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* Sandra Cisneros
* Isabel Allende
* Gary Soto
* William Carlos Williams
* Jorge Luis Borges
* Julia Alvarez
* Octavio Paz
* Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
* Nicholasa Mohr
* Oscar Hijuelos
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954 in Chicago) is a Latina author and poet best known for her novel The House on Mango Street. She is also the author of Caramelo, published by Knopf in 2002, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987) and a collection of poems, Loose Woman. Her books and poetry have been translated into over a dozen languages, including Spanish, Galician, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, and, most recently, into Greek, Thai, and Serbo-Croatian. Much of her writing is influenced by her Mexican heritage.
Sandra Cisneros's Books from Amazon
The House on Mango Street
Amazon Price: $8.76 (as of 05/11/2008)
Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories
Amazon Price: $10.36 (as of 05/11/2008)
Caramelo
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 05/11/2008)
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende Llona, (born in Lima, Peru; 2 August 1942), is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realist" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America.The list 101 top leaders of the Latino community in the U.S; Cover story. Allen...
Isabel Allende's Books from Amazon
La Suma de los Dias
Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 05/11/2008)
Ines of My Soul: A Novel
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 05/11/2008)
The House of the Spirits
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 05/11/2008)
Gary Soto
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Gary Soto (born April 1952) is an American author and poet.
Gary Soto's Books on Amazon
Too Many Tamales
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 05/11/2008)
Baseball in April and Other Stories
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 05/11/2008)
Living Up The Street
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 05/11/2008)
William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 - 4 March 1963), 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 biographer Linda Wagner-...
William Carlos Williams's Books from Amazon
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
Amazon Price: $16.29 (as of 05/11/2008)
Paterson
Amazon Price: $11.16 (as of 05/11/2008)
The Doctor Stories
Amazon Price: $10.36 (as of 05/11/2008)
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer. His output includes short stories, essays, poetry, literary criticism, and translations. He was influenced by Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, H. P. Lovecraft,...
Jorge Luis Borges's Books on Amazon
Borges: Collected Fictions
Amazon Price: $13.60 (as of 05/11/2008)
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)
Amazon Price: $10.32 (as of 05/11/2008)
Ficciones (English Translation)
Amazon Price: $10.40 (as of 05/11/2008)
Julia Alvarez
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Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York, her parents returned to their native Dominican Republic when she was three months of age and raised her there until she was ten.
In 1960, the family fled back to the United States, after her father participated i...
Julia Alvarez's Books on Amazon
In the Time of the Butterflies
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 05/11/2008)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 05/11/2008)
Before We Were Free (Readers Circle)
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 05/11/2008)
Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz (March 31, 1914?April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Octavio Paz's Books on Amazon
The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre
Amazon Price: $11.60 (as of 05/11/2008)
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987: Bilingual Edition
Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 05/11/2008)
The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
Amazon Price: $10.50 (as of 05/11/2008)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
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Sor Juana (November 12, 1651 1648, according to some biographers - April 17, 1695), also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught Novohispano scholar, nun, poet, and a writer of the baroque school.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Books on Amazon
The Answer / La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poems (A Feminist Press Sourcebook)
Amazon Price: $15.26 (as of 05/11/2008)
Woman of Genius: The Intellectual Autobiography of Sor Juana de la Cruz
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Sor Juana's Love Poems (Poemas de Amor)
Amazon Price: $11.01 (as of 05/11/2008)
Nicholasa Mohr
Nicholasa Mohr's Books on Amazon
Nilda
Amazon Price: $10.16 (as of 05/11/2008)
Felita
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 05/11/2008)
Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio
Amazon Price: $11.95 (as of 05/11/2008)
Latin American Literature
Latin American literature rose to particular prominence during the second half of the 20th century, largely thanks 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 largely obscures a rich and complex tradition of literary production that dates back many centuries.
Oscar Hijuelos
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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 studied writing at City College of New York and practiced various professi...
Oscar Hijuelos's Books on Amazon
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel
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Our House in the Last World
Amazon Price: $11.05 (as of 05/11/2008)
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
Amazon Price: $11.90 (as of 05/11/2008)
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