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She received an honorary mention for one of the stories "La viuda de Chencho el Loco" ("The Widow of Chencho, the Mad Man") which was published in 1974. That same year she moved to Mexico . She returned to Puerto Rico in 1977 and published another book of short stories called La familia de todos nosotros .
Arrufat was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba on 14 August 1935. He was of mixed Catalan and Lebanese parentage. At the age of 11, he moved with his family from Santiago de Cuba to Havana.
The Labyrinth of Solitude (Spanish: El laberinto de la soledad) is a 1950 book-length essay by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz. One of his most famous works, it consists ...
Y la mejiya rosá; Loj lábioj loj tiénej finoj . . . ¿Y tu agüela, aonde ejtá? ¿Disej que mi bemba ej grande Y mi pasa colorá? Pero dijme, por la vijne, ¿Y tu agüela, aonde ejtá? Como tu nena ej blanquita La sacaj mucho a pasiá . . . Y yo con ganae gritate ¿Y tu agüela, aonde ejtá? A ti te gujta el fojtrote, Y a mi brujca maniguá.
In his essay "La guagua aérea" ("The Flying Bus"), Sánchez explores the concept of a bi-polar culture, the question of assimilation and opposition to U.S. Anglo culture. He coined the term "La guagua aérea" which has since been used by other prominent Puerto Rican authors such as Giannina Braschi who pays homage to Sánchez's classic essay ...
Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born in Santo Domingo, the third of four siblings.Henríquez's father was Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal, a doctor and politician who was also an intellectual who maintained permanent contact with the most important representatives of the Hispanic Modernism movements from the early 20th century.
Gramática de la lengua castellana (lit. ' Grammar of the Castilian Language ' ) is a book written by Antonio de Nebrija and published in 1492. It was the first work dedicated to the Spanish language and its rules, and the first grammar of a modern European language to be published.
La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea), or simply the Polifemo, is a literary work written by Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.The poem, though borrowing heavily from prior literary sources of Greek and Roman Antiquity, attempts to go beyond the established versions of the myth by reconfiguring the narrative structure handed down by Ovid.