on 25 December 1939 in Cordoba, Argentina. She retained her childhood nickname "Tununa" as her literary pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na .... She has written novels, short stories and essays. She has won several literary prizes, including the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize. Works * 1967 - Celebrar a la mujer como a una pascua (Cuentos) * 1987 - Antieros (Cuento) * 1988 - Canon de alcoba (Cuentos) * 1990 - En estado de memoria (Novela) * 1994 - La letra de lo mínimo (Ensayo) * 1996 - La madriguera (Novela) * 2003 - Narrar después (Ensayos) * 2005 - Yo nunca te prometí la eternidad (Novela) References Argentine women novelists 1939 births People from Córdoba, Argentina Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Sayers Peden
Margaret ("Petch") Sayers Peden (May 10, 1927 – July 5, 2020) was an American translator and professor emerita of Spanish at the University of Missouri. Prior to her death in 2020, Peden lived and worked in Columbia, Missouri. Early life and education Peden was born at West Plains, Missouri, daughter of horseman Harvey Monroe Sayers and Eleanor Green (née James), and grew up in many towns across Missouri. She was educated at William Woods University at Fulton, Missouri for two years, then studied at the University of Missouri, where she took bachelors, masters, and PhD degrees. Career After finishing her studies at the University of Missouri, Peden joined the Romance Languages Department, where she taught until her retirement. Peden's work covers nearly every genre — poetry, novel, theater and belles lettres — from the 16th century to today. Peden received her bachelor's (1948), master's (1963) and doctorate (1966) from the University of Missouri. She started translating w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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