On May 17, 2009, death took us away from the Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet Mario Benedetti. One of the most outstanding writers of contemporary Latin American literature, was born in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay. RELATED: Eduardo Galeano, the Writer of Subjugated and Forgotten Stories Benedetti became an emblematic figure not only for his […]

The most famous Colombian writer of the 20th century, Gabriel García Márquez (Gabo), died on April 17, 2014, in a remote neighborhood of Mexico City at the age of 87.  Ten years after his death, his children have decided to launch what would be his last novel written during his lifetime.  RELATED: Festival Viva Venezuela […]

Latin American literature became very succesfuly in Twenieth Century, making that several authors became very well known, and their works were translated into English and even other languages. Related: Latin Americans Who Have Won the Nobel Prize in Literature Some of them are the Cuban Alejo Carpentier, which books have been traslated to French and English. For […]

Since its creation in 1901, a total of 116 writers of up to 25 languages have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, the highest award a writer can receive. Of them only 6 have been Latin American, the most recent being Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010. RELATED: French Writer Annie Ernaux Wins 2022 Nobel […]