Talk:Latin American writers
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I've added links to the writer categories. Now someone should replace these links by the names from the categories. I also think the list should contain not just names but also year of birth and death, and maybe something about the style (poet, novelist, ...). Maybe important works could be mentioned. This would make the list more valuable. Piet 10:41, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merging from Latin America#Literature
I see little value in having a list of major writers in the main Latin America article, which is largely a duplicate of the list in this article. I note that Latin America#Painting links to the article Latin American painters but does not attempt to list them. I propose that the list of writers in Latin America be deleted, with any writer on the list not already in this article added here, and a link directly to this article be added to Latin America#Literature.-gadfium 18:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
I disagree with merging. It is not the whole list. It's more like a mini-version of the Latin American writers article. Also it is convient to be able to glance over it on the Latin America article. I wouldn't mind if you shortened the list on the Latin America article though. I think that is reasonable. 72.166.213.68 23:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
- How should I shorten the list on the Latin America article? Should I restrict it only to those authors who have won a Nobel Prize for Literature (which would be a short list, but easy to verify), should certain other prizes also qualify writers, or should I try somehow to determine the most prominent writer from each country, and remove the others? There are bound to be people who will be upset when some writers are included and not others.-gadfium 02:44, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
