Argentina

Francisco Solano López 

Francisco Solano López (1928-2011) was one of the most important Latin American illustrators of his generation. Perhaps best known in the U.S. for his erotic comics, he illustrated a number of edgy,…...

Héctor G. Oesterheld 

Héctor Germán Oesterheld (born July 23, 1919; disappeared and presumed dead 1977) was an Argentinian journalist and comics writer. Considered the most important Latin American comic writer,…...

Horacio Castillo 

Horacio Castillo (Ensenada, Argentina, 1934–2010) published eight books of poetry, as well as numerous volumes of Greek and Portugese poetry in translation. His own work has been translated into…...

Ángela Pradelli 

Ángela Pradelli is an Argentine writer and a professor of Literature at the secondary school level, as well as Coordinator of the National Plan for the Province of Buenos Aires. She also coordinates…...

Edgar Brau 

Edgar Brau was born in Argentina. He worked as an actor, a stage director, a painter of icons, and a photographer before devoting himself to writing literature. He published his first book, The Poem…...

María Negroni 

María Negroni was born in Rosario, Argentina. She has published eleven books of poetry, three collections of essays, and two novels, as well as works in translation from French and English. Her…...

Samanta Schweblin 

Samanta Schweblin was born in Buenos Aires in 1978. Her first book, the short story collection El núcleo del disturbio, was awarded first prize by El Fondo Nacional de las Artes de Argentina and…...

Andrés Neuman 

Andrés Neuman was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he spent his childhood. Son of emigrant musicians, he lives in Granada, Spain. He has a degree in Spanish Philology from the University…...

Guillermo Martínez 

Guillermo Martínez was born in Bahía Blanca, in Argentina, in 1962. In barely a decade he has become one of the most important writers of his generation. His book Los crimenes de Oxford has…...

Mempo Giardinelli 

Mempo Giardinelli was born in Resistencia, Argentina, in 1947. A writer and journalist, he is the author of several novels, short story collections, and nonfiction books. He was also a founder of the literary…...

Juan José Delaney 

Juan José Delaney was born in Buenos Aires in 1954. He belongs to a large Irish-Argentine family and holds the chair in Twentieth-Century Argentinean Literature at the Universidad del Salvador (Buenos…...

Lúcia Bettencourt 

A native of Rio de Janeiro, Lúcia Bettencourt is one of the most innovative and dynamic writers in Brazil today. Her first book, the highly acclaimed collection A secretária de Borges, won…...

Sergio Bizzio 

Sergio Bizzio, born in Buenos Aires in 1956, is a novelist, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter and screenwriter. Author of a large oeuvre and considered ahead of his time by the critics, he has on many occasions…...

Mercedes Roffé 

Mercedes Roffé is one of Argentina’s leading poets. Widely published in Latin America and Spain, her poetry has also been published in translation in Italy, Quebec, Romania, England,…...

Sergio Chejfec 

Sergio Chejfec (Buenos Aires, 1956) has published twelve books of fiction, poetry, and essays since 1990. While living in Caracas, Venezuela from 1990 to 2005, he was the editor of Nueva Sociedad, a journal…...

Juan Forn 

Juan Forn was born in Buenos Aires in 1959. After publishing his first arid only book of poetry in 1979, he traveled to Europe, and upon his return to Buenos Aires he began working in the publishing business…...

J. Rodolfo Wilcock 

Born in Buenos Aires, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (1919–78) was a member of the circle of innovative writers that included Jorge Luis Borges. Later self-exiled in Rome, Wilcock became a leading Italian…...

Liliana Heker 

Liliana Heker was born in Buenos Aires in 1943. She began her professional writing career at seventeen with the support of Abelardo Castillo; her first short story "Los juegos" (1960) appeared in the magazine…...

Liniers 

Liniers is Ricardo Siri's second name. Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Liniers began his career making fanzines. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spirou, La Mano, and other magazines he can't…...

César Aira 

A prolific novelist, playwright, essayist and translator, César Aira has published around forty novels, as well as short stories, essays and plays. He is one of the most important authors in contemporary…...

Raquel Garzón 

Raquel Garzón (Córdoba, Argentina, 1970) is a poet and journalist. Thanks to five books, Crucigramas (1987), Cataclismos (1989), Poemas Grises (1991), Riesgos de la noche (2001) and Monstruos…...

Guillermo Saavedra 

Guillermo Saavedra (Buenos Aires, 1960) is a poet, editor, literary and theater critic, and cultural journalist. His books include the poetry collections Caracol (Último Reino, 1989), Tentativas…...

Ana María Shua 

Ana María Shua has earned a prominent place in contemporary Argentine fiction with the publication of over forty books in nearly every literary genre: novels, short stories, short short stories,…...

Rodolfo Walsh 

Rodolfo Walsh is one of the most important Argentinean writers of the second half of the twentieth century. He is considered a canonical writer in Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, where he is…...

Fernando Sorrentino 

Fernando Sorrentino, born in Buenos Aires in 1942, was a great admirer of Borges. He published--first in Spanish, then in English in Clark Zlotchew's English translation--what is considered to be the…...

Alberto Manguel 

Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 and grew up in Israel, where his father was the Argentine ambassador. As a teenager, he befriended Jorge Luis Borges, who frequented the bookshop where…...

Silvina Ocampo 

Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) published eight books of poetry and eight of stories, in addition to other works, notably the Antología de literature fantástica that she edited with her husband…...

Edgardo Cozarinsky 

Edgardo Cozarinsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1939 and has lived in Paris since 1974. Best known for his subtle, semidocumentary films, he has also written a previous collection of short stories, Urban…...

Alicia Dujovne Ortiz 

Alicia Dujovne Ortiz was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in Toulouse, France, since 1978. She is a journalist and the author of several volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including biographies…...

Maria Fasce 

Maria Fasce was born in Buenos Aires in 1969. She has worked as an editor and translator into Spanish from English, French, Italian, and Portuguese. As a journalist she has contributed reviews and specialist…...

Ernesto Sábato 

Ernesto Sábato was born in Rojas, in the province of Buenos Aires, in 1911. He obtained a doctorate in physics and philosophy from the Universidad de La Plata and worked in the Curie laboratory…...

Juan José Saer 

Juan José Saer was born in Serodino/Santa Fe in 1937, the son of Arab immigrants. He studied law and philosophy and from 1962 taught at the Santa Fe Instituto de Cinematografía. He moved…...

Graciela Speranza 

Graciela Speranza was born in Buenos Aires in 1957. She is a translator and professor of Argentine literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She has published several books of conversations on art…...

Tomás Eloy Martínez 

The writer and journalist Tomás Eloy Martínez was born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1934. As a young man he won various prizes for his poems and short stories. He has published a number…...

Ricardo Piglia 

Ricardo Piglia (b. 1940) is Argentina's leading novelist and one of Latin America's most important contemporary thinkers and writers. His novels have been translated into English, French, Italian,…...

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