Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

male, 73 years old
Mario Vargas Llosa (birth name: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa) (born in Arequipa, March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer who is one of Latin...
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

male, deceased (1986)
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a...
Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

male, deceased (1998)
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in...
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

male, deceased (2005)
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, which has been compared favorably to James Joyce's "Ulysses".
Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato

male, 98 years old
Ernesto Sabato is an Argentine writer of Italian and Arbëreshë (Italian Albanian) descent. He began his studies at the Universidad Nacional de La Pl...
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares

male, deceased (1999)
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer. Bioy Casares was born in Buenos Aires, the grandson of a wealthy landowner and dairy...
Sergio Pitol

Sergio Pitol

male, 76 years old
Sergio Pitol Demeneghi (b. 18 March 1933 in Puebla) is a prominent Mexican writer and diplomat. In 2005 he received the Cervantes Prize, the most...
Augusto Roa Bastos

Augusto Roa Bastos

male, deceased (2005)
Augusto Roa Bastos is undoubtedly one of the greatest Paraguayan novelists of all time, and indeed among the most important Latin American writers....
Miguel Delibes

Miguel Delibes

male, 89 years old
Miguel Delibes is a Spanish novelist and member of the Real Academia Española. Born in Valladolid, Spain, Delibes studied law and economics and f...
Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela

male, deceased (2002)
Don Camilo José Cela Trulock, Marquis of Iria Flavia (May 11, 1916 - January 17, 2002) was an influential Spanish writer and member of the G...