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Mario Vargas Llosa
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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate
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Ernesto Sábato
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Ernesto Sábato nació en Rojas, provincia de Buenos Aires, en 1911
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Derek Walcott
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The major West Indian poet and dramatist writing in English today. Derek Walcott has lived most of his life in Trinidad. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. Walcott has studied the conflict between the heritage of European and West Indian culture, the long way from slavery to independence, and his own role as a nomad between cultures.
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Pablo Neruda
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This Chilean poet, and diplomat, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. His original name was Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, but he used the pen name Pablo Neruda for over 20 years before adopting it legally in 1946. Neruda is the most widely read of the Spanish American poets. From the 1940s on, his works reflected the political struggle of the left and the socio-historical developments in South America. He also wrote love poems.
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Alejo Carpentier
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Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba; and despite his European birthplace, Carpentier strongly self-identified as Cuban throughout his life.
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Maryse Condé
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Guadeloupean author of epic fiction, best-known for her historical novel SÈGOU (1984-85). Condé's multifaceted novels question stereotypical images of literary characters, colonialism, sex and gender. She has also published children's books, a booklet about Guadeloupe, book-length essays about francophone women writers and oral literatures in Martinique and Guadeloupe.
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Aimé Césaire
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Martinican poet, playwright, and politician, one of the most influential authors from the French speaking Caribbean. Aimé Césaire formulated with Léopold Senghor and Léon Gontian Damas the concept and movement of négritude, defined as "affirmation that one is black and proud of it".
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Julio Cortázar
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Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984) was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina. Most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges, was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet born in Buenos Aires.
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Édouard Glissant
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Édouard Glissant was born in Sainte-Marie, Martinique on September 21, 1928. He attended the best school on the island, Lycée Schoelcher, where fellow countryman Aimé Cesaire had previously studied and would later teach, and where Glissant’s contemporary, Frantz Fanon, would also be educated. He was 12 years old as WWII broke out in Europe and France was invaded by Germany. In 1946 he left Martinique for Paris, where he studied History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne University.
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Leopoldo Marechal
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Leopoldo Marechal, (June 11, 1900 - September, 1970, Buenos Aires), Argentine writer and critic, best known for his philosophical novels.
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Kamau Brathwaite
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Lawson Edward ‘Kamau’ Brathwaite was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, in 1930. He studied at Harrison College in Barbados before attending Cambridge University on a scholarship. He attained his BA in History in 1953 from Pembroke College and continued studying to get his teacher’s certificate one year later.
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