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LatAm Authors
YGK These Latin American Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Colombian master of magic realism and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Marquez |
| The fictional town based on Aracataca that serves as the setting for many of García Marquez’s works | Macondo |
| The García Marquez novel that details the decline of the Buendía family over seven generations | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| The Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair who died shortly after the 1973 coup | Pablo Neruda |
| The epic 1950 work by Pablo Neruda inspired by his travels through the Andes on horseback | Canto general |
| The Argentine author of Ficciones and The Aleph who became blind in his fifties | Jorge Luis Borges |
| The avant-garde movement Borges helped found after returning to Argentina from Spain | Ultraismo |
| The Chilean author of The House of the Spirits who fled to Venezuela after her uncle Salvador was deposed | Isabel Allende |
| The 1945 Nobel winner born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga who wrote Desolation and "Sonnets of Death" | Gabriela Mistral |
| The Mexican poet and essayist who wrote the 584-line poem The Sun Stone | Octavio Paz |
| The pivotal Octavio Paz essay collection exploring Mexican heritage and the psychology of the "zoot-suiter" | The Labyrinth of Solitude |
| The Cuban revolutionary and poet who wrote Simple Verses, which contains the poem "Guantanamera" | José Martí |
| The Peruvian author of The Time of the Hero who ran for president in 1990 against Alberto Fujimori | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| The autobiographical Vargas Llosa novel about soap operas and a young man's romance with his aunt | Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter |
| The Guatemalan Nobel laureate who translated the Popol Vuh and wrote the dictator novel El señor presidente | Miguel Asturias |
| The Mexican author of The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo | Carlos Fuentes |
| The historical figure whose disappearance in Mexico is portrayed in Carlos Fuentes's The Old Gringo | Ambrose Bierce |
| The first Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature | Gabriela Mistral |
| The surrealist collection written by Pablo Neruda while serving as a penniless consul in Burma | Residence on Earth |
| The title character of a Carlos Fuentes novel who recalls his life and the betrayed ideals of the Mexican Revolution while on his deathbed | Artemio Cruz |
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