Ema Wolf se graduó en Lenguas y Literaturas Modernas en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Colaboró en distintos medios periodísticos y empezó a publicar textos para chicos a mediados de los años 70. Su primer libro, Barbanegra y los buñuelos, apareció 1984 y desde entonces participó activamente en el campo de la literatura para chicos con novelas, cuentos, artículos y conferencias brindadas en Argentina y el exterior. Algunos de sus libros fueron traducidos al holandés, italiano, portugués y alemán. Su trabajo ha sido ampliamente reconocido. Por Historias a Fernández ganó el Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil 1994 y fue finalista en el Casa de las Américas. En 1994 y 2004 recibió el Konex al mérito. Tres veces fue nominada por la Argentina para el Premio Hans Christian Andersen. Varios de sus libros fueron recomendados por The White Ravens, el Banco del Libro de Venezuela y la Lista de Honor IBBY. En 2006 El turno del escriba, novela para adultos escrita en colaboración con Graciela Montes, ganó el Premio Alfaguara de Novela en 2005, España. From: http://www.alfaguara.com/ar/autor/ema...

Marco Denevi (May 12, 1922 in Sáenz Peña, Buenos Aires – December 12, 1998) was an Argentine award-winning author of novels and short stories, as well as a lawyer and journalist. His work is characterized by its originiality and depth, as well as a criticism of human incompetence. His first work, a mystery called Rosaura a las diez (1955), was a Kraft award winner and a bestseller. In 1964, it was translated into English as Rosa at Ten O'Clock. Other famous works of his include Los expedientes (1957), Ceremonia Secreta (1960), El cuarto de la noche (1962), and Falsificaciones (1966). He is less known as an essayist, but he also cultivated this genre with his República de Trapalanda (1989), a late work, in which he takes on Ezequiel Martínez Estrada and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's view of the Argentine republic. He was born in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at a young age he began playing the piano and reading. He graduated from college in 1939, and did not receive his law degree until 1956. In 1987 he was inducted into the Argentine Academy of Letters.

Ricardo Mariño is an Argentinian writer, journalist and scripwriter, mostly known for his children books. He has worked for Children's magazines like Billiken, Humi, AZ Diez and for Clarín's and Página/12's Sunday supplements. Previously he worked as a journalist at the press agency DAN, scriptwriter of children's TV programs, and director of the literary magazine Mascaró between 1985 and 1988. He was a workshop instructor at the Dirección Nacional del Libro between 1987 and 1989. He was also jury at various writing competitions.

It was on April 15, 1452, that Leonardo was born in the town of Vinci, Republic of Florence, in what is now in Italy, the illegitimate son of a notary and a barmaid. It is from his birthplace that he is known as Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo seemed to master every subject to which he turned his attention: he was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer, wrote poetry and stories: the prototype Renaissance man! His Last Supper (1495-97) and Mona Lisa (La Gioconda, 1503-06) are among the most popular paintings from the Renaissance. He and his rival Michelangelo did great service to the medical arts by accurate paintings of dissections, which were only occasionally allowed by the Church. Yet, his artistry appeared to be an afterthought, as he frequently left his works unfinished, and only about fifteen of his paintings survive. His notebooks reveal that he was centuries ahead of his time in mechanics and physic, fortifications, bridges, weapons, and river diversions to flood the enemy, which aided Italian city-states in their many wars. Leonardo was an early evolutionist regarding fossils. Through his careful observations he noted that “if the shells had been carried by the muddy deluge they would have been mixed up, and separated from each other amidst the mud, and not in regular steps and layers—as we see them now in our time.” Leonardo reasoned that what is now dry land, where these aquatic fossils were found, must once have been covered by seawater. He was for a short time accused of homosexuality: there is no evidence Leonardo had any sexual interest in women. As he wrote in his notebooks, “The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions.” And what of his religion? It is significant that at the end of his life he felt he had much spiritual negligence to atone for. His first biographer, Giorgio Vasari, wrote in 1550: "Finally, …feeling himself near to death, [he] asked to have himself diligently informed of the teaching of the Catholic faith, and of the good way and holy Christian religion; and then, with many moans, he confessed and was penitent; and … was pleased to take devoutly the most holy Sacrament, out of his bed. The King, who was wont often and lovingly to visit him, then came into the room; wherefore he, out of reverence … showed withal how much he had offended God and mankind in not having worked at his art as he should have done." There was much skepticism in Renaissance Italy at the time, and Leonardo was an intellectual genius, not just an artistic genius. While there was great intellectual freedom during the Italian Renaissance, there were limits as long as the Dominicans, the “Hounds of the Lord,” were active. This semblance of a deathbed conversion, by so critical a thinker and so great a genius as Leonardo, who would have nothing to lose by professing piety all his life, can only mean that during his prime years he was a secret freethinker. Leonardo died quietly on the 2 of May, 1519, a few weeks following his 67th birthday.

Elsa Isabel Bornemann was an Argentine author. She wrote stories, songs, novels and theater pieces for children and young adults. Elsa Bornemann nació el 20 de febrero de 1952 en el barrio porteño de Parque Patricios. Maestra Normal Nacional, obtuvo su título en el Normal № 11 Ricardo Levene. Se recibió de Licenciada en Letras en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, se doctoró y obtuvo varios diplomas de estudio en medicina y en idioma inglés, alemán, italiano, latín, griego clásico y hebreo. El 25 de mayo de 2013, la editorial Alfaguara infantil informó por las redes sociales su fallecimiento. Durante la última dictadura militar que gobernó Argentina, autodenominada Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, su libro "Un elefante ocupa mucho espacio" fue censurado y pasó a integrar la lista de autores prohibidos. Ese mismo libro integró la Lista de Honor de IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People). Más tarde, sus libros El último mago o Bilembambudín y Disparatario fueron seleccionados para integrar la lista The White Ravens, distinción que otorga la Internationale Jugendbibliothek de Múnich, Alemania. Ha realizado numerosos cursos y talleres sobre literatura con su profesor Manuel Kedes tanto en Argentina como en otros países de América, de Europa y Japón. Muchas de sus obras han sido reproducidas en libros de lectura para la escuela primaria, en manuales de Literatura para distintos niveles, y en antologías argentinas y del exterior. From Wikipedia:http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Bor...

Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide his poetry from his father, a rigid man who wanted his son to have a "practical" occupation. Neruda's pen name was derived from Czech writer and poet Jan Neruda; Pablo is thought to be from Paul Verlaine. With his works translated into many languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Neruda was accomplished in a variety of styles, ranging from erotically charged love poems like his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature, a controversial award because of his political activism. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." On July 15, 1945, at Pacaembu Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, he read to 100,000 people in honor of Communist revolutionary leader Luís Carlos Prestes. When Neruda returned to Chile after his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Salvador Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70,000 people. During his lifetime, Neruda occupied many diplomatic posts and served a stint as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When Conservative Chilean President González Videla outlawed communism in Chile, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hid him for months in a house basement in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. Later, Neruda escaped into exile through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina. Years later, Neruda was a close collaborator to socialist President Salvador Allende. Neruda was hospitalized with cancer at the time of the Chilean coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet. Three days after being hospitalized, Neruda died of heart failure. Already a legend in life, Neruda's death reverberated around the world. Pinochet had denied permission to transform Neruda's funeral into a public event. However, thousands of grieving Chileans disobeyed the curfew and crowded the streets to pay their respects. Neruda's funeral became the first public protest against the Chilean military dictatorship.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They were married in 1855. Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather. At the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875. From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and Sheffield. While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. His first published story appeared in "Chambers' Edinburgh Journal" before he was 20. Following his graduation, he was employed as a ship's doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast. He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885. In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie". She suffered from tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. The following year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897. Due to his sense of loyalty he had maintained a purely platonic relationship with Jean while his first wife was alive. Jean died in London on 27 June 1940. Conan Doyle fathered five children. Two with his first wife—Mary Louise (28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976), and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (15 November 1892 – 28 October 1918). With his second wife he had three children—Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955), second husband in 1936 of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani (circa 1910 – 19 February 1987; former sister-in-law of Barbara Hutton); Adrian Malcolm (19 November 1910–3 June 1970) and Jean Lena Annette (21 December 1912–18 November 1997). Conan Doyle was found clutching his chest in the hall of Windlesham, his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, on 7 July 1930. He had died of a heart attack at age 71. His last words were directed toward his wife: "You are wonderful." The epitaph on his gravestone in the churchyard at Minstead in the New Forest, Hampshire, reads: STEEL TRUE BLADE STRAIGHT ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE KNIGHT PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS Conan Doyle's house, Undershaw, located in Hindhead, south of London, where he had lived for a decade, had been a hotel and restaurant between 1924 and 2004. It now stands empty while conservationists and Conan Doyle fans fight to preserve it. A statue honours Conan Doyle at Crowborough Cross in Crowborough, where Conan Doyle lived for 23 years. There is also a statue of Sherlock Holmes in Picardy Place, Edinburgh, close to the house where Conan Doyle was born. Series: * Sherlock Holmes

Ana María Shua has earned a prominent place in contemporary Argentine fiction with the publication of many books in nearly every genre: novels, short stories, short short stories, poetry, children's fiction, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays. Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Islandic, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literary prizes in 1967. She went on to study at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and worked as an advertising copywriter and journalist during the early stages of her career. Since then, she has received numerous national and international awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel El libro de los recuerdos(The Book of Memories, 1994). Her other novels include Soy Paciente (Patient, 1980), Los amores de Laurita (Laurita's Loves,1984), which was made into a movie, La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997). and El peso de la tentación (The Weight of Temptation, 2007). Her first four microfiction books have been published in Madrid in one volume: Cazadores de Letras, (Letter’s Hunters, 2009). Her complete short stories have been published as Que tengas una vida interesante (Buenos Aires, 2009). Her last microfiction book is Fenómenos de circo in 2011. She published Contra el tiempo, short-stories, in 2013

Luis María Pescetti nació en San Jorge, provincia de Santa Fe, en 1958. Es compositor, comediante y escritor. Fue profesor de música en escuelas, y colaboró en el Plan Nacional de Lectura de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación (Argentina), viajando por todo el país, con charlas, seminarios y talleres sobre creatividad y animación musical. Trabajó en radio, televisión y teatros de Cuba, Estados Unidos, España, Colombia, Chile, Brasil, Perú, Uruguay, México y Argentina, últimos dos países en donde continúa haciendo radio. Tiene editados seis discos y más de veinte libros publicados en diversos países de América Latina y España, varios de ellos con premios nacionales e internacionales, como Premio Nacional Cuadro de Honor de la Literatura Infantil 1997; Premio Destacados de ALIJA-IBBY, 1998 y 2002; Mención The White Ravens, 1998, 2001 y 2005. Con el disco doble Vampiro negro y Cassette pirata recibió el a premio Grammy 2010 Mejor álbum de música latina para niños. Ha vendido más de un millón de ejemplares en Latinoamérica y España. Entre sus libros para niños que se destacan Caperucita Roja (tal como se la contaron a Jorge), Natacha, El pulpo está crudo, Historias de los señores Moc y Poc y Frin, novela por la que ganó varios premios. Su personaje, Natacha, apareció por primera vez en 1997. Desde entonces, la serie de los siete libros de Natacha ha realizado un importante recorrido, y constituye actualmente una de las propuestas literarias con más notoriedad entre el público infantil, los docentes y las familias. También publicó libros para adultos: Qué fácil es estar en pareja, La vida y otros síntomas, Copyright y El ciudadano de mis zapatos, que en 1997 ganó el Premio Casa de las Américas, Cuba. El estilo de Pescetti se caracteriza por su fino humor, la ironía y la observación precisa de lo que sucede en el mundo infantil. En su prosa se reflejan lo cotidiano, el lenguaje coloquial, las situaciones típicas de cualquier niño contemporáneo en su entorno doméstico, al tiempo que no elude las problemáticas que atañen a lo más hondo de los sentimientos y emociones de los chicos y sus familias. Aquí el humor no trivializa, no aligera, no evade la realidad; sino que parodia, pone en crisis y cuestiona. From:http://www.librosalfaguarainfantil.co...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry. He never returned to Ireland or Britain, and died in poverty.

María Laura Devetach is an Argentinian writer, poet and teacher. She mainly writes children books. She has also written radio and TV plays. She has been, alongside Argentinian writers like María Elena Walsh, Graciela Montes, Ema Wolf, Ricardo Mariño or Elsa Bornemann, a precursor of children's literature. Her books were forbidden during the military dictatorship that governed the country between 1976 y 1983. She has published more than ninety works, most of them Children books, although there are also essays, poetry books and short stories that aim for adult readers. These books have accompanied many generations of readers since 1965. Many of those titles still continue to be reissued. She has recieved many national and international prizes and awards, amongst them an Honoris causa doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, the Octogonal prize from the Centro Internacional de estudios de la Juventud from París, the honorary list from the IBBY9, the Premio Konex 2004 in the category Children's Literature and the Premio Iberoamericano SM de literatura infantil y juvenil. She was married to Gustavo Roldán (deceased 2012), also a children books writer, and they co-authored various books. They had two children, Laura y Gustavo. The last one is an artist and has illustrated some of her works.

Enrique Anderson Imbert fue un escritor, ensayista, crítico literario y profesor universitario argentino. Son reputados sus ensayos sobre la historia literaria hispanoamericana. (Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, 1954; Spanish American Literature - A History, en 2 volúmenes, 1963; El realismo mágico y otros ensayos, 1979; La crítica literaria y sus otros métodos, 1979; Mentiras y mentirosos en el mundo de las letras, 1992), y sus estudios sobre Domingo Faustino Sarmiento y Rubén Darío. Es también autor de novelas y de libros de cuentos (El Grimorio, 1961; La locura juega al ajedrez, 1971; Los primeros cuentos del mundo, 1978; Anti-Story: an anthology of experimental fiction, 1971; Imperial Messages, 1976).