The annual National Hispanic Heritage Month has arrived. Books of famous writers of this ethnicity will be celebrated in this blog!
According to the Library of Congress, "Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America."
The HuffPost created a list of the, "8 Top Latino Authors Everyone Should know." Their names are listed below along with one of their many books that are in the Logue Library.
A brief biography of each of these authors can be found in Encyclopedia Britannia (EB).
From EB, "Gabriel García Márquez, (born March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia—died April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico), Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude)."
From EB, "Mario Vargas Llosa, in full Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, (born March 28, 1936, Arequipa, Peru), Peruvian Spanish writer whose commitment to social change is evident in his novels, plays, and essays. In 1990 he was an unsuccessful candidate for president of Peru. Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.”
From EB, "Isabel Allende, (born August 2, 1942, Lima, Peru), Chilean American writer in the magic realist tradition who is considered one of the first successful woman novelists from Latin America.
From EB, "Jorge Luis Borges, (born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland), Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature."
From EB, "Julio Cortázar, pseudonym Julio Denis, (born August 26, 1914, Brussels, Belgium—died February 12, 1984, Paris, France), Argentine novelist and short-story writer who combined existential questioning with experimental writing techniques in his works."
From EB, "Carlos Fuentes, (born November 11, 1928, Panama City, Panama—died May 15, 2012, Mexico City, Mexico), Mexican novelist, short-story writer, playwright, critic, and diplomat whose experimental novels won him an international literary reputation."
From EB, "Juan Rulfo, in full Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, (born May 16, 1917, Apulco?, Mexico [see Researcher’s Note]—died January 7, 1986, Mexico City), Mexican writer who is considered one of the finest novelists and short-story creators in 20th-century Latin America, though his production—consisting essentially of two books—was very small. Because of the themes of his fiction, he is often seen as the last of the novelists of the Mexican Revolution. He had enormous impact on those Latin American authors, including Gabriel García Márquez, who practiced what has come to be known as magic realism, but he did not theorize about it. Rulfo was an avowed follower of the American novelist William Faulkner."
From EB, "Ernesto Sábato, in full Ernesto Roque Sábato, (born June 24, 1911, Rojas, Argentina—died April 30, 2011, Buenos Aires), Argentine novelist, journalist, and essayist whose novels are notable for their concern with philosophical and psychological issues and whose political and social studies were highly influential in Argentina in the latter half of the 20th century."
Now, let's talk about the Logue Library.....
If you search on the topic of Hispanic Heritage you will receive over 1,250 results in our catalog which includes over 48 eBooks and 11 Print Books on these popular authors.
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What book listed above would you most likely read?
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