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  Kate O'Brien

  Kathleen Mary Louise "Kate" O'Brien, was an Irish novelist and playwright.
  
  After the success of her play, Distinguished Villa in 1926, she took to full-time writing and was awarded the 1931 James Tait Black Prize for her novel Without My Cloak. She is best known for her 1934 novel The Ante-Room, her 1941 novel The Land of Spices and the 1946 novel That Lady. Many of her books dealt with issues of female sexuality — with several exploring gay/lesbian themes — and both Mary Lavelle and The Land of Spices were banned in Ireland. She also wrote travel books, or rather accounts of places and experiences, on both Ireland and Spain, a country she loved, and which features in a number of her novels. She lived much of her later life in England and d

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  Antonio Larreta

  Gualberto José Antonio Rodríguez Larreta Ferreira, una de las más talentosas personalidades del teatro uruguayo, nació en el seno de una familia acomodada y culta que facilita sus inquietudes y desarrollo de su creatividad.
  Se ha destacado, además, como periodista, guionista de televisión y cine, cineasta, director teatral, crítico de cine y de teatro (en El País desde 1948 a 1959; en Marcha desde 1963 a 1966).
  
  En 1961 obtuvo el premio Larra que conceden los críticos teatrales madrileños merced a la puesta en escena de "Porfiar hasta Morir" de Lope de Vega; en 1971 se hizo merecedor del Premio Casa de las Américas por su obra teatral "Juan Palmieri", y en 1980 obtuvo el Premio Planeta por la novela "Volavérunt".
  
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  Francisco González Ledesma

  Francisco González Ledesma has been a lawyer, journalist and author.
  His first award came in 1948 when he won the "Premio Internacional de Novela" (or International Novel Prize") for his novel "Sombras viejas", with jurors such as Somerset Maugham and Walter Starkie.
  The novel suffered the censorship of Franco's regime and the promising future of his author seemed frustrated.
  Costrained by the dictatorship, Ledesma started using the pen-name of Silver Kane to write popular novels for the Spanish publisher Editorial Bruguera.
  Disappointed by the law practice, he studied journalism and started a new career in the editorial office of the newspaper “El correo catalan” and, later, for “La Vanguardia” (TN: one of the most important newspaper of Catal

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  Frank Yerby

  Born in Augusta, Georgia to Rufus Garvin Yerby, an African American, and Wilhelmina Smythe, who was caucasian. He graduated from Haines Normal Institute in Augusta and graduated from Paine College in 1937. Thereafter, Yerby enrolled in Fisk University where he received his Master's degree in 1938. In 1939, Yerby entered the University of Chicago to work toward his doctorate but later left the university. Yerby taught briefly at Florida A&M University and at Southern University in Baton Rouge.
  
  Frank Yerby rose to fame as a writer of popular fiction tinged with a distinctive southern flavor. In 1946 he became the first African-American to publish a best-seller with The Foxes of Harrow. That same year he also became the first African-American t

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  Javier Tomeo

  Javier Tomeo estudió derecho y criminología en la Universidad de Barcelona. En los años cincuenta escribió literatura popular (novelas del oeste, de terror, etc..) bajo el pseudónimo «Frantz Keller» para la Editorial Bruguera.
  En 1963 editó, junto a Juan María Estadella, La brujería y la superstición en Cataluña. Pero no fue hasta unos años después, en el 1967, cuando se publicó su primera novela "seria".
  Su novela 'El Unicornio', aparecida en 1971, le hizo ganar el premio de novela corta Ciudad de Barbastro. En esa década aparecieron algunos de sus títulos más significativos como ahora "El castillo de la carta cifrada".
  
  En la década de los ochenta se confirmó como uno de los mejores y más personales narradores españoles contemporáneos. En la

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