Manuel Galich

Recognized writer, playwright, and politician, he was born in Guatemala in 1913.

In the 1940s, he was an important university leader against the dictatorship.
by Jorge Ubico. His book "From Panic to Attack" is a testimonial work, in
where it recounts the struggles of his generation against the dictator.
He was a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic in 1952 when he won the presidency.
Jacobo Arbenz. During the democratic decade of 1944-1954, he came to hold
various positions, among which we can mention that he was President of
Congress of the Republic, Minister of Education, and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Outcomes during the Arbenz government.
In the year 1954, when the CIA funded the coup against Jacobo
Arbenz, Manuel Galich was in Argentina. He went into exile in Cuba, where
He was the Deputy Director of the Casa de las Américas.
He passed away in Havana, Cuba, in 1984.

Estela Molina Samayoa

Renowned Guatemalan writer, born in the capital of the country.
Fighter woman from the beginning. She was part of the Disclosure Committee.
Cultural of the Guatemalan Red Cross. It had the privilege of being the first
woman in joining the Association of Managers of Guatemala. She was a speaker
in Professional Seminars.
She is a great example of what self-improvement is, since in 1965 because of
After a surgical intervention, the right side of the body was paralyzed as well.
to lose the ability to speak for this reason. Without giving up, she started with a
exhausting but rewarding rehabilitation, which allowed him to improve his situation.
With the intention of moving forward, he learned to write with his left hand,
what helped him to make his art known; The Writing.

Some of his most well-known publications are:

I love humanity
Mother, You gift peace
The skein of my talk
Towards the summit
Enfrenta tu día
This year is blooming
Raise your hands, among others
Light Valley
Guatemalan writer, born on October 19, 1896.
Leave his mark with his literary and charitable work, the latter being of great help for
the country.
Director of the program "The Voice of the Home", founder and director of the magazine
"Nosotras," which was published from 1933 to 1943, was the editor-in-chief of the
Espiral magazine was one of the initiators of the newspaper 'El Imparcial'. Likewise,
Founder of the Guatemalan Red Cross.

Some of his publications are:

The Miracle of September
The Diamond Cross
Round of the Sierra
On the Eve of Freedom
Independence Print
He passes away at the age of 75, on May 3, 1971

Otto Rene Castillo

Guatemalan writer, born in the department of Quetzaltenango in the year
1936. Poet and essayist, he was recognized with several awards such as: the Prize
Central American Poetry of the José Simeón Cañas University of El Salvador
Salvador in the year 1955. He was recognized with the Autonomy Award.
the USAC in the year 1956. Internationally recognized with the Award
International Poetry of the World Federation of Democratic Youth,
In Budapest, Hungary in 1957. Founded the Municipal Theatre of Guatemala.

Some of his most important writings are:

Let's go to the homeland to walk
Exile
Report of an injustice
So that hope would not fade away

Enrique Gómez Carrillo

Born in Guatemala in the year 1873.
He became known for his chronicles, which gained great renown not only in the
Not only in the country but also in the rest of America and Europe.
Writer of great works and immortal novels, which still form part of the
taste of the readers,

Among his chronicles we find:

Chronicles throughout the year
Second Book of Chronicles
Third Book of Chronicles
Fourth book of chronicles
Among his novels we find:
Of love, of pain, and of vice
Sentimental Bohemias
Wonders

Augusto Monterroso Bonilla

Born on December 21, 1921. Worked in the diplomatic corps of
Guatemala won the Magda Donato prize in 1969; the Xavier
Villaurrutia in 1975; the Order of the Aztec Eagle in 1988. In Guatemala, he received
in 1952 the Saketi National Short Story Prize, In 1993 he was appointed by
unanimity as the winner of the Tenth edition of the Literary Prize of
Italo-Latin American Institute (Rome). He is a very talented writer.
incisive. Narrator, translator, and essayist; Self-taught.

His most notable works are:

Personal Anthology
One every three and the centenary. The Present Ones
Journey to the center of the fable
The black sheep and other fables
The Concert and the Eclipse
The magic word

Carlos Manuel Pellecer

Born in Antigua Guatemala, on January 17, 1920. Poet and essayist. He had
to go into exile in the year 1944, due to the triumph of the revolution of
1944; requesting political asylum in Argentina. Later, he was exiled to
Czechoslovakia. Working in a Cuban newspaper. He was appointed general consul.
in the Netherlands; Ambassador of Guatemala in Mexico. Finally in 1947
He was appointed Consul of Houston, Texas, in the United States.

Some of his most notable works are:

Flare in the mountains
Useful after dead
Gentlemen without hope
Letter from an exiled Guatemalan
Between the Sickle and the Hammer
Renunciation of communism
An archangel named Claire

Luz Méndez de la Vega

She was born in Guatemala in 1919. She is a poet, storyteller, essayist, journalist and
literature professor. Author of numerous essays, poetry anthologies
Guatemalan and literary research, her work has earned her several
important awards, among them the Miguel Angel National Literature Award
Asturias in 1994. Graduated in Letters, with doctoral studies in the
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; and Guatemalan academic of the
Language corresponding to the Royal Spanish Academy.

From their work we can mention:

Poetry:
Flower of Various Poetry (anthology of faculty poets from the...
Humanities of the USAC) (1978).
- Eva sin Dios (1979).
- Tríptico (Tiempo de amor, Tiempo de llanto y Desamor) (1980).
- Of Words and Shadow. (First Prize of the Permanent Contest
Central American September 15, 1983.
The Silenced Voices (Feminist Poems).
- Poetisas Desmitificadas (1984).
- Hellenics. (1998).

Flavio Herrera
(1895-1968)
He was born in Guatemala City on February 18, 1895. Poet and writer.
He completed his early studies at the College of Infants and at the Central Institute.
for Men. At the young age of 13, he had already begun in the world
literary and wrote for the Juan Chapín Magazine. He graduated as a Lawyer and Notary.
at Manuel Estrada Cabrera University (1918), winning the Gálvez prize of
that year for his professional thesis. Later, he complemented his studies with
some legal disciplines at the University of Rome, and law
constitutional law and literature, at the Central University of Madrid.

Poetry:

The Wing of the Mountain (old verses)

- Sinfonías del Trópico (Hai-kais, 1923)
Bulbuxyá (Hai-kais, 1930)
Tropic (Hai-kais, 1931)
Indio Cosmos (Hai-kais, 1938)
- Palo Verde (Hai-kais, 1946)
Autumn Gold
José Milla y Vidaurre "Salomé Jil"
(1822-1882)
One of the main Guatemalan writers, prominent and considered for his work
as national heritage. His books are signed under the pseudonym of
Salomé Jil. Born on August 4, 1822, in the city of Guatemala. She carried out her
primeros estudios en el Colegio Seminario, y luego en la Escuela de Derecho de la
University of San Carlos Borromeo. However, he left the legal sciences.
to pursue his imminent calling: literature. First, he supported the ideology.
liberal, but he began his career as a bureaucrat with the conservative government of
Rafael Carrera. There he held important positions, such as: Secretary of the
Brotherhood of Charity of the General Hospital of Guatemala, Official of the
Secretariat of Foreign Relations, and Undersecretary General of the Government.

International Poets
Biography of Pablo Neruda
This Chilean poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 and one of the most
recognized in terms of the exponent of poetry corresponding to the twentieth century. Its true
the name is not so well known, Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, of Chilean origin, born on the 10th of
July 1904.
Despite being born in Parral, Pablo Neruda spent his childhood in the town of Temuco.
He moves to the port of Talcahuano to work there as a laborer.
dikes of that place; later on, he achieves the position of railway in the Temuco station.

Poems
To my obligations
A Rafael Alberti
To everyone, to you...
To a bow statue (elegy)
Sexual water
Biografía de Antonio Machado
Antonio Cipriano José María Machado Ruiz was a poet who was born in the city of Seville in
1875, specifically on July 26. It is best known for belonging to the Generation of
98.
This movement was made up of a group of writers who were born in this era and who
They were affected by the crisis that Spain was going through at the time.

Poems
A Don Miguel de Unamuno
To Mr. Ramón del Valle Inclán
To José María Palacio To Juan Ramón Jiménez
To the deserted square
On the Death of Rubén Darío
On the banks of the Duero

Biography of Federico García Lorca

He was born on June 5, 1898, in the municipality of Fuentes Vaqueros in Spain. Registered
officially as Federico of the Sacred Heart of Jesus García Lorca.
His parents: Federico García Rodríguez and Vicenta Lorca Romero, the latter, responsible for
instill a taste for literature. They lived and formed a family in a house that is now
a museum dedicated to its history.

Poems
Adam
Dawn
Absent soul
You are noisy
Song tree
Tree Tree
ArchersDance

Biography of Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral, whose real name was Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy
Alcayaga was born in the city of Vicuña, Chile, on April 7, 1889, but what is the origin of
his pseudonym?
This arises from the work of Frédéric Mistral and Gabriele D’Annunzio, and admiration for the Chilean poet.
for the works of both authors, so he took the first name of one and the last name of the other to
build their artistic identity.

Poems
Goodbye
Water
I love love
Attached to me Recited by its author
Sunset
Absence
Ballad
Ballad of my name

Biografía de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was born in Seville on February 17, 1836. During his life, he was recognized
as a poet and storyteller who represented the Romanticism movement. His father was José
Domínguez Insausti, a renowned painter who used the artistic surname Bécquer. This
dies when Gustavo turns 5 years old in 1841. The brother was a painter and was the one who
he created the most famous portrait of Gustavo Adolfo.

Poems
Eternal love
Rima I
Rhyme II

Biography of Luis Cernuda

Luis Cernuda Bidou was born in the Andalusian city of Seville on September 21, 1902.
father was a military man and thanks to this Luis was raised under a strict education but
Unfortunately, his father passed away when Luis was just a few years old, so he could not
enjoy the talent of the poet.
In his poem The Family, Cernuda describes his father as 'taciturn' and his mother as 'melancholic';
also highlights the lack of communication. This is a work that Cernuda carried out over the course of the
years, when I was already more hardened.

Poems
I wish
With you
I will tell you how you were born.
Biografía de Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti was born on September 14, 1920, in Paso de los Toros, specifically in the
department of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. His father Brenno Benedetti and his mother Matilde Farugia,
he is named Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno. At the age of 4, his family moves
in Montevideo, where primary education begins at the German School and secondary education at the Lyceum
Miranda.
Due to his family's financial problems, he started working at an automotive company.
at 14 years old. Thus began a working life in which he worked his way up from a salesperson to
journalist and translator.

Poems
What are you laughing at?

Why are there no more trips to the moon?

What do young people have left?
To the left of the oak Recited by its author
A Roque

Obra y biografía de Miguel Hernández

Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a Spanish playwright and poet born in Orihuela (Alicante) on the 30th
in October 1910, born into a humble family and raised in a rural environment
nature.
He is considered one of the main poets of the 20th century, belonging to the generation of 21.
but traditionally related to the generation of '36.

Poems
Olive pickers
He/She did not want to be

Winds of the village carry me

Onion's nannies

Biography of
Octavio Paz was born on March 31, 1914, in the Mexican capital; he is the son of a journalist.
homonymous, also of great renown. He quickly entered the world of reading already
that he carried in his blood thanks to the family where he was born.
Such was his speed that at just 17 years old he founded the magazine named 'Barandal' and
he published his first novel under the same name. Shortly after, he founded notebooks of
Valley–Mexico, so it was evident that this young man would not leave any doubt about his talent.
Poems
End it all
Two bodies
The broken pitcher
The unknown
The bird

Biography of Rafael Alberti

Rafael Alberti Merello was born in Spain on December 16, 1902. He was a poet who was part of
of the famous Generation of 27. He passed away on October 28, 1999, in the same city where
born and raised; Port of Santa María. Studied at the Jesuit School in the same city until the
15 years old, when he dropped out of school to become a full-time painter, so he moved to
Madrid to start developing in this art that significantly influenced greatly
part of their contributions to the world.

Poems
To gallop
Cover me, love, the sky of the mouth
The pink girl, sitting