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).

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (芥川 龍之介) was one of the first prewar Japanese writers to achieve a wide foreign readership, partly because of his technical virtuosity, partly because his work seemed to represent imaginative fiction as opposed to the mundane accounts of the I-novelists of the time, partly because of his brilliant joining of traditional material to a modern sensibility, and partly because of film director Kurosawa Akira's masterful adaptation of two of his short stories for the screen. Akutagawa was born in the Kyōbashi district Tokyo as the eldest son of a dairy operator named Shinbara Toshizō and his wife Fuku. He was named "Ryūnosuke" ("Dragon Offshoot") because he was born in the Year of the Dragon, in the Month of the Dragon, on the Day of the Dragon, and at the Hour of the Dragon (8 a.m.). Seven months after Akutagawa's birth, his mother went insane and he was adopted by her older brother, taking the Akutagawa family name. Despite the shadow this experience cast over Akutagawa's life, he benefited from the traditional literary atmosphere of his uncle's home, located in what had been the "downtown" section of Edo. At school Akutagawa was an outstanding student, excelling in the Chinese classics. He entered the First High School in 1910, striking up relationships with such classmates as Kikuchi Kan, Kume Masao, Yamamoto Yūzō, and Tsuchiya Bunmei. Immersing himself in Western literature, he increasingly came to look for meaning in art rather than in life. In 1913, he entered Tokyo Imperial University, majoring in English literature. The next year, Akutagawa and his former high school friends revived the journal Shinshichō (New Currents of Thought), publishing translations of William Butler Yeats and Anatole France along with original works of their own. Akutagawa published the story Rashōmon in the magazine Teikoku bungaku (Imperial Literature) in 1915. The story, which went largely unnoticed, grew out of the egoism Akutagawa confronted after experiencing disappointment in love. The same year, Akutagawa started going to the meetings held every Thursday at the house of Natsume Sōseki, and thereafter considered himself Sōseki's disciple. The lapsed Shinshichō was revived yet again in 1916, and Sōseki lavished praise on Akutagawa's story Hana (The Nose) when it appeared in the first issue of that magazine. After graduating from Tokyo University, Akutagawa earned a reputation as a highly skilled stylist whose stories reinterpreted classical works and historical incidents from a distinctly modern standpoint. His overriding themes became the ugliness of human egoism and the value of art, themes that received expression in a number of brilliant, tightly organized short stories conventionally categorized as Edo-mono (stories set in the Edo period), ōchō-mono (stories set in the Heian period), Kirishitan-mono (stories dealing with premodern Christians in Japan), and kaika-mono (stories of the early Meiji period). The Edo-mono include Gesaku zanmai (A Life Devoted to Gesaku, 1917) and Kareno-shō (Gleanings from a Withered Field, 1918); the ōchō-mono are perhaps best represented by Jigoku hen (Hell Screen, 1918); the Kirishitan-mono include Hokōnin no shi (The Death of a Christian, 1918), and kaika-mono include Butōkai(The Ball, 1920). Akutagawa married Tsukamoto Fumiko in 1918 and the following year left his post as English instructor at the naval academy in Yokosuka, becoming an employee of the Mainichi Shinbun. This period was a productive one, as has already been noted, and the success of stories like Mikan (Mandarin Oranges, 1919) and Aki (Autumn, 1920) prompted him to turn his attention increasingly to modern materials. This, along with the introspection occasioned by growing health and nervous problems, resulted in a series of autobiographically-based stories known as Yasukichi-mono, after the name of the main character. Works such as Daidōji Shinsuke no hansei(The Early Life of

Gabriel Jiménez Emán Nace el 21 de Junio (Caracas, 1950), escritor venezolano, narrador, poeta, ensayista, compilador y traductor, destacando más en el ámbito de la narrativa y la poética,la cual ha sido traducida a varios idiomas y recogida en antologías latinoamericanas y europeas. Es traductor de poesía de lengua inglesa y editor independiente. Dirige la revista y las ediciones Imaginaria, dedicadas a lo inquietante y lo fantástico. Dirige Imagen. Revista latinoamericana de Cultura, publicación del Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura (Caracas, Venezuela, 2013).1​

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

Marcelo Birmajer was born the 29th of November of 1966 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His pearents were jews that emigrated to this country from Europe. At the age of twenty years old he started working as a writer for "Fierro" magazine (argentinian comic magazine). After that he also worked for several newspapers as a writter and he also wrote some movie scripts. Marcelo's first contact whit book writing was caused by Pablo De Santis, a fellow writter he met in Fierro magazine. He was organizing some book collection, and he asked Marcelo to write some short novels. That's when he wrote "Un crimen secundario", "Un veneno saludable" and "Derrotado por un muerto" His works go from comic book stories to short tales, novels and essays. He's the co-author of the movie script "El abrazo partido" (Daniel Burman, 2001), winner of a variety of prizes. He also took part in the creating of "Sol de Noche" script. He has won the Konex 2004 award as one of the five best writers of the decade (1994-2003) in the young adult field. In 2011 he won this award again, as one of the five best movie script writters of the decade (2001-2011). He lives in Buenos Aires city, with his wife Debora and his three kids.

Es autor de novelas, libros de cuentos y ensayos, y escribe regularmente en diarios y revistas de la Argentina y otros países. Ha publicado artículos, ensayos y cuentos en medios de comunicación de casi todo el mundo. Su obra ha sido traducida a veinte idiomas y ha recibido numerosos galardones literarios en todo el mundo, entre ellos el Premio Rómulo Gallegos 1993 y el Premio Pregonero de Honor 2007. También recibió el Doctorado Honoris Causa en la Universidad de Poitiers, Francia, en 2007, y otras importantes distinciones literarias en América y Europa, pero ninguna en Argentina. Tampoco recibió jamás la Beca Guggenheim. En 1996 donó su biblioteca personal de 10.000 volúmenes para la creación de una fundación, con sede en el Chaco, dedicada al fomento del libro y la lectura, y a la docencia e investigación en Pedagogía de la Lectura. Esta fundación ha creado y sostiene diversos programas culturales, educativos y solidarios

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Wu Cheng'en (simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéng'ēn, ca. 1505–1580 or 1500–1582, courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), pen name "Sheyang Hermit," was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, best known for being the probable author of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West, also called Monkey.

Álvaro Yunque, nacido Arístides Gandolfi Herrero (La Plata, 20 de junio de 1889 - Tandil, 8 de enero de 1982) fue un escritor argentino, figura representativa de las letras argentinas a partir de la década del 20, cuando comenzó a colaborar en revistas de la época y publicó sus primeros libros. Cuentista, dramaturgo, historiador, ensayista y preponderantemente poeta, como a él le gustaba autodenominarse, su obra literaria abarca más de cincuenta títulos publicados y otros tantos inéditos. Encabezó, junto con Leónidas Barletta, Elías Castelnuovo, César Tiempo y Roberto Mariani, entre otros, el grupo de los denominados escritores sociales, integrando con ellos el Grupo de Boedo. En 1945 dirigió el semanario El patriota, lo que le valió la cárcel y el exilio durante el gobierno de Edelmiro J. Farrel exiliado en Montevideo durante varios meses. Al asumir Juan Domingo Perón otorgó una amnistía general para los exiliados y presos políticos, regresa Buenos Aires. En 1960 fue designado miembro numerario de la Academia Porteña del Lunfardo. En 1975, obtuvo el premio Aníbal Ponce de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores por su obra Aníbal Ponce o los Deberes de la Inteligencia. En 1977, la dictadura militar prohibió y quemó sus libros. No obstante, en 1979 la SADE le otorgó el Gran Premio de Honor. La censura la sufrió durante la última dictadura: Tenía 87 años muy lúcidos cuando prohibieron su participación en la Feria del Libro de 1977 y en todas las subsiguientes. Decretos firmados por Jorge Rafael Videla y Albano Harguindeguy ordenaron la quema y destrucción de sus libros.