Latino Writers

Isabel Allende Llona, (born in Lima, Peru; 2 August 1943), is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is one of the most well-known women writers in Latin America. She is largely famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (...

Gary Soto (born April 12, 1952 in Fresno, California) is a Mexican American author and poet.

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 ? March 4, 1963), also known as WCW, was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote b...

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 ? 14 June 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (; ), was an Argentine writer, essayist and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in...

Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.

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Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 ? April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (November 12, 1651 or in 1648 - April 17, 1695), also known by her full name Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje (or Asuaje) y Ramírez de Santillana, born as Juana Inés Ramírez de Santillana.

Sor Juana was a self-taught Novohispana scholar (mathematician Sor Juana/Músi...

Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America (and the Caribbean) in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous tongues. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the international success of the style known as magical realism. As such, the region's literature is often associated solely with this style (and its most famous exponent, Gabriel García Márquez). This lar...

Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He attended the Corpus Christi School Carlson, Lori M.; and Hijuelos, Oscar,...