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José J. Veiga
José J. Veiga (1915–1999) was a Brazilian writer from Goiás whose fiction blends magical realism with social criticism, best known for Os cavalinhos de Platiplanto.
José Joaquín de Olmedo
José Joaquín de Olmedo (1780–1847) was an Ecuadorian poet and statesman, first vice president of Ecuador and author of the ode La victoria de Junín.
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, known as El Pensador Mexicano, was a Mexican journalist and novelist who wrote El Periquillo Sarniento, the first Spanish American novel.
José Joaquín Pesado
José Joaquín Pesado (1801–1861) was a Mexican poet, translator, and politician remembered for his religious verse and Las aztecas (1854), which first brought ancient Mexican songs into poetry.
José Lins do Rego
José Lins do Rego (1901–1957) was a Brazilian novelist from Paraíba who wrote the Sugar Cane Cycle about the decline of the Northeast's sugar mills.
José López Portillo y Rojas
José López Portillo y Rojas (1850–1923) was a Mexican writer, jurist, and politician whose novel La parcela (1898) is a foundational work of Mexican rural narrative.
José Luandino Vieira
José Luandino Vieira, born José Vieira Mateus da Graça in Portugal in 1935, is a Portuguese-born Angolan writer, a central figure of modern Angolan literature whose fiction blends Portuguese with the speech of Luanda.
José Manuel Arango
José Manuel Arango Pérez (1937–2002) was a Colombian poet, essayist, and translator from Antioquia who published four slim books of poems and influenced later Colombian poetry.
José María Arguedas
José María Arguedas (1911–1969) was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist who wrote in Spanish and Quechua and is regarded as a leading exponent of indigenismo.
José María de Pereda
José María de Pereda (1833 to 1906) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and politician, a leading figure of nineteenth-century Realism known for the regional novels Sotileza and Peñas arriba.
José María Heredia
José María Heredia (1803–1839) was a Cuban poet and exile, regarded as the initiator of Romanticism in Spanish America, best known for his odes to Niagara and Cholula.
José María Pemán
José María Pemán (1897–1981) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and essayist from Cádiz, a leading official voice of the Franco regime and director of the Real Academia Española.
José María Vigil
José María Vigil (1829–1909) was a Mexican liberal writer, journalist, and historian who directed the Biblioteca Nacional de México and led the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua from 1894.
José Mármol
José Pedro Crisólogo Mármol (1817–1871) was an Argentine poet, novelist, journalist, and politician opposed to the dictator Rosas, whose novel Amalia (1855) is considered the first Argentine novel.
José Martí
José Martí (José Julián Martí Pérez, 1853-1895), Cuban poet, journalist, and independence leader; founder of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano, author of Nuestra América and Versos sencillos, and an initiator of Modernismo with Rubén Darío; died at Dos Ríos in 1895.
José Milla y Vidaurre
José Milla y Vidaurre (1822–1882), who published fiction as Salomé Jil, was a Guatemalan writer, journalist, historian, and diplomat regarded as a founder of the Guatemalan novel.
José Revueltas
José Revueltas (1914–1976) was a Mexican novelist, essayist, and communist militant imprisoned several times, whose fiction gave voice to the marginalized; his major novels include Los muros de agua, El luto humano, and El apando.
José Rizal
José Rizal (1861–1896), Filipino novelist, physician, and nationalist, executed by Spain on December 30, 1896; author of Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo; commemorated as the Philippines' national hero on Rizal Day.
José Rosas Moreno
José Rosas Moreno, full name José Ignacio Rosas Moreno (1838–1883), was a Mexican poet and fabulist from Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, remembered as the leading fabulist of nineteenth-century Mexico.
José Santos Chocano
José Santos Chocano, called "El Cantor de América," was a Peruvian poet and diplomat (1875–1934) and a leading voice of Latin American modernismo, known for his 1906 collection Alma América.
José Saramago
José Saramago (1922–2010), Portuguese novelist and 1998 Nobel laureate in literature, author of Blindness, Memorial do Convento, and The Gospel according to Jesus Christ; exiled to Lanzarote in 1993 after state censorship.
José Tomás de Cuéllar
José Tomás de Cuéllar (1830–1894) was a Mexican novelist, journalist, painter, and diplomat who wrote as Facundo; his ten-novel series La linterna mágica depicts Mexico City's middle class.
José Victorino Lastarria
José Victorino Lastarria (1817–1888) was a Chilean novelist, essayist, and liberal politician who led the Generation of 1842, founded the Sociedad Literaria, and championed a national Chilean literature.
José Zorrilla
José Zorrilla y Moral (1817, Valladolid–1893, Madrid) was a Spanish poet and playwright of Romanticism, best known for Don Juan Tenorio, still performed yearly around All Saints' Day.
Josef Dobrovský
Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829) was a Czech philologist, historian, and linguist who dominated the first period of the Czech National Revival and is regarded as a founder of Slavic studies.
Josef Jungmann
Josef Jungmann (1773–1847) was a Czech linguist, lexicographer, and translator who led the Czech National Revival; his five-volume Czech-German Dictionary (1834–1839) laid the foundations of modern literary Czech.
Josef Škvorecký
Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012), Czech-Canadian novelist, translator, and co-founder of Toronto exile press '68 Publishers; author of The Cowards, The Miracle Game, and The Engineer of Human Souls.
Josef Svatopluk Machar
Josef Svatopluk Machar (1864–1942) was a Czech poet, publicist, and politician, the leading representative of Czech poetic realism, co-author of the 1895 Česká moderna manifesto, and later inspector general of the Czechoslovak army.
Josefina Plá
Josefina Plá was a Spanish-born poet, playwright, ceramicist, and historian who moved to Paraguay in the 1920s, led the Generación del 40, and pioneered feminist writing there.
Josep Carner
Josep Carner (1884–1970) was a Catalan poet, journalist, translator, and diplomat called the "Prince of Catalan Poets," the central poetic figure of the Noucentisme movement.