Piedad
Bonnett was born in Colombia, studied Philosophy and Literature
in the Universidad de los Andes, where she has been a teacher in the
Literature department since 1981. Bonnett has published five
books of poetry: De Círculo y Ceniza, (1989), Nadie en
Casa, (1994), El Hilo de los Días, (1995), Ese Animal
Triste, (1996),Todos los Amantes son Guerreros, (1998),
and Antología Poética, (1998). Piedad Bonnett´s poems,
though deeply personal, reveal the every day life and the
astonishing greatness and beauty of small things. The themes, in
spite of being rooted in the inner self, are universal, because they
touch the feelings and emotions of the reader: love, time,
remembrance, suffering, solitude, art: the different faces of
life. [More]
Gabriela Mistral
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945
"for
her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her
name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin
American world"
Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), pseudonym for Lucila Godoy y
Alcayaga, was born in Vicuña, Chile. The daughter of a dilettante
poet, she began to write poetry as a village schoolteacher after a
passionate romance with a railway employee who committed
suicide. She taught elementary and secondary school for many
years until her poetry made her famous. [More]
Pablo Neruda
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Pablo
Neruda was born in Chile in 1904. Started to write poetry at the age
of sixteen. Born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes, in 1920 adopted the literary
name of Pablo Neruda.
Collaborated in several literary
publications, such as Andamios, Alí Babá, Dínamo, Renovación, and
the newspaper La Nación.
Fulfilled diplomatic missions as
consul, in Burma, Ceylon, Java, Singapur, Argentina, Spain, Mexico
and France. Represented Chile in Madrid from 1934 to 1938, where he
became a personal friend of the poets beloging to the 1927
generation. [More]
Cesar Vallejo
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César
Vallejo was born in Peru in 1892. His childhood in the Andean
region marked his character and the structure of his poetic,
narrative and essay work. Raised in a catholic environment, the
youngest of eleven children, surrounded by conflictive cultural
manifestations, where the oral expression survive the slow
implantation of modernity.
César Vallejo began writing poetry
in 1913. Los heraldos negros, his first book of poems was published
before 1918. [More]
Poetic Voices
Some of the world´s fine and profound
poetry has been written by Latin-American poets, who have
mastered a style and a voice of their own: original, precise
and characteristic.
With time, good literature does not change very much; that
is, the subjects of inspiration today, are those approached in
ancient times by Homer, Safo, Shakespeare, Quevedo or Racine:
Life and Death, Time, Destiny, Love, Loneliness,
Incommunication, War, Nature. Technology changes, but the
human being, his feelings and emotions, his worries and
happiness, are essentially the same through different periods
of history. What changes is the individual way of looking, the
personal way in which each writer treats each theme.
Today, as all good poets know, old themes are dealt with
the language and the perspective of our time, according with
the problems we face nowadays.
Piedad
Bonnett was born in Colombia, studied Philosophy and Literature
in the Universidad de los Andes, where she has been a teacher in the
Literature department since 1981. 
"for
her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her
name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin
American world" 
Pablo
Neruda was born in Chile in 1904. Started to write poetry at the age
of sixteen. Born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes, in 1920 adopted the literary
name of Pablo Neruda.
César
Vallejo was born in Peru in 1892. His childhood in the Andean
region marked his character and the structure of his poetic,
narrative and essay work. Raised in a catholic environment, the
youngest of eleven children, surrounded by conflictive cultural
manifestations, where the oral expression survive the slow
implantation of modernity.