Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, usually referred to as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: [xoɾxe lwis boɾxes]), was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. Borges was fluent in several languages. He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime, and supported the military juntas that overthrew it. Due to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1986. J. M. Coetzee said of Borges: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists."

Soriano became a staff writer at La Opinión right from the start in 1971 when editor Jacobo Timerman founded the newspaper. La Opinión was permeated with progressive politics and soon there was an attempt to squash the left-wing influence with-in the paper. After six months of not having any of his articles published, Soriano began writing a story in which a character named Osvaldo Soriano reconstructs the life of English actor Stan Laurel. The work became his first novel, Triste, solitario y final (English: Sad, lonely and final), a melancholic parody set in Los Angeles with the famed fictional Philip Marlowe detective as his joint investigator. It was some months after the publication of his novel that he visited the American city, and actually stood by the grave of Stan Laurel, leaving there a copy of his book. Shortly after the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional coup d'etat in Argentina in 1976, he moved to Brussels first (where he met his wife Catherine), and then to Paris, where he lived in exile until 1984. While in France he befriended Julio Cortázar with whom he founded the short-lived experience of the monthly magazine Sin censura. After the fall of the military junta he returned to Buenos Aires and the publication of his books were met with large success, not only in South America but also in Italy and several other countries where his works begun to be translated and published. In his books, Soriano succeeded in mixing his experiences as a democratic activist and as a strong critic of the violence wielded by reactionary governments with extraordinary humour. A lover of both football/soccer and cinematography, he often honored both in his work. Soriano was a known San Lorenzo fan. After his death in 1997, he was buried in the La Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires. His work has since been translated into at least fifteen different languages, and has inspired film directors and producers on fiction and documentary works based on his novels and life-experience.

Elvio Eduardo Gandolfo es un escritor, traductor, antologista y periodista argentino que ha trabajado tanto la poesía, como el cuento, la novela y el ensayo. Nació en 1947 en San Rafael pero creció en Rosario. También vivió en Montevideo, Piriápolis y Buenos Aires, alternando su país de residencia entre Argentina y Uruguay con frecuencia. Dirigió la revista literaria El lagrimal trifurca (1968-1976) con Francisco, su padre, y la Editorial Municipal de Rosario (1999-2000). Compiló antologías de diferentes géneros. Tradujo obras de Tennesse Williams, Henry James, Choderlos de Laclos, Norman Mailer, C. S. Lewis, Jack London, Philip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft y muchos otros. Trabajó en numerosos medios de prensa de Buenos Aires y Montevideo como Jaque, El péndulo, Clarín, Perfil, Punto y aparte, Opinión, Radar de Página, El País, Crónicas económicas, La Razón, Opinar, Canal-4, SuperHumor, V de Vian, Andrómeda, Adiax y Minotauro, entre muchos otros. Escribe la sección Libros de la revista Noticias. Integra desde el principio el equipo coordinador de El país cultural. Asimismo, condujo el programa Los libros y el viento en TV Ciudad de Montevideo. Su libro Boomerang fue Finalista del Premio Planeta en 1992 y en 2014 ganó el premio Konex (Diploma al Mérito).

Alejandro Ricardo Dolina (born May 20, 1945) is an Argentine broadcaster, who also achieved renown as a musician and a writer. Dolina was born in Baigorrita, Buenos Aires Province, and spent his childhood years in Caseros, a middle-class suburb of Buenos Aires city, with Yugoslav (in his own words -he never referred to a particular ethnic group in the defunct country) and Italian ancestry (he has also reminded his audiences that Dolina is a word preserved in many Slavic languages, meaning valley). He pursued music and writing since childhood. Although he steadfastly refuses to discuss his private life, he often recalls anecdotes about time spent in his youth in the company of musicians and professional gamblers (he confesses of having worked for a while as a dice man at an illegal casino, until his acquaintance Manuel Evequoz "rescued" him, preventing his going further astray and offering him the first jobs in the advertising business). In the early 1970s, Dolina made inroads into advertising copywriting and started publishing articles in Satiricón magazine, which was read for laughs but often provided deeper reflections on politics, society, and life in general. His main partner in this adventure was Carlos Trillo, who was also an advertising man and would later become a successful comics writer. In 1978, with Satiricón closed by the military dictatorship, Dolina started writing in Humor magazine, which treaded much more carefully to avoid closure or an even worse fate. During these years, Dolina (himself a moderate Peronist) wrote essays about honor, love, friendship, and invented a mythology centered on the Gray Angel of Flores neighborhood, fictitious writer Manuel Mandeb (according to himself, inspired by Manuel Evequoz, the man who had helped him in his early youth), using them as a pretext to deal with universal themes. These stories have since been published in the book "Crónicas del Ángel Gris" ("Chronicles of the Gray Angel") in 1987, and later morphed into a musical. With the return of democracy in 1983, Dolina started hosting a successful late radio show: originally named Demasiado tarde para lágrimas ("Too late for tears"). For several years he enjoyed a growing success; in 1987 he was voted the best humourist in a poll conducted by a primetime TV show, leaving behind some legendary comic actors such as Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel, still active back then. In 1988 he started his own TV show La Barra de Dolina ("Dolina's Gang"); the show was daring enough to include soccer matches featuring some retired stars, and even St. Peter's & St. Paul's bonfires, an old more (safety matters aside, it's held as a bad omen to have real fire in a TV studio). As in his radio show, he'd greet members of the audience in person. In 1990 and 1991 Dolina kept his TV show once a week, while his daily radio show went on a hiatus. Its name was later changed for contractual reasons, in 1992 to El Ombligo del Mundo (a name shared by his resumed radio show and by a Saturday night TV-show); in 1993 he drops the TV show while the radio show gets its current name: La venganza será terrible ("Revenge will be terrible"). In 1991 he was nominated for the "TV or Radio Host" Konex Award for his work in the show. In spite of changes in the radio or TV station the show format suffered only minor changes since its inception in the mid '80s. To accommodate live audiences (free admittance until the place is full) many live studios were used: the Radio El Mundo (radio) and Canal 11 [1988] and ATC[1990, 1991] (TV) auditoriums; those at the House of Buenos Aires province [1989], House of Entre Ríos province [1989]; the Insurance Workers' Union [1992]. Then, the two-hour show was broadcast live Monday to Friday at midnight originally from the basement of the famous Café Tortoni. Due to security reasons, after República Cromagnon nightclub fire, it was transferred in 2005 to the Hotel Bauen, a recuperated business.

José Pablo Feinmann es un filósofo, docente, escritor, ensayista, guionista y conductor de televisión argentino. En 1973 fue fundador del Centro de Estudios del Pensamiento Latinoamericano, en el Departamento de Filosofía de la UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Posteriormente trabajó como colaborador en diversos medios periodísticos. Fue un activo militante de la JP (Juventud Peronista) en los años setenta, considerando al peronismo como un verdadero movimiento de masas revolucionario. Siempre se opuso al uso de la violencia con fines políticos, sobre todo al foquismo guevarista, el cual—años después del triunfo de la revolución cubana—se volvió bastante popular dentro de algunos sectores de la izquierda peronista (como las guerrillas de Montoneros y de las Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas). Finalmente abandonó el peronismo en los años noventa, durante el gobierno de Carlos Menem. Sus estudios sobre la historia del peronismo son muy conocidos y debatidos por otros historiadores. Suele escribir para el periódico Página/12 (incluyendo notas editoriales) sobre actualidad política, literatura y cine. Por otro lado, desde 2008 conduce los programas de televisión Filosofía aquí y ahora, emitido por el canal Encuentro (del Ministerio de Educación de Argentina), y Cine contexto, emitido por Canal 7.

Realizó labores periodísticas en diversos diarios y revistas como Clarín, La Opinión, Humor y Super Humor. Además creó las revistas "Feriado Nacional" y "Fierro". Es autor de varias novelas policiales y publicó también varias novelas de aventuras. Guionizó también la historieta "Perramus", dibujada por Alberto Breccia, que obtuvo el Premio Amnesty Internacional para el área francófona en 1988. En 1990 recibió el Premio Internacional Semana Negra de Gijón por su relato "Con tinta sangre".