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Mario Vargas Llosa
Saturday/Jan/10:19 2011Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa |
Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010 | Born | Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa March 28, 1936 (age 74) | Arequipa, Arequipa,
| Nationality | Peruvian, Spanish | |
| Alma mater | National University of San Marcos | |
| Notable award(s) | Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Urquidi (1955–1964) Patricia Llosa (1965–present) | |
| Children | Álvaro Vargas Llosa | |
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The Book of Embraces
Sunday/Sep/00:03 2010Eduardo Hughes Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His most well known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages. Read More...
The Postman
Saturday/Sep/19:27 2010Antonio Skarmeta
The Poet´s Wedding
Saturday/Sep/17:39 2010Antonio Skarmeta
Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic) is a Chilean writer, born in Antofagasta, Chile.
His 1985 novel and film Ardiente Paciencia inspired the 1994 Academy Award-winning movie, Il Postino (The Postman). Subsequent editions of the book bore the title El cartero de Neruda (Neruda's Postman). His fiction has since received dozens of awards and has been translated into nearly thirty languages worldwide.
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