Multiculturalism: Fiction by Latin American Authors

Argentina
Jorge Luis Borges - Universal HIstory of Infamy
Ariel Dorfman - Death and the Maiden

Bolivia
Rodrigo Hasbún - Affections: A Novel

Brazil
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Adriana Lisboa - Symphony in White

Chile 
Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits
Marcela Serrano - Ten Women

Cuba
Christina Garcia - Dreaming in Cuban
Renaldo Arenas - Farewell to the Sea

Dominican Republic
Juno Dìaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Ecuador
Juan León Mera - Cumanda

Guyana
Wilson Harris - The Dark Jester

Haiti
Edwidge Danticat - The Farming of Bones

The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded, according to the will of the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel, "to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind" in the field of literature.  The first prize was awarded in 1901 and is awarded annually.

South American, Mexican, and Central American Nobel Laureates for Literature

Gabriel García Márquez
b. 1927 - d. 2014

Gabriel García Márquez, known throughout Latin America as Gabo or Gabito,
is considered to have been one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
His two most popular works are
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).

Mexico
Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate
Valeria Luiselli - The Lost Children Archive
Sofia Segovia - The Murmuring of Bees

Paraguay                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Ingrid Rimland - The Wanderers

Puerto Rico
Eduardo Lalo - Simone
Esmeralda Santiago - América's Dream

Uruguay
Eduardo Galeano - Century of the Wind

Venezuela 
Rómulo Gallegos - Doña Barbara