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Aug 2, 2021 · This list of 12 Hispanic authors who write for young adults includes their brief biographies and recommended books to add to your 2021 reading list! 1. Julia Alvarez – Dominican Republic. Source. Julia Alvarez was born in New York on March 27th in 1950, to parents from Dominican Republic.
- Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges. English Title: “Fictions” Date Published: 1944. Country: Argentina. This classic is my absolute favorite. I remember reading Borges for the first time at the age of 15 and coming back to him my whole life.
- El Túnel, by Ernesto Sábato. English Title: “The Tunnel” Date Published: 1948. Country: Argentina. El Túnel shakes you from the very first sentence with the ending of the book that appears at the beginning
- Cien Años de Soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez. English Title: “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Date Published: 1967. Country: Colombia. Cien Años de Soledad is another classic in Spanish whose first sentence sounds familiar to many readers
- Bestiario, by Julio Cortázar. English Title: “Bestiary: Selectet Stories” Date Published: 1951. Country: Argentina. Julio Cortázar is the master of surprise.
- 'Tentacle' by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas. Dominican author Rita Indiana's latest English-language release, Tentacle, tells the story of the Caribbean in the 2020s and 2030s, following a series of catastrophic ecological phenomena.
- 'Antígona González' by Sara Uribe, translated by John Pluecker. A retelling of Sophocles' Antigone, Antígona González centers on its eponymous heroine, following her fruitless search for the body of her missing brother, Tadeo, who has been killed, she believes, in an act of violence involving a drug cartel.
- 'Like Water for Chocolate' by Laura Esquivel, translated by Carol and Thomas Christensen. In this short novel that blends recipes with fiction, the de la Garza family must come to terms with its old and outdated traditions when its matriarch, Mama Elena, forbids her youngest daughter from marrying, and offers the hand of her eldest child to the girl's suitor instead.
- 'Mouthful of Birds' by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell. From Fever Dream author Samanta Schweblin comes this unsettling collection of short fiction, in which the world is seldom as it appears, and reality bends out of shape in an instant.
Publication date. 1970. " The Gospel according to Mark " (originally in Spanish "El Evangelio según Marcos") is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in the short story collection Doctor Brodie's Report (originally in Spanish El informe de Brodie), first published in 1970.
The 656th Greatest Book of All Time. 12. Nada by Carmen Laforet. "Nada" is a novel that follows the life of a young woman who moves to Barcelona to attend university after the Spanish Civil War. She stays with her eccentric relatives who live in a grand, but decaying mansion.
A few of his books are: Reina Roja, El Emblema del traidor, etc. Other author. This is one that I love: Carlos Ruiz Zafón. He wrote La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind), which is the second most sold novel in Spanish only after Don Quixote. La sombra del viento is the first book of a saga of 4.
Colombian magazine Semana published a list of the best Spanish language novels of the last 25 years. The list, complied by 80 writers, literary critics and journalists named the 100 best novels written in Spanish. This list was originally published in 2007 and was added to this site 3 months ago.
