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 […]

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 […]
Herbert George Wells nació el 21 de septiembre del 1866 y falleció el 13 de agosto del 1946. Fue un autor prolífico, escribiendo novelas, cuentos, comentario social, historia, sátira, biografía y autobiografía. Es llamado el […]
Why read when there are so many other forms of entertainment available? Harold Bloom, renowned literary critic writes that reading should not be abandoned because it is a «difficult pleasure» but it should be […]
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 […]
Iván Serguéyevich Turguénev, Иван Сергеевич Тургенев, nació en Oriol, Imperio Ruso el 28 de octubre del 1818 y murió en Bougival, Francia el 22 de agosto 1883. Fue uno de los grandes escritores rusos del […]
Ernest Hemingway, (julio 1899 – julio 1961) nació en Illinois y murió en Idaho, Estados Unidos después de una larga vida como periodista, novelista y autor de numerosos cuentos cortos. Por su ficción ganó un […]
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 […]
ut nihil non iisdem verbis redderetur auditum El jueves, 8 de noviembre a las 19:30 hs. nos veremos en La Biela de Plaza Francia en Recoleta para charlar sobre el cuento, «Funes el memorioso» […]
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 […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie nació el 15 de septiembre del 1977 en Enugu, Nigeria. Sus novelas más importantes son Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) y Americanah (2013). Publicó una antología de cuentos, The Thing […]