Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Carlos Thorne Boas (born 1923), novelist, writer and lawyer. Álvaro Torres-Calderón (born 1975), poet. Abraham Valdelomar (1888–1919) Blanca Varela (1926–2009), poet. Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936), novelist of the Latin American Boom. Virginia Vargas (born 1945), sociologist.
On October 7, 1928, he founded the Peruvian Socialist Party, becoming its general secretary a year later. During the same year, he founded the Marxist magazine Labor and published his Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality. In 1929 he founded the General Confederation of Workers of Peru.
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (Spanish pronunciation: [mi (ˈ)ɣel ˈaŋxel asˈtuɾjas]; 19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native ...
The Latin American authors who have won the most prestigious literary award in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature, are: Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1945), Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala, 1967), Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1971), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1982), Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1990), and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru, 2010).
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron. Víctor Montoya. Edmundo Paz Soldán (born 1967), novelist. Jaime Sáenz (1921–1986), poet and novelist. José Ignacio de Sanjinés (1786–1864), poet. Pedro Shimose. Gastón Suárez (1929–1984), novelist and dramatist. Franz Tamayo (1878–1956), poet. Adela Zamudio (1854–1928), poet and novelist.
Culture of Guatemala. Guatemalan literature is literature written by Guatemalan authors, whether in the indigenous languages present in the country or in Spanish. Though there was likely literature in Guatemala before the arrival of the Spanish, all the texts that exist today were written after their arrival.
The term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the country's colonial period, and to oral artistic forms created by diverse ethnic groups that existed in the area during the prehispanic period, such as the Quechua, the Aymara and the Chanka South American native groups.
1947. Bernardo Alberto Houssay. Argentina. First Latin American to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 1980. Baruj Benacerraf. Venezuela. United States. 1984.