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  Cervantes Prize. Who is Cervantes Prize? What is Cervantes Prize? Where is Cervantes Prize? Definition of Cervantes ...
Premio Miguel de Cervantes (the Miguel de Cervantes Prize) is awarded annually to honor the whole career of an outstanding writer in Spanish language.
It is regarded as a type of Nobel Prize in Literature in Spanish language.
The candidates are proposed by the Language Academies of the Spanish-speaking countries, and the prize is awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Cervantes_Prize   (109 words)

  
 Dr. Anne Simpson's Author and Literature Links: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616), Spanish writer, considered by many to be the greatest Spanish author, whose novel Don Quixote (Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615) is regarded as one of the masterpieces of world literature.
Returning to Spain at the age of 33, Cervantes, despite his wartime service and misfortunes in Algeria, was unable to obtain employment with a noble family, the usual reward for veterans who had distinguished themselves.
Probably during his time in prison Cervantes conceived the idea for a story about a man who imagines himself a knight-errant (a knight who seeks out adventure) performing the splendid feats described in medieval tales of chivalry.
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 Geometry.Net - Authors: Cervantes Miguel De
Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares, a town near Madrid, into a family of the minor nobility.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedrawas born to a family of modest means in 1547 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
Cervantes was born in Alcala de Henares, a town 20 miles from Madrid, on September 29, 1547.
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 Adolfo Bioy Casares. Who is Adolfo Bioy Casares? What is Adolfo Bioy Casares? Where is Adolfo Bioy Casares? Definition ...
He was a friend of Jorge Luis Borges and wrote many stories with him under the pseudonym of H.
It is the story about a man who, evading justice, escapes to an island which was said to be infected with a mysterious fatal disease.
He won several awards, including the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 1991 in Alcalá de Henares.
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 Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Casa de las Americas published a disk of her readings of her own poems in their series "Palabras de esta America" (Words of this America).
She was present at a conference in honor of her 94th birthday at the Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística in Havana.
Her last public appearance was on April 15 at the Cultural Center of the Spanish Embassy, at an event in honor of the 45th anniversary of Jardín.
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 Adolfo Bioy Casares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He won several awards, including the Gran Premio de Honor of SADE (the Argentine society of writers, 1975), the French Légion d'honneur (1981), the title of Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires (1986), and the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (awarded to him in 1991 in Alcalá de Henares).
Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969, translated into English as Diary of the War of the Pig, ISBN 0070737428)
La aventura de un fotógrafo en La Plata (1985, translated into English as The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata, ISBN 0747507988)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adolfo_Bioy_Casares   (542 words)

  
 Cervantes Prize --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Cervantes Prize is presented to an author whose Castilian-language work as a whole is judged to have most enriched Spanish and Spanish-American culture.
Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote has been translated into all major languages.
Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca wrote brilliant plays in the 16th and 17th centuries, and poet and playwright Federico García Lorca helped create a second Golden Age of Spanish theater in the 1930s.
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 23 April History: This Date
Cervantes was ransomed after five years of captivity and returned to Madrid, where he began writing.
Cervantes nació en Alcalá de Henares en 1547, durante el reinado del emperador Carlos I de España y V de Alemania.
Su padre, infinitamente alejado de los lujos imperiales, era un modestísimo cirujano que hubo de cambiar frecuentemente de lugar de residencia para poder vivir de su entonces muy desprestigiada profesión.
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 French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Literature - What's Been Published - Alphabetically by Title Beginning: A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Augusto Roa Bastos : Premio de literatura en lengua castellana "Miguel de Cervantes", 1989.
Miguel de Dicastillo ; con estudio preliminâar de Aurora Egido.
Gertrudis Gâomez de Avellaneda ; estudio y notas de Lorenzo Cruz-Fuentes.
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 12 Nov History: This Date
Dans la petite cité balnéaire des environs de Gênes, il est convenu que l'Italie annexe Zara, sur la côte dalmate, tandis que Fiume, autre ville de la côte dalmate, devient un état indépendant.
De premiers soulèvements sont constatés chez la tribu des Béni Chougrane, dans les monts de Mascara, en 1914-15.
When they didn't, he had made his point that, though the deeds of kings might appear 'great' in the minds of men, they were as nothing in the face of God's power: "Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings.
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 Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - Antonio Buero Vallejo - Su obra
[«Miguel Hernández por Monsalvo».] Texto en el catálogo de la exposición del pintor Monsalvo en homenaje a Miguel Hernández.
Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1986), Catálogo de la exposición, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 1987, pp.
[«Prólogo a un relato de José María Álvarez Cruz».] Prólogo sin título a un relato en José María Álvarez Cruz, Soneto en prosas escoradas a babor.
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 Novel and Short Story
de Literatura José Fuentes Mares for the novel "Pasos de sangre".
He is the author of "Condores no entierran todos los días", "El bazar de los idiotas", "La boba y el buda" and "Pepe botellas".
Mata Gil won the 1989 Premio Miguel Otero Silva for the novel "Memorias de una antigua primavera".
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 05 Nov History: This Date   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Après cinq campagnes de fouilles infructueuses, l'archéologue britannique et son mécène, lord Carnavon, ont le bonheur de promener leur regard sur la seule sépulture pharaonique qui n'ait pas déjà été pillée.
Des expositions itinérantes ont développé dans le monde la passion du public pour l'Egypte ancienne.
Partisan de l'absolutisme, il veut renforcer son pouvoir en prenant appui sur la religion anglicane, qui fait du roi le chef de l'Eglise nationale.
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 Frases Celebres,Citas, Biografia de Miguel de Cervantes"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mándale estas Frases célebres de Miguel de Cervantes a un amigo por e-mail
Una de las mayores tentaciones del demonio es ponerle a un hombre en el entendimiento que puede componer a imprimir un libro con que gane tanta fama como dineros y tantos dineros como fama
De las miserias suele ser alivio una compañía.
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 16 Nov History: This Date
Although Foat's spouse at the time was a known criminal, and the two were said to hang around with bad company, Foat proclaimed to have "changed her life" since the time of the murders, and the jury could not, without reasonable doubt, convict her.
Il aura eu le temps de permettre l'entrée en guerre de l'Afrique française auprès des alliés anglais et américains.
C'est la fin de l'empire inca qui domina les Andes pendant quelques décennies et développa une civilisation originale, fondée sur l'adoration du soleil et la culture de la pomme de terre.
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 An Archive of Past Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Instituto Nacional de Musicología "Carlos Vega," under the auspices of the Argentine Secretariat of Culture and Communication and under the patronage of the Fundación Konex, Plastar, Polisur, and the Asociación Amigos del Instituto Nacional de Musicología.
He is the founder of the Filarmónica de las Américas and pianist and arranger for the Conjunto Camerata Punta del Este.
Graciela Clara Rasini is currently full-time professor of theory, composition, and piano at the Escuela de Artes y Ciencias Musicales de la Universidad Católica de Argentina, where she received her Master’s in composition and is a regular advisor of the school’s managing board.
lamc.cua.edu /an_archive_of_past_events.cfm   (7480 words)

  
 E. L. Easton - Languages - Spanish Reading   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Lazarillo de Tormes notes / Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola
Lazarillo de Tormes the picaresque novel / Rafael Yáñez
Premio de Literatura en lengua castellana "Miguel de Cervantes" Ministerio de Educación y Cultura
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 Opinión - eluniversal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
La poesía de Hierro alterna la poética tradicional de metros y ritmos con una línea vanguardista, poesía irrealista e informalista con libertad total del verso.
Crea así un mundo autónomo, de vena irrealista, todo fantasía, gracia verbal, juego imaginativo, y de puro divertimento.
Y así lo expresa: 'el hombre que hay en el poeta cantará lo que tiene de común con los demás hombres, lo que los hombres todos cantarían si tuviesen un poeta dentro'; 'quien no vibra con su tiempo, renuncie a crear.
politica.eluniversal.com /1999/01/04/opi_art_OPI2.shtml   (454 words)

  
 madariaga - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Salvador de Madariaga noted that as late as 1673 Milton was "still putting forth authority, and not merely authority but Bible authority, as the...
Professor Isabel de Madariaga remains the empress of Russian historians...ignored the child-monarch.
Salvador de Madariaga became known as a biographer and historian.
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 Aguilar, Alfaguara, Altea, Taurus - Editorial en Argentina
Premio Nacional de Literatura (1994) y Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1999), es uno de los grandes escritores de la lengua española.
Es autor de cuentos, novelas, ensayos, memorias, y columnista muy leído en diarios de España e Hispanoamérica.
Su libro Persona non grata (1973), primera crítica de un intelectual latinoamericano al régimen cubano, ya es un clásico en su género.
www.alfaguara.com.ar /nuevo/AUTOR.asp?idautor=374   (245 words)

  
 Carlos Fuentes Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Fuentes pursued graduate study at the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva in 1950-1951, and also served in the Mexican delegation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, in 1951.
In 1955, he collaborated with Jaime García Terrés in editing the publication Universidad de México; and throughout the 1950s, Fuentes wrote articles on literature, film, and politics which were published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines.
Drafts are in Spanish, English, and French; includes drafts and galleys of commencement address, Harvard University, 6/1983; drafts of acceptance speech for Premio Cervantes, 4/1988; speeches delivered at UNESCO headquarters, 5/1991, and the "Coloquio de Invierno," 2/1992; and speech written for President of Mexico Carlos Salinas de Gortari, [1989].
infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/fuentes   (4608 words)

  
 Nothingandall: On this day in History - Apr 22
1769 - Madame Dubarry torna-se a concubina oficial de Luís XV.
1941 - Ruy Duarte de Carvalho was born in Santarem, Portugal.
1966 - Nascimento de Cida Mendes (Aparecida Silva Mendes), atriz brasileira, em Pará de Minas-MG 1968 - Carlos Costa, was born in Spain.
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 Alvaro Mutis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
His poetry was first published in 1948, his first short stories in 1978, but it was with his first novella featuring Maqroll, La nieve del Almirante (The Snow of the Admiral), in 1986 for which he gained popular and critical acclaim.
He has received many literary awards, including the Prix Medicis (France, 1989), Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras and Reina Sofia (Spain, 1997), Premio Miguel de Cervantes (Spain, 2001), and the Neustadt Prize for Literature (United States, 2002).
Since he was initially a poet, Mutis did not make a career solely from his writing, so he supported himself in a variety of professions.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Alvaro-Mutis.htm   (397 words)

  
 Titles in Stock: Essay, Literary Criticism, Literary History and Theory
de Lit., the 1987 Cervantes and the 1994 Principe de Asturiass.]
De pesares y alegrías: Escritoras latinoamericanas y caribeñas contemporáneas.
Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana 4: De Borges al presente.
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Acerca de Borges: Ensayos de poética, política y literatura comparada.
Eujanian, Alejandro C. Historia de revistas argentinas, 1900-1950: La conquista del público.
On the imperialist threat in Lope de Vega's "La Dragontea", Mistral's identity with indigenous culture, Rubén Darío and freemasonry, the Central American feminist avant-garde.
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By the Mexican author of "De la infancia" (1998).
By the Bolivian author of "Rio fugitivo" (1998) and "Dias de papel" (1997), and "Dochera" winner of the 1997 Premio de Cuento "Juan Rulfo".]
By the award-winning Mexican author of "La noche de las hormigas" (1997).
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 pd5-09   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
His mother Leonor Acevedo de Borges was a very proud woman.
In 1923 Jorge's felt that he was read to bring out his first collection of pomes called Fervor de Benos Aires.
In 1935 he publushed his first short story Historia universal de la infamia it was edited and published as Obras completas.
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 Instituto Cervantes in Manila, activities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
From the director of El espíritu de la colmena, comes an intensely detailed study of a painter in the midst of an artistic creation.
This July, Instituto Cervantes invites you to a sneak preview of some of the titles that will compose this year´s Spanish Filmfest- already gaining the reputation as one the most attractive filmfests for moviegoers in Southeast Asia.
On February 26, 6:30 p.m., Instituto Cervantes formally launches the 10th edition of the Letras y Figuras competition with this year’s theme: Quijote, in commemoration of the 4th centennial of the first edition of the novel Don Quijote de La Mancha.
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 Vargas Llosa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
El escritor Mario Vargas Llosa, nacido en Perú en 1936, es considerado uno los más importantes autores de la lengua española.
Sus novelas, ensayos, obras de teatro y de crítica literaria han obtenido numerosos premios, tanto en su país como en el extranjero.
Entre todos ellos cabe destacar el Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (1996) y el Premio de Miguel de Cervantes (1994) de literatura.
www.cervantes.de /es/03_bibliothek/archivo_digital/vargas_llosa.html   (148 words)

  
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Actas Del VIII Congreso Español De Estudios Clasicos.
Actas Del XXIX Congreso Del Instituto Internacional De Literatura Iberoamericana Tomo II.
Actas Vi Congreso Asociacion Hispanica De Literatura Medieval 1995
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