Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.
Read biography ↗Spanish playwright (1832-1916)
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, politician, and one of the leading dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century.
Read biography ↗Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain.
Read biography ↗Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883–1955)
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist.
Read biography ↗Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
Read biography ↗Portuguese novelist (1922–2010)
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer.
Read biography ↗English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)
Joseph Addison was a British writer and politician.
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Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky, anglicized as Joseph, was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
Read biography ↗Polish-British writer (1857–1924)
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
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