Marguerite Yourcenar was born on June 8, 1903 in Belgium and died in Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S. when she was 84 years old. She was French-American novelist, essayist, and poet. She was the first woman […]
Categoría: short stories
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Enuga, Nigeria in 1977. She is one of Nigeria’s best known authors around the world along with Chinua Achebe. Her three novels, Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow […]
Honoré de balzac
Honoré de Balzac was born on May 20th, 1799 and died on August 18th, 1850. He is best known for his magnum opus, La Comédie humaine. He is considered one of the exponents of realism […]
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and died on January 13, 1941. He was a world renowned Irish author or Ulysses (1922) and Dubliners (1914). We will be reading three short stories […]
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925 and died on August 3, 1964. She was an American novelist and short story writer well known for her Southern Gothic style. Her Complete Stories, published posthumously, […]
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, was born on March 31st, 1809 and died on March 4th, 1852. He was a Russian novelist and playwright of Ukrainian origin. While he critiqued the Russian elite and […]
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and died on January 13, 1941. He was a world renowned Irish author or Ulysses (1922) and Dubliners (1914). «For myself, I […]
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith was born in London in 1975. She was educated at Hampstead Comprehensive and King’s, Cambridge, where she occasionally performed as a singer and actor. Her story, «The Embassy of Cambodia» originally appeared in The New […]
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist. According to her online Wikipedia profile, she has published 17 books of poetry, 16 […]
Café Literario – septiembre y octubre
Las siguientes reuniones del Café Literario: Truman Capote – Miriam September 24, 19:30, La Biela, Recoleta. For this meeting in English, we will read Capote’s 1945 short story, «Miriam». Feel free to read another short […]
Café Literario en Buenos Aires 