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Édouard Glissant
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...
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Ernesto Sábato
Ernesto Sábato nació en Rojas, provincia de Buenos Aires, en 1911 Article: Ernesto Sabato, a search for meaning Novels * 1948: El túnel (Translated by Harriet de Onis in 1950 as The Outsider and...
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate Article: The Cartography of Power: Mario Vargas Llosa Fiction...
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Aimé Césaire
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...
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Leopoldo Marechal
Leopoldo Marechal, (June 11, 1900 - September, 1970, Buenos Aires), Argentine writer and critic, best known for his philosophical novels. Poetry Aguiluchos (1922) Días Como Flechas (1926) Odas para...
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Maryse Condé
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....
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Pablo Neruda
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...
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Alejo Carpentier
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...
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Derek Walcott
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...
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Kamau Brathwaite
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...
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