Which of the following poets was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century: Rosario Castellanos or Gore Vidal?
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Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (] ; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 (the poets who wrote following the Second World War, influenced by César Vallejo and others), she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression, and her work has influenced feminist theory and cultural studies. Though she died young, she opened the door of Mexican literature to women, and left a legacy that still resonates today.
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Gore Vidal Eugene Louis "Gore" Vidal ( October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.
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Centro Cultural Bella Época The Centro Cultural Bella Epoca is a cultural 3,000 square meter cultural centre in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City. It includes the Rosario Castellanos bookshop (claimed to be the largest bookshop in Latin America) which carries over 35 thousand different titles, and has a children’s area, a coffee shop, and reading facilities. The "Cine Lido" art cinema and "Galería Luis Cardoza y Aragón" art gallery are also housed in the cultural center.
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Margarita Xirgu Margarita Xirgu, also Margarida Xirgu (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, Catalonia, Spain – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, Uruguay), was a Spanish stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America. A friend of the poet Federico García Lorca, she was forced into exile during Francisco Franco's dictatorship of Spain, but continued her work in America. Notable plays in which she appeared include "Como tú me Deseas", "La casa de Bernarda Alba", and "Mariana Pineda".
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Ramón Xirau Ramón Xirau Subías (] , ] ) (Barcelona, Spain, 20 January 1924 – Mexico City, 26 July 2017) was a Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.
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José Lezama Lima José Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910 – August 9, 1976) was a Cuban writer and poet who is considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature.
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Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi (September 3, 1930 – October 7, 1991) was an Argentinian poet, novelist, philosopher, essayist, educator and lecturer of Italian heritage best known for having founded and directed New Acropolis, an international philosophical educational and cultural organisation. He was an academic member of the International Philo-Byzantine Academy and University (IPHBAU) and the International Burckhardt Academy (Italy), a knight of the Real Orden de San Ildefonso y San Atilano, and a recipient of the silver cross from the Société Académique Arts Sciences Lettres (France)
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Mario Santiago Papasquiaro Mario Santiago Papasquiaro is the pen name of José Alfredo Zendejas Pineda (Mexico City, December 25, 1953 – 1998). Mexican poet and co-founder of the infrarrealista poetry movement.
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João Cabral de Melo Neto João Cabral de Melo Neto(] ), (January 9, 1920 – October 9, 1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat, and one of the most influential writers in late Brazilian modernism. He was awarded the 1990 Camões Prize and the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the only Brazilian poet to receive such award to date. He was considered until his death a perennial competitor for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Elmira Antommarchi Elmira Antommarchi (born in Cúcuta, Colombia) was a Colombian poet who published numerous poems. All her poems appear in various anthologies. Elmira's sisters, Hortensia Antommarchi and Dorila Antommarchi, were also published poets. Elmira died in Cúcuta, Colombia.
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María Negroni María Negroni (born 1951 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian poet, essayist, novelist and translator.
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Jorge Guillén Jorge Guillén y Álvarez (] ; 18 January 18936 February 1984) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic.
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Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias is an epic poem written in the late sixteenth century by Juan de Castellanos.
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Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (] ; June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935), commonly known as Fernando Pessoa, was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.
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Justo Sierra Justo Sierra Méndez (Campeche, Republic of Yucatán, January 26, 1848 – Madrid, Spain, September 13, 1912), was a prominent liberal Mexican writer, historian, journalist, poet and political figure of the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
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Argentine literature Argentine literature, i.e. the set of literary works produced by writers who originated from Argentina, is one of the most prolific, relevant and influential in the whole Spanish speaking world, with renowned writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Leopoldo Lugones and Ernesto Sabato.
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Trujillo Book Festival Trujillo Book Festival is an international literary festival held in Trujillo, a Peruvian city. The last edition in 2012 took place on March from days 1 to 12 in the "Plazuela El Recreo" an historical square of the city and had the participation of Peruvian writers as Arturo Corcuera and Jorge Diaz Herrera, writer honored, and also the young Colombian poet Lucia Estrada
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Francisco Monterde Francisco de Asís Monterde García Icazbalceta (August 9, 1894 in Mexico City – February 27, 1985 in Mexico City) was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years. He was an important promoter of the arts and culture in Mexico in the years following the Revolution.
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Levi Romero (poet) Levi Romero (born April 5, 1961) is a New Mexican poet and lecturer in Creative Writing and Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico. Romero’s published works of poetry have garnered significant attention in the Southwestern United States and beyond for their depictions of contemporary New Mexican life and for their articulation of the New Mexican identity. In 2012, he was named the centennial poet for New Mexico.
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Rafael Guillén Rafael Guillén (born in Granada, 27 April 1933) is a Spanish poet, a prominent member of the Generation of '50.
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Francisco Balagtas Francisco Baltazar (born Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz; April 2, 1788 – February 20, 1862), also known as Francisco Balagtas, was a prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impact on Filipino literature. The famous epic, "Florante at Laura", is regarded as his defining work.
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Marco Martos Carrera Marco Martos Carrera (November 29, 1942 in Piura, Peru) is a Peruvian poet and the President of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua. It's assumed from critics to be one of the most important persons of the Peruvian "60's generation". Critics also appoints that he uses a simple way of expression with an ironic way to project the life. We can find in his work topics like 'loneliness' and 'existentialism'.