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Jorge de Lima
Jorge de Lima, full name Jorge Mateus de Lima, was a Brazilian poet and novelist from Alagoas (1893–1953), known for the epic poem Invenção de Orfeu.
Jorge Enrique Adoum
Jorge Enrique Adoum (1926–2009) was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, and playwright known for the poetry collection Ecuador amargo and the novel Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda.
Jorge Gaitán Durán
Jorge Gaitán Durán (1924–1962) was a Colombian poet and editor known for founding and directing the cultural journal Mito and for poetry centered on eroticism and death.
Jorge Guillén
Jorge Guillén (1893–1984) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, alongside Lorca and Salinas, whose collected work, gathered as Aire nuestro, is organized in five series.
Jorge Icaza
Jorge Icaza Coronel (1906–1978) was an Ecuadorian novelist and playwright whose Huasipungo (1934), attacking the exploitation of Indigenous people by landowners, became Ecuador's most recognized novel.
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine poet, story writer, essayist, and translator. Author of Ficciones, El Aleph, and El libro de arena; director of the Biblioteca Nacional 1955–1973; Cervantes Prize 1979; died in Geneva.
Jorge Manrique
Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) was a Castilian poet and soldier, author of the Coplas por la muerte de su padre, among the most famous Spanish poems.
José Agustín
José Agustín, full name José Agustín Ramírez Gómez, was a Mexican novelist and counterculture chronicler whose debut novel La tumba (1964) helped found the literary movement La Onda.
José Ángel Valente
José Ángel Valente (1929–2000) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and translator of the Generation of the 50 who evolved from social poetry toward an introspective writing of silence and mysticism.
José Antonio Ramos Sucre
José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890, Cumaná – 1930, Geneva) was a Venezuelan prose poem writer, largely ignored in life, now seen as the country's finest twentieth-century poet.
José Asunción Silva
José Asunción Silva (1865–1896) was a Colombian poet and prose writer, a pioneer of modernismo whose musical, pessimistic Nocturnos influenced Rubén Darío and Spanish American literature.
José Basílio da Gama
José Basílio da Gama (1740 or 1741–1795) was a Luso-Brazilian Arcadismo poet, best known for the epic O Uraguai of 1769 about the campaign against the Guaraní Jesuit missions.
José Bergamín
José Bergamín (1895–1983) was a Spanish essayist, playwright, and editor of the Generation of '27, known for aphoristic prose and long exile after the Spanish Civil War.
José Cadalso
José Cadalso (1741–1782) was a Spanish writer and army officer who died as a colonel at the siege of Gibraltar, known for Cartas marruecas and Noches lúgubres.
José Cardoso Pires
José Augusto Neves Cardoso Pires (1925–1998) was a Portuguese writer of novels, stories, and plays, known for O Delfim and Balada da Praia dos Cães and his dry, adjective-free prose.
José Coronel Urtecho
José Coronel Urtecho (1906–1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, and diplomat born in Granada who founded the Vanguardia movement and introduced North American poetry into Central American literature.
José Craveirinha
José Craveirinha, full name José João Craveirinha (1922 to 2003), was a Mozambican poet regarded as his country's greatest; imprisoned from 1964 to 1969 for anti-colonial activity, he won the Camões Prize in 1991.
José de Diego
José de Diego y Martínez (1866–1918) was a Puerto Rican poet, lawyer, and orator known as the Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and Speaker of the legislature from 1907.
José de Espronceda
José de Espronceda (José de Espronceda y Delgado, 1808–1842) was a Spanish Romantic poet, playwright, and liberal politician, often called the Spanish Byron, best known for El estudiante de Salamanca and Canción del pirata.
José de la Cuadra
José de la Cuadra was an Ecuadorian short-story writer, novelist, and essayist of the Grupo de Guayaquil, known for Los Sangurimas and his writing on the coastal montuvio peasant.
José de Santa Rita Durão
José de Santa Rita Durão, born José Luís de Morais, was a Brazilian Augustinian friar and poet who wrote the epic poem Caramuru, a founding work of Brazilian literature.
José do Patrocínio
José do Patrocínio (1853–1905) was a Brazilian journalist and orator known as the Tiger of Abolition, and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
José Donoso
José Donoso (José Donoso Yáñez, 1924–1996) was a Chilean novelist of the Latin American Boom, known for The Obscene Bird of Night (1970) and the essay Historia personal del "boom".
José Echegaray
José Echegaray (1832–1916) was a Spanish engineer, mathematician, finance minister, and playwright who wrote 67 plays and won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature, shared with Frédéric Mistral.
José Eduardo Agualusa
José Eduardo Agualusa is an Angolan journalist and novelist born in 1960, whose novel A General Theory of Oblivion won the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award.
José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco (1939–2014) was a Mexican poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexican literature.
José Eustasio Rivera
José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928) was a Colombian lawyer, poet, and novelist, author of La vorágine (1924), a landmark of Spanish American regionalism denouncing the rubber boom's abuses of indigenous peoples.
José Fernando Ramírez
José Fernando Ramírez, often called Fernando Ramírez, was a Mexican lawyer, politician, and historian who held ministerial office and built a famed library of Mexican historical works.
José Gorostiza
José Gorostiza (1901–1973) was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat of the Contemporáneos group, best known for the philosophical long poem Muerte sin fin (1939).
José Hierro
José Hierro, full name José Hierro del Real, was a Spanish poet, art critic, and member of the Real Academia Española who won the 1998 Miguel de Cervantes Prize.