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Biography Peruvian novelist, essayist, journalist, literary critic, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa was born…
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Biography Vicente García Huidobro Fernández was born to a distinguished aristocrat family in Santiago, Chile in 1893. In his teenage and…
Biography Rubén Darío was born on January 18, 1867 in Metapa, Nicaragua (later renamed Ciudad Dario). At birth, he was…
Biography Although Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950, her family moved to the Dominican…
Biography Isabel Allende is one of Latin America’s foremost female writers. Through translation, her work has received acclaim in the…