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Defining crónica is difficult and contentious, as the genre is flexible, malleable, and mutating. It can be short or long; and, it can be poetry. [1] There are certain broad guidelines that identify and help recognize the genre.
Alfredo Gangotena – poet who wrote in French and Spanish; Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco (1908–1993), novelist, essayist, journalist, historian; Alicia Yánez Cossío (born 1928), poet, novelist and journalist; Ángel Felicísimo Rojas (1909–2003), novelist, and poet; Arturo Borja (1892–1912), poet; Aurelio Espinosa Pólit (1894–1961 ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos rwiθ θaˈfon]; 25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind). [1]
Ficciones (in English: "Fictions") is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, originally written and published in Spanish between 1941 and 1956. Thirteen stories from Ficciones were first published by New Directions in the English-language anthology Labyrinths (1962).
Though a very zealous missionary, Señan loved retired life. He disliked to hold office or give orders, and it is for this reason he was sometimes nicknamed "Padre Calma." The Commissary-General of the Indies directed him to write a history of the missions, and Señan in 1819 promised to comply, but he left no papers on the subject. His remains ...
The picaresque genre began with the Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) (Pictured: Its title page) The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for 'rogue' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but "appealing hero", usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society ...
For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.
Francesc Pi i Margall (1824–1901), romanticist writer who was briefly president of the short-lived First Spanish Republic; Berta Piñán (born 1963), writer, poet, politician; Francisco de Pisa (1534–1616), Spanish historian and writer; Álvaro Pombo, (1939), Spanish poet and novelist; José Antonio Porcel (1715–1794), poet and writer