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Jon Bilbao

Jon Bilbao is a Spanish writer. He was born in Ribadesella, Asturias in 1972 and studied English Literature. He has published three novels and four short-story collections, and his stories had appeared in numerous anthologies. He has been granted various literary prizes. Bilbao also published biographies for children of great historical figures, such as William […]

Jorge Ibarguengoitia

Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928-1983) was a Mexican writer and journalist. He is considered one of the most ironic, shrewd voices in Latin American literature of the twentieth century and a mordant critic of the social and political reality of his country. He studied literature and philosophy at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and was awarded […]

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, one of the greatest writers in the Spanish language, a poet, playwright, and novelist, was born in Alcalá de Henares in 1547. He was educated by Jesuits in Seville, wounded at the Lepanto battle in 1571, where he lost his left arm and later was imprisoned by the Turks for five […]

Antonio Ortuno

Antonio Ortuño

Antonio Ortuño, born in Guadalajara to Spanish immigrant parents, has been, in this order: an outstanding student; a dropout; a worker in a special-effects company, and a private tutor. His novel The Seekers Heads (2006) was selected by the Mexican press as the best first novel of the year. His second book, Human Resources (2007), was a […]

Marina Perezagua © Miguel Lizana

Marina Perezagua

Marina Perezagua was born in Seville, Spain in 1978. She graduated in Art History from the University of Seville. She obtained her Ph.D. in philology in the United States and later taught language, literature, history, and Latin American cinema at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Later she worked for two years at the […]

sara mesa

Sara Mesa

Sara Mesa is a Spanish writer. She was born in Madrid in 1976 and grew up in Seville. She has published four novels, three short-story collections, and a book of poems. She has obtained various literary prizes and is considered one of the leading voices of the new Spanish literature.

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