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On the morning of 19 February 1937, Horacio Quiroga drank a glass of cyanide that killed him within minutes. His body was buried in the grounds of the Casa del Teatro de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE), of which he was the founder and vice-president, although his remains were later repatriated to his homeland.
Her novels include La vida brava. Los amores de Horacio Quiroga (2007), on the life of Horacio Quiroga , [ 3 ] El sublevado. Garibaldi, corsario del Río de La Plata (2009), on the voyage of Giuseppe Garibaldi to Montevideo seen from the perspective of a female character, [ 4 ] and Hay una cierva menos en el monte (2012), inspired by the 2004 ...
In 1921, Emir Rodríguez Monegal was born on 28 July in Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay. [4] He had the double-barrelled name Rodríguez Monegal (erroneously "Rodríguez-Monegal" in some texts) but was often referred to as R. Monegal or Monegal only, a Spanish naming custom when the first surname is extremely common.
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL (from its Spanish name: Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara) is the largest book fair in the Americas, and second-largest book fair in the world after Frankfurt's. It is also considered the most important cultural annual event of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world. [1]
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Along with the public, the book fair is attended by Cuban and international authors, publishers, and political officials that are sanctioned by Cuba's communist government. Over 100 publishing houses present catalogues of books, including Casa de las Américas. Each book fair is dedicated to a genre, issue, or author, and also a guest of honor.
Tyler Perry is opening up about the devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires — and criticizing insurance companies for the role they played as people lost their homes.. In a post shared on his ...
Salomón de la Selva was born on March 20, 1893, in León, Nicaragua, son of Salomón Selva Glenton and Evangelina Escoto Baca and the oldest of nine children. In 1906 at the age of twelve, he is offered a scholarship by the government of José Santos Zelaya to study in the United States.