Juan Montalvo

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Why New York Is Called "The Big Apple" and How 8 Other Famous Cities Got Their Nicknames

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Periods of American Literature

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5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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6 Wars of Independence

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Which Religion Is the Oldest?

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Causes of the Great Depression

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Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

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Born	April 13, 1832 • Ambato • Ecuador
Died	January 17, 1889 (aged 56) • Paris • France

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Jorge Icaza

Ecuadorian writer

José Joaquín Olmedo

Ecuadorian writer

Victoria Ocampo

Argentine editor and publisher

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

Afrânio Coutinho

Brazilian writer and literary critic

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine author

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

Paulo Coelho

Brazilian author

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

Rachel de Queiroz

Brazilian novelist

José Martí

Cuban patriot

José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

Ernesto Sábato

Argentine writer

Ernesto Cardenal

Nicaraguan poet and priest

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Jaime Torres Bodet

Mexican writer and statesman

Antonio Benítez Rojo

Cuban writer

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Cuban author

Roberto Fernández Retamar

Cuban author and critic

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