Literature

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=Authors=

Jorge Luis Borges
// -// Audio comments, textual excerpts in Spanish //-// Links to stories, poetry, and essays by Borges in Spanish

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
[|Cervantes Text Search Engine]

- Octavio Ocampo's //Visions of Quixote// mashup

Sandra Cisneros
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Julio Cortázar
- Links to a brief bio and works by Cortázar

Elena Garro
[|La Factura] - Full text online

Un día de estos
[|Full text in Spanish]

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José Hernández
[|El Gaucho Martín Fierro]

Octavio Paz
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=Resources=

- Links to biographical information, as well as information about other famous literary works, including crónicas, essays, novels, plays, poetry, short stories in Spanish - Links to brief biographies, interviews, short stories, texts, etc., from famous Chilean writers

- Beautiful site containing readings, interviews, and book trailers in Spanish for a number of famous Spanish-speaking authors (Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Elena Poniatowska, Juan Rulfo, etc.) as well as other authors like Ray Bradbury.

- Links to several texts on different topics (including El Cid), followed by interactive comprehension quizzes (See also [|poesías interactivas])

- This fantastic site (Currículum en línea) from Chile contains literary texts in Spanish related to language arts, mathematics, natural sciences, and visual arts (including some multimedia texts). Once you select the category, the texts are organized by grade level (for Chile).



- Select Spanish as the language to access hundreds of culturally authentic stories, poems, and other texts from a variety of Spanish-speaking authors and genres.

- Links to essays and stories narrated for radio (some are very imaginative)

- Links to audio texts, read/performed by native speakers, and searchable by language, country, topic, and type of text (commentaries, interviews, legends, news, news magazines, radio novels, radio plays, podcasts, poetry, reports, short stories, songs, etc.)

**Videos**

[|Detrás de las letras - Sonia Manzano]

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See also: Children's Literature, Nursery Rhymes, Poetry