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General Hispanic literary sites

All the latest on the AP literature exam including the 2008 exam

2009-2011 Course Descriptions for AP Spanish language and literature

Free, downloadable 2009 practice exams

Argentina's Literatura Web gathers Hispanic writers of every genre

CiberLetras has Hispanic Literature, technology and recent essays

El Cid - a history and a biography

LIBRO has online texts of Spanish lit 500 -1500 AD

To find/buy or download free most any book in Spanish, try Libros en la Red

La Biblioteca Virtual de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil from the Cervantes Virtual Library

Cuentos cortos en español

Short story collection compiled by Dr. A. L. Carabello

Spain's Golden Age, suggested readings

Texts of great medieval literature & theatre from PARNASEO

Una gran colección de Poesía

Use drop-down bars to find almost any poem in Spanish

LANIC's comprehensive guide to Latin American literature

Los lectores quijotescos according to Espéculo

Get to know the top 6 Latin-American authors

A comprehensive look at great Argentine literature

A Dictionary of Mexican Writers

Try learning Spanish online!! Optimnem is where and why.

Literary sites by author

From Alberti, Borges, Córtazar to Llosa, Márquez, Neruda, and Saramago

Zamora's Leopoldo Alas, aka "Clarín" - sitio completo

Argentina's"Almafuerte", the poet-teacher Pedro Bonifacio Palacios

Enjoy the short stories of Argentina's Roberto Arlt

Una biografía de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer de Sevilla y sus rimas

º Project Gutenberg lets you read online the Legends, Tales and Poems of Gustavo Bécquer

"Father of Spanish poetry" Gonzalo de Berceo and his poems

Adolfo Bioy Casares of Argentina

Internet Aleph brings together all possible Borges sites and insights

º  All Borges, all the time
º  A page of Jorge Luis Borges links
º  Hear Borges himself read his works! Links, bio, photos and more
º  A comprehensive article on Borges from Clarín Digital, January, '99
º  Borges speaks out on Macedonio Fernández, no?

Here's a good Cervantes home site
º The Cervantes Project dedicated to his life and works
º La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

º Everything Cervantes from the University of Alcalá
º Of course there's a Quijote.com, complete with free Quijosaver!

De la Argentina, el único Julio Florencio Cortázar

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, aka Nicaragua's revolutionary poet Rubén Darío.

Prolific, award-winning Argentine Marco Denevi

Desde España, el poeta José de Espronceda by Jose Hernandez

Read online El Gaucho Martín Fierro, by José Hernández

Award-winning Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes

Verde. Te quiero verde.

Doña Bárbara (free file sharing) and a bio of Rómulo Gallegos

The poetry of Federico García Lorca for you to enjoy.
º Bio & selected bibliography of the incomparable Garcia Lorca

Links from the Gabriel García Márquez Nobel Prize site
º García Márquez Nobel laureate bibliography
º Complete García Márquez books for sale at Amazon

Cuba's Nicolás Guillén, bio and poems

A tribute to José María de Heredia of Cuba

Proyecto de red sobre vida y obra de Mariano José de Larra

Venezuela Analítica examines Lazarillo de Tormes

º Lazarillo analyzedby UPS Siglo de Oro professor Velez-Quinones
º Read the seven chapters of Lazarillo on line, thanks to 4olin.com

Lee 4 cuentos del puertorriqueño Luis López Nieves

An excellent anthology of Antonio Machado's life

Don Juan Manuel, el hombre y sus obras

Official site dedicated to José Martí

Obras, críticas, y estudios de Carmen Martín Gaite

2010 Winner of the Premio Cervantes, Ana María Matute, presented by Club Cultura

º Read here the works of Matute

Amé, fui amado, el sol acarició mi faz.
Vida, nada me debes! Vida, estamos en paz!

Pablo Neruda, Chile's Nobel laureate in literature
º Edward Hirsch of the WA Post: 100 Years of Neruda, 7/11/04

A tribute to Spain's Amado Nervo

Uruguay's Juan Carlos Onetti, 1909-1994, author of 15 major novels.

Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz of Mexico

Bio & bibliography of Argentina's Manuel Puig, who wrote "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and much more

A window to links for Francisco de Quevedo

Here's Argentina's Quino, creator of Mafalda

Nine terrific short stories by Horacio Quiroga, the Poe of Uruguay

Mexico's writer-photographer Juan Rulfo

The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project

Argentina's Osvaldo Soriano of "Funny, Dirty Little War" - vida y obras

Bios of Argentina's poetess Alfonsina Storni from Escritoras.com and Cervantes Virtual

El Gran Burlador, Tirso de Molina is studied by fellow authors

A selection of the poetry of Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo

º  Unamuno - a bio and two translated poems from Poets.org
º  Analítica presents three of Unamuno's works
º  A look at el modernismo religioso de Miguel de Unamuno

Bibliography for Mario Vargas Llosa

º Have you visited VargasLlosa.org?
º Excellent Vargas Llosa bio from Mundo Latino

Sonnets & links Garcilaso de la Vega

Argentina's massacred master writer Rodolfo Walsh

º A timeline for the controversial Walsh

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