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 […]
Café Literario en Buenos Aires
Café Literario existe para fomentar la lectura de buenos libros en comunidad.
Funes el memorioso
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
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
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 […]
Cuento corto de Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier nació en Lausana en 1904 y murió en París en 1980. Fue un escritor cubano que dejó su huella en la literatura latinoamericana. Es recordado por la formación y uso de lo «real […]
Ralph Ellison & the Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma, U.S.A. on March 1, 1913. He was a novelist, literary critic and scholar who was first trained as a musician at the Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936. His […]
Virginia Woolf on Reading
Poems and novels, histories and memoirs, dictionaries and blue-books; books written in all languages by men and women of all tempers, races, and ages jostle each other on the shelf. And outside the donkey brays, […]
El orgullo de Borges
Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito, a mí me enorgullece las que he leído. – Jorge Luis Borges, «Un lector», 1969 Queremos arrancar este nuevo año del Café Literario con ganas. […]
Taller de escritura creativa
“Nadie libera a nadie, nadie se libera sólo, [los seres humanos] se liberan en comunión. Nadie educa a nadie, nadie se educa a sí mismo, los hombres se educan entre sí mediatizados por el mundo.” […]
Poetry / poesía de Czesław Miłosz
Bilingual meeting / reunión bilingüe: Czesław Miłosz Born in Szetejnie (now Lithuania) on June 30, 1911, Czesław Miłosz is best known for his work as poet, writer, translator and diplomat. Although he was born in the Russian Empire, his […]
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