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The brilliant Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

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Victoria Ocampo

Argentine editor and publisher

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet

The brilliant Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican poet and scholar

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa smiling, shown in a close-up portrait with gray hair, wearing a suit and tie.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author

Colombian President Ivan Duque in a suit and purple tie, smiling, with blurred flags in the background.

Iván Duque

president of Colombia

Isabel Allende, 2008

Isabel Allende

Chilean American writer

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian author

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine author

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

Ernesto Cardenal

Ernesto Cardenal

Nicaraguan poet and priest

Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío

Nicaraguan writer

Paulo Coelho smiling in a close-up portrait, wearing a black jacket, with photographers and camera flashes in the blurred background at the Cannes Film Festival.

Paulo Coelho

Brazilian author

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Roberto Bolaño

Chilean author

Octavio Paz.

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

Portrait of José María Arguedas

José María Arguedas

Peruvian author

Black-and-white portrait of Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, resting his head on one hand and wearing a pinstripe suit and tie.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Argentine author

Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian poet, seated outdoors in a suit with his chin resting on his hand and a cane in his other hand, 1929.

César Vallejo

Peruvian poet

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Rachel de Queiroz

Brazilian novelist

José Martí

José Martí

Cuban patriot

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Nobel Prize Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the Fifty Thousand Colombian Pesos Bill

Latin American Authors