This week our Beyond Borges series turns the spotlight on Ricardo Güiraldes, one of the greatest regional novelists to emerge from Latin America and the creator of an instant classic.

Continuing our Beyond Borges series is Alfonsina Storni, one few women to move in the male dominated arenas of literature and theatre in the early 20th century.

Carrying The Indy’s Beyond Borges series in to the 20th century is an author who held a supreme sway over Argentine letters during his lifetime: Leopoldo Lugones.

The latest in Kate Bowen’s ‘Beyond Borges’ series looks at the 19th century gauchesque poet José Hernández: author of Argentina’s national poem ‘Martin Fierro’.

The Beyond Borges series introduces gauchesque poet Estanislao del Campo, whose playful twist on the genre pushed the gaucho protagonist to the forefront of Argentine writing.

In the latest installment of our ‘Beyond Borges’ series, Kate Bowen looks at Bartolomé Hidalgo, an early 19th century poet known as the ‘Godfather of the Gauchesque’

Argentine poet, playwright and novelist José Mármol is third to feature in Kate Bowen’s ‘Beyond Borges’ series – completing a trio of prominent 19th century romantic writers.

Continuing our ‘Beyond Borges’ series is an author possibly better known for being Argentina’s seventh president, the subject of one of Rodin’s final sculptures, or the face of the $50 note.

Kick-starting The Indy’s ‘Beyond Borges’ series is an author generally accepted as marking the beginning of Argentine literature, and arguably the first writer to play a significant role in its development.

Kate Bowen introduces a new series profiling Argentine writers who have shaped and influenced the course of Argentine and Latin American literature.