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La muñeca menor (1972), also known as, The Youngest Doll is a short story written by Rosario Ferré. The story is told in third person narrative, and is part of a larger group of published work in her book of short stories, "Papeles de Pandora", this is one of the most famous of those short stories. Ferré managed to produce this work in both ...
Ratoncito Pérez. Cover of the 1911 first edition of the Ratón Pérez tale by Luis Coloma, illustrated by Mariano Pedrero [ es] El Ratoncito Pérez or Ratón Pérez ( lit. transl. Perez the Little Mouse or Perez Mouse) is a fantasy figure of early childhood in Spanish and Hispanic American cultures. The folklore states that when children lose ...
It is a collection of short stories featuring indigenous folklore of the island of Negros, such as the tamao, the tic-tic, the asuang, the camá-camá, the bagát and the cafre. First published in Spain in 1943, the book then won first prize for literature in a contest held by the Latin Union Writers' Association in Paris in 1951.
Ficciones (in English: "Fictions") is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, originally written and published in Spanish between 1941 and 1956. Thirteen stories from Ficciones were first published by New Directions in the English-language anthology Labyrinths (1962). In the same year, Grove Press published ...
A la juventud filipina. A la juventud filipina (English Translation: To The Philippine Youth) is a poem written in Spanish by Filipino writer and patriot José Rizal, first presented in 1879 in Manila, while he was studying at the University of Santo Tomas . " A la juventud filipina " was written by Rizal when he was only eighteen years old, [1 ...
20956761. El llano en llamas (translated into English as The Burning Plain and Other Stories, [1] The Plain in Flames, [2] and El Llano in flames [3]) is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo. The stories were written over several years for different literary magazines, starting in 1945 with They Gave Us ...
Javier Marías Franco (20 September 1951 – 11 September 2022) [1] was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. [2] Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White ( Corazón tan blanco, 1992) and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me ( Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, 1994). [3] In addition to his novels, he also published ...
Tales of Count Lucanor. Tales of Count Lucanor ( Old Spanish: Libro de los enxiemplos del Conde Lucanor et de Patronio) is a collection of parables written in 1335 by Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena. It is one of the earliest works of prose in Castilian Spanish . The book is divided into five parts.