Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Latin America

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Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Poet
(1889-1957)

Just the Facts:

Name: Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, or, more simply, Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga
Known as: Gabriela Mistral
Birth: April 7, 1889, Vicuña, Chile
Death: January 10, 1957, Hempstead, New York, USA
Language: Spanish
Who she was: Chilean poet, educator, and humanist known for Sonnets of Death, Despair, Tenderness, and Harvesting.Nobel Prize in Literature (1945)
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

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Julio Cortázar, Argentine Writer
(1914-1984)

Just the Facts:

Name: Jules Florencio Cortázar
Known as: Julio Cortázar
Birth: August 26, 1914, Ixelles, Belgium
Death: February 12, 1984, Paris, France
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist known for Hopscotch; All Fires the Fire; Blow-up and Other Stories
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Writer
(1936 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
Known as: Mario Vargas Llosa
Birth: March 28, 1936, Arequipa, Peru
Language: Spanish
Who he is: Peruvian novelist, short story writer, and essayist; The Time of the Hero; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter; The War of the End of the World; The Feast of the Goat; The Bad Girl; Nobel Prize in Literature (2010)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Writer
(1927-2014)

Just the Facts:

Name: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
Known as: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Birth: March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia
Death: April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Autumn of the Patriarch; Love in the Time of Cholera; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Nobel Prize in Literature (1982)
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom; GC

Wilson Harris, Guyanese Writer
(1921-2018)

Just the Facts:

Name: Theodore Wilson Harris
Known as: Wilson Harris
Birth: March 24, 1921, New Amsterdam, Guyana
Death: 8 March 2018, Chelmsford, England
Language: English
Who he was: Guyanese poet, novelist, and essayist; The Guyana Quartet (Palace of the Peacock; The Far Journey of Oudin; The Whole Armour; The Secret Ladder)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Jean Rhys, Anglo-Dominican Writer
(1890-1979)

Just the Facts:

Name: Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams
Known as: Jean Rhys
Birth: August 24, 1890, Roseau, Dominica
Death: May 14, 1979, Exeter, England, UK
Language: English
Who she was: Anglo-Dominican novelist, short story writer, essayist; Wide Sargasso Sea; Voyage in the Dark; Good Morning, Midnight

Diego Rivera, Mexican Painter
(1886-1957)

Just the Facts:

Name: Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez
Known as: Diego Rivera
Birth: December 8, 1886, Guanajuato, Mexico
Death: November 24, 1957, Mexico City, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Mexican painter and muralist; murals Man, Controller of the Universe; The History of Mexico; paintings The Fecund Earth; The Flower Seller

Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Writer
(1928-2012)

Just the Facts:

Name: Carlos Fuentes Macías
Known as: Carlos Fuentes
Birth: November 11, 1928, Panama City, Panama
Death: May 15, 2012, Mexico City, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Mexican novelist and essayist; Gringo Viejo (The Old Gringo); La Muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz); Terra Nostra
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Popol Vuh, Mayan Myths
(between 1554 and 1558)

Xibalba, the Mayan underworld

Just the Facts:

Name: Popol Vuh
A;so known as: Popol Wu'uj
Dates: between 1554 and 1558
Place: Guatemala
Language: Quiche (K'iche')
What it is: Mayan mythological text

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Pablo Neruda, Chilean Poet
(1904-1973)

Just the Facts:

Name: Pablo Neruda
Known as: Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
Birth: July 12, 1904, Parral, Chile
Death: September 23, 1973, Santiago, Chile
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Chilean poet known for Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair; Nobel Prize for Literature (1971)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine Writer
(1899-1986)

Just the Facts:

Name: Jorge Luis Borges
Birth: August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Death: June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Argentine writer of short stories and essays, including A Universal History of Infamy, The Garden of Forking Paths, and Labyrinths.
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom; GC

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
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links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

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