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Aquilino Ribeiro
Aquilino Ribeiro (1885–1963) was a Portuguese novelist whose fiction rooted in the Beira Alta highlands made him a leading prose writer of the 20th century.
Concha Espina
Concha Espina (Concepción Espina y Tagle, 1869–1955) was a Spanish novelist and journalist, the first Spanish woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, losing by one vote in 1926.
Fernando Namora
Fernando Namora, full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora (1919–1989), was a Portuguese physician and writer, a leading neo-realist novelist and one of Portugal's most translated authors.
Ferreira de Castro
Ferreira de Castro (José Maria Ferreira de Castro) was a Portuguese novelist whose Amazon novels Emigrantes and A Selva opened Portuguese fiction to social realism.
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947) was a Portuguese writer of fiction, poetry, and essay, the first Portuguese woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Max Aub
Max Aub (Max Aub Mohrenwitz) was a Spanish writer, born in Paris in 1903, known for the six-novel cycle El laberinto mágico about the Spanish Civil War.
Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (1908–1983) was a Catalan novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright, the most translated Catalan fiction author; her novel La plaça del Diamant appeared in 37 languages.
Pío Baroja
Pío Baroja y Nessi (1872–1956) was a Spanish novelist of the Generation of '98 who wrote almost a hundred novels, including Zalacaín el aventurero and El árbol de la ciencia.
Ramón Pérez de Ayala
Ramón Pérez de Ayala (1880–1962) was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and diplomat, a leading figure of the Generation of 1914 known for Belarmino y Apolonio.
Rosa Chacel
Rosa Chacel (1898–1994) was a Spanish novelist, essayist, diarist, and translator of the Generation of '27 who spent roughly three decades in exile after the Spanish Civil War.
Sofía Casanova
Sofía Casanova was a Galician-born Spanish journalist, novelist, and poet, the first Spanish woman contracted as a war correspondent, reporting from Poland and Russia for ABC.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928) was a Spanish novelist and republican politician from Valencia whose war novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse became an international bestseller.