Rafael Arévalo Martínez

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Born	July 25, 1884 • Guatemala City • Guatemala
Died	June 12, 1975 (aged 90) • Guatemala City • Guatemala
Notable Works	“The Man Who Looked Like a Horse”

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Guatemalan author and diplomat

César Vallejo

Peruvian poet

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Argentine author

Augusto Roa Bastos

Paraguayan writer

Cristina Peri Rossi

Uruguayan writer

Álvaro Mutis

Colombian author

Miguel Barnet

Cuban writer

José Emilio Pacheco

Mexican author

Rosario Castellanos

Mexican writer

Mario Benedetti

Uruguayan writer

Manuel Rojas

Chilean writer

José Rubén Romero

Mexican author

Rufino Blanco-Fombona

Venezuelan writer

John Banim

Irish author

Concha Espina de Serna

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

D.H. Lawrence

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Aleksandr Pushkin

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Ivan Turgenev

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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