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Arévalo Martínez is remembered mostly for the title story of his collection El hombre que parecía un caballo (1920; "The Man Who Resembled a Horse"), which was once considered the most famous Latin American short story of the 20th century. First published in 1915, the story was so successful that Arévalo made other experiments in the same vein.
The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges invented what was almost a new genre, the philosophical short story, and would go on to become one of the most influential of all Latin American writers. At the same time, Roberto Arlt offered a very different style, closer to mass culture and popular literature, reflecting the urbanization and European ...
He published El infiltrado in 1989, which was awarded a prize as the best Latin-American novel translated to French that year. [6] Collyer has continued to publish works to much critical acclaim [ 7 ] and has won the Premio Municipal de Santiago for his short story collections, [ 8 ] amongst various other awards for his publications in general.
The literary mixing of US and Spanish American culture, history, and social concerns is intensified by the inception of Latino literature written in English in the second half of the 20th century, in which authors such as Cristina García, Julia Álvarez, Gloria Anzaldúa, Oscar Hijuelos, Piri Thomas, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero, and, of ...
Alcides Arguedas (1879–1946), historian; Matilde Casazola; Javier del Granado (1913–1996), poet; Alfonso Gumucio Dagron; Víctor Montoya; Edmundo Paz Soldán (born 1967), novelist
Rudolfo Anaya, Mexican American author, educator born in 1937 in Pantura, New Mexico and published Bless Me Ultima in 1972, which's adapted to film in 2013. "Chicano" is a label or chosen identity that a portion of Mexican Americans identify with [21] [22] and refers to a person of Mexican
The Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award was created in 1995 to recognize authors and illustrators whose works portray the authentic Mexican American experience. Named after distinguished alumnus and educator Dr. Tomás Rivera, the award includes two categories–works for younger readers (ages 0 to 12) and works for older ...
An abenteuerroman is Germany's version of the picaresque novel; it is an "entertaining story of the adventures of the hero, but there is also often a serious aspect to the story." [27] Alain-René Le Sage's Gil Blas (1715) is a classic example of the genre, [28] which in France had declined into an aristocratic adventure.