Spanish biography

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  • A level spanish books

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    , Clarice’s biography now has a Spanish edition. IMS Clarice Lispector, 2017. Disponível em: https://site.claricelispector.ims.com.br/en/2017/12/11/biografia-de-clarice-ganha-edicao-em-espanhol/. Acesso em: 20 February 2025.

    Written by Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector’s biography Why This World (Oxford University Press, 2009) continues to circulate around the world. Also published in Brazil by Cosac Naify in 2009, and translated by José Geraldo Couto, a new edition of the work was released this year, this time by Companhia das Letras. Titled Clarice, the reedited biography includes new photos, rare images, letters, and manuscripts discovered bygd Moser himself.   

    The book has now arrived in Spanish-speaking countries. The Madrid publisher Siruela released Por qué este mundo. Una biografía de Clarice Lispector (trans. Cristina Sánchez-Andrade) in September in Europe and began to distribute it in Latin America this month. The new releases will give Spanish-speaking readers

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    This Spanish Reading Bundle includes ALL 15 of my best selling Spanish language biographies of famous Hispanic people at 50% off!

    Each reading includes a glossary of new vocabulary, a reading comprehension page and an answer key. The people featured here are modern and historic and from a wide range of countries and backgrounds.

    Bundle includes:

    1. Eva Perón - Argentine First Lady
    2. Rigoberta Menchú - Guatemalan activist
    3. Frida Kahlo - Mexican artist
    4. Reina Isabel I - Spanish queen
    5. Shakira - Colombian singer
    6. Isabel Allende - Chilean writer
    7. Fidel Castro - Cuban leader
    8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Colombian writer
    9. Pablo Picasso - Spanish Artist
    10. Jose Martí - Cuban Poet
    11. Diego Rivera - Mexican artist
    12. Celia Cruz - Cuban singer
    13. Federico Garcia Lorca - Spanish Poet
    14. Salvador Dalí - Spanish artist
    15. Pablo Neruda - Chilean Poet

    These readings can be used on their own for a cultural component or as an addition to your individual units: art, history, literature etc.

    Level: Mostly in past

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    Exiled lover

    Biography

    Lope de Vega, one of the most important writers in the history of Spanish literature, was a rogue and a womanizer, a loving father and a devout priest, an inquisitor and a poet. Applauded and admired in his time –in which they called him the Fénix de los Ingenios (Phoenix of Wits)— he wrote more than a thousand works, lived to the age of 73, and took part in a memorable quarrel with Miguel de Cervantes, who is, nevertheless, responsible for one of Lope's best known nicknames today, Monstruo de la Naturaleza (Freak of Nature).

    Son of Francisca Fernández Flórez and Félix de Vega Carpio, a couple from the Cantabrian mountains, Lope Félix de Vega Carpio was born on November 25 (some believe it was December 2), 1562. He came into the world shortly after Cervantes, Góngora, Mateo Alemán and Vicente Espinel. And with them one of the greatest literary groups of all times was born.

    Brother to Francisco, Juliana, Luisa and Juan (according to the Ar