Which writer was born first, Marguerite Yourcenar or Rosario Castellanos?
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Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar (] ; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the "Prix Femina" and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.
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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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Isabel de Villena Isabel de Villena (1430 Valencia, Spain – 1490 Valencia, Spain) was the illegitimate child of Enrique de Villena an unknown noblewoman who rose to become the abbess of the Real Monasterio de la Trinidad of Valencia. As the first major female writer of a work done in the Catalan language, she composed a number of religious treaties. Her most famous work was her "Vita Christi" (Christ's Life). She was also a proto-feminist who tried to change the negative image of women at the time through her writing.
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María Esther de Miguel María Esther de Miguel (1 November 1929, Larroque, Entre Ríos Province - Buenos Aires, 27 July 2003) was an Argentinian writer.
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Nina de Callias Anne-Marie Gaillard (12 July 1843 – 22 July 1884, in a clinic at Vanves), known as "Nina de Villard de Callias", "Nina de Callias" or "Nina de Villard", was a French writer and poet.
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Rachilde Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (February 11, 1860 – April 4, 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de siècle France.
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Oriental Tales Oriental Tales (French: Nouvelles orientales ) is a 1938 short story collection by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. The stories share a self-consciously mythological form; some are based on pre-existing myths and legends, while some are new. The story "How Wang-Fo Was Saved" was adapted into an animated short film by René Laloux in the 1980s.
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Fernán Caballero Fernán Caballero (24 December 1796, Morges, Vaud – 7 April 1877) was the pseudonym adopted from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real by the Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber.
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Hilda Montaire Hilda Suico Montayre (born April 13, 1922) is a Filipino writer who often uses the pseudonym Rosa Montes. She considers fellow Cebuana writer Maria Kabigon to be a major influence.
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Carlos Zubizarreta Carlos Zubizarreta was a writer born in Asunción, Paraguay in 1904.
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Marguerite Linton Glentworth Marguerite Linton Glentworth (pen name, Gladys Dudley Hamilton; Newark, New Jersey, January 18, 1882) was an American author.
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Eunice Odio Eunice Odio (pseudonym, Catalina Mariel; San José, Costa Rica, October 18, 1919 – Mexico City, Mexico, March 23, 1974) was a notable Latin American poet. She wrote articles, essays, reflections, letters, short stories and children's literature. Odio worked as a journalist and she also taught English and French. She left an extensive body of poetic work. In addition to Costa Rica and Mexico, she also lived in Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and the United States. She married the painter Rodolfo Zanabria in order to gain Mexican citizenship.
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Thibault de Montaigu Thibault de Montaigu (born 21 Decembre 1978 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer and journalist. He is the son of French business woman Françoise Gallimard.
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María Luisa Elío María Luisa Elío Bernal (17 August 1926 – 17 July 2009) was a Spanish writer and actress exiled in Mexico. She was an inspiration for Gabriel García Márquez. She wrote and acted in an autobiographical film, "El balcón vacío" (The Empty Balcony), which was one of the first films to depict the life of Spanish exiles during the Spanish Civil War.
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Tununa Mercado Tununa Mercado (born Nilda Mercado) is an Argentine writer. She was born on 25 December 1939 in Cordoba, Argentina. She retained her childhood nickname "Tununa" as her literary nom de plume. She has written novels, short stories and essays. She has won several literary prizes, including the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize.
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Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau is an Argentine-born French author, born in Argentina in 1964.
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Marguerite Poland Marguerite Poland (born 3 April 1950, Johannesburg) is a South African writer and author of eleven children's books.
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Beatriz Guido Beatriz Guido (13 December 1924 – 4 March 1988) was an Argentine novelist and screenwriter.
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Felisberto Hernández Felisberto Hernandez (October 20, 1902 – January 13, 1964) was an Uruguayan writer.
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Rosario García Orellana Rosario García Orellana (October 2, 1905 Havana – November 3, 1997 New York City) was a Cuban coloratura soprano. Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona composed "Escucha al Ruiseñor" (Listen to the Nightingale) for her which she recorded, among other Cuban music, in New York City for RCA Victor. She was thereafter known as Cuba's nightingale.
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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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Bernardo Santareno Bernardo Santareno is the pseudonym of António Martinho do Rosário (November 19, 1920 – August 20, 1980), a Portuguese writer considered the greatest Portuguese playwright of the 20th century.