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Latin American Autho
Latin American Authors that you gotta know
| Work and misc info | Author |
|---|---|
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Garcia Marquez |
| Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair | Pablo Neruda |
| Fervor of Buenos Aires | Borges |
| A Universal History of Infamy | Borges |
| The House of the Spirits | Allende |
| Sonnets of Death | Mistral |
| The Sun Stone | Octavio Paz |
| Where the Air is Clear | Fuentes |
| Translated Popol Vuh into Spanish | Miguel Asturias |
| The Escape of the Inca | Vargas Llosa |
| Ill-Omened Friendship | Jose Marti |
| The Time of the Hero | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Multa de tal | Asturias |
| The Death of Artemio Cruz | Carlos Fuentes |
| Guantanamera | Jose Marti |
| The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor | Garcia Marquez |
| Canto general | Neruda |
| A Universal History of INfamy | Borges |
| Eva Luna | Allende |
| Desolation | Gabriela Mistral |
| The Labyrinth of Solitude | Octavio Paz |
| Residence on Earth | Pablo Neruda |
| The General in his Labyrinth | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Paula | Isabel Allende |
| In the Light of India | Octavio Paz |
| Weekend in Guatemala | Miguel Asturias |
| Old Gringo | Carlos Fuentes |
| Conversation in the Cathedral | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| The War of the End of the World | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Where the Air is Clear | Carlose Fuentes |
| Mexican, absurdist plays, wrote about the Mexican Revolution of 1910, wrote about Ambrose Bierce in Mexico | Carlos Fuentes |
| Cuban poet and revolutionary fighting the Spanish in the 1890s | Jose Marti |
| Peru, wrote about dictatorship, ran for president but defeated by Fujimori | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Guatemalan, 1967 Nobel, wrote about Mayan mythology, attacked United Fruit Company | Miguel Asturias |
| Colombian, 1982 Nobel Prize, known for magic realism | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Garcia Marquez |
| Chile, 1971 Nobel, wrote surrealism, served in Chilean senate, forced into exile for Communist views, friend of Salvador Allende | Pablo NEruda |
| Argentina, 1/4 English, Founded the ultraismo movement | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Uncle was head of Chile, had to flee when he was deposed by Pinochet, magic realism | Isabel Allende |
| Chile, Nobel 1945, first Latin American Nobel, Langston Hughes translated poetry into English | Gabriela Mistral |
| Mexican, Nobel 1990, fought with Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, supports leftist causes in Mexico, uses Aztec symbolism | Octavio Paz |
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