Flashcards: Argentine writers

Alberto Granado Jiménez (August 8, 1922 – March 5, 2011) was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist.

César Aira (Argentine Spanish: [ˈse.saɾ ˈai.ɾa]; born 23 February 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine writer and translator, and an exponent of Argentine contemporary literature.

Betina González (born in 1972) is an award-winning Argentine writer.

Francisco "Paco" Urondo (January 10, 1930 in Santa Fe – June 17, 1976 in Mendoza) was an Argentine writer and member of the Montoneros guerrilla organization.

Martín Kohan (born 1967) is an Argentine academic, essayist and novelist.

(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Pérez and the second or maternal family name is Esquivel.) Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born November 26, 1931) is an Argentine human rights activist, community organizer, pacifist, art painter, writer and sculptor.

Ana María Shua (born in Buenos Aires, April 22, 1951) is an Argentine writer who has published over eighty books in numerous genres including: novels, short stories, micro fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays.

Gonzalo Garcés (16 August 1974) is an Argentine editor and writer known for his writing on masculinity, and for his criticisms of feminism.

Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos, also known by the mononym Silo (6 January 1938 – 16 September 2010), was an Argentine writer and founder of the Humanist Movement.

Eduardo Berti (1964) is an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires.

Atahualpa Yupanqui (Spanish pronunciation: [ataˈwalpa ʝuˈpaŋki]; 31 January 1908 – 23 May 1992) (in Quechua, He who comes from faraway lands to say something) was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer.

Miguel Cané (January 27, 1851 – September 5, 1905) was an Argentine writer, lawyer, academic, journalist, and politician.

Rodolfo Jorge Walsh (January 9, 1927 – March 25, 1977) was an Argentine writer of Irish descent, considered the founder of investigative journalism.

Marcelo Figueras (born 1962, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer and a screenwriter.

César Tiempo, born Israel Zeitlin (March 3, 1906 in Dnipropetrovsk (Yekaterinoslav), Ukraine,-October 24, 1980) was a Russian-born screenwriter of Argentine cinema.

Germán Edelmiro Mayer (28 May 1834 – 4 January 1897) was an Argentine soldier, writer and statesman who fought in the Argentine Civil Wars, the American Civil War and against the French intervention in Mexico.

Jorge Luis Farjat (born 17 September 1950).

Electra Mirta Arlt (25 January 1923 - 12 November 2014) was an Argentine writer, translator, professor and researcher specializing in theater.