Jorge Luis Borges, a blind librarian who became the most influential short-story writer ever to emerge from Latin America, was born in Buenos Aires. Prosperous but not rich, his family was prominent in Latin American history and included several famous military heroes. Borge’s Protestant father and Catholic mother reflected Argentina’s …
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27 March
A Brief Look at a Great Writer’s Life: Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014)
The Nobel Prize Award in Literature – 1982 GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Author, Journalist (1927–2014) Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez, the most eminent Latin American writer, was born in Aracataca, a small town near the Caribbean coast of Colombia. One of sixteen children of an impoverished telegraph operator, the young writer was left to be …
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22 March
How I Found Out Writing Was My Calling, by Bestselling Fitness and Personal Development Author, Derek Doepker.
By: Derek Doepker A few years ago, if you would have told me I’d be a writer, I would have called you crazy. Never would I imagine writing books, much less publishing bestselling books, would be my future calling. But today, I can’t imagine anything else. In 2011, I arrived in …
