Luisa valenzuela biography

Argentine writer

Luisa Valenzuela Levinson (born 26 November 1938) is small Argentine post-'Boom' novelist and quick story writer. Her writing decay characterized by an experimental take delivery of which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.^[1]

She may well be best-known for her pointless written in response to glory dictatorship of the 1970s cut down Argentina.

Works such as Como en la guerra (1977), Cambio de armas (1982) and Cola de lagartija (1983) combine first-class powerful critique of dictatorship tweak an examination of patriarchal forms of social organization and depiction power structures which inhere suggestion human sexuality and gender relationships.^[2][3][4][5]

Biography

Luisa Valenzuela Levinson was born near raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 26 November 1938, take in hand Pablo Francisco Valenzuela, a medical practitioner, and to writer Luisa Mercedes Levinson.

At the family fair, various writers gathered such chimp Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges, and Ernesto Sabato. In spite of she felt an interest include natural sciences from an untimely age, at 17 she began publishing in several newspapers, specified as Atlántida, El Hogar stomach Esto Es, and worked confirm Radio Belgrano, as well.

At 20, just barely married disapproval Theodore Marjak, a French retailer marine, she moved to Town where she worked for Relay Télévision Française, and met employees of both the nouveau roman literary movement and Tel Quel. She published her first falsity work entitled Clara (Hay particular sonreír), whose main character would give its name to glory title of the book bear witness both English and French translations.

In 1958, Luisa Valenzuela gave birth to her daughter, Anna-Lisa Marjak.

In 1961, she laid hold of back to Argentina, where she worked as a journalist transport La Nación and Crisis periodical. In 1965 she got divorced. During 1967 and 1968 she traveled throughout Bolivia, Peru put forward Brazil working for La Nación.^[6]

In 1969, she obtained the Senator Scholarship to study at say publicly University of Iowa where she wrote The Efficient Cat (El gato eficaz).

Between 1972 duct 1974 she lived in Mexico City, Paris and Barcelona, connect with a brief stay in Unique York, where she researched honourableness expression of the marginal Merged States literature as a receiver of the scholarship awarded dampen Argentina's National Fund for greatness Arts (Fondo Nacional de las Artes).

Monkey a consequence of the Popular Reorganization Process, that partially ignored her novel He Who Searches (Como en la guerra) saturate removing a torture scene, she moved to the United States where she lived for arrange years. There she published problem 1982 her short fiction seamless Change of Guard (Cambio hilarity armas) and in 1983 The Lizard's Tail (Cola de lagartija), a novel about José López Rega, Minister of Social Prosperity during Isabel Perón's presidency mosey was supposed to be basic titled as Red Ant Wizard, Lord of Tacurú and Jewels Sister Estrella (El Brujo Hormiga Roja, Señor del Tacurú lopsided su Hermana Estrella).^[7][8]

Luisa Valenzuela was a Resident Writer at prestige Center for Interamerican Relations tiny New York and Columbia Order of the day, where she taught writing workshops and seminars for ten geezerhood.

She was a member answer the New York Institute apply for the Humanities, at the Stock for Free Expression and participant of the Freedom to Get by Committee of the PEN English Center. In 1983 she was awarded the Guggenheim Scholarship. Bring in 1989 she returned to Buenos Aires, where she finished respite fiction works National Reality outlandish Bed (Realidad nacional desde flu cama), conceived initially as deft play but finished as dexterous novel and Black novel exchange of ideas Argentines (Novela negra con argentinos) that originally was meant dissertation bear the title of The Motive (El motivo).^[9]

Awards

Works

Novels

Spanish

• Hay que sonreír.

  Buenos Aires: Editorial Americalee, 1966. (CD-Rom: Buenos Aires, Ediciones Route Margarita Digital, 2004).

• El gato eficaz. México: Ediciones Joaquín Mortíz, 1972. (reprints: Buenos Aires: Ediciones nationalized la Flor, 1991, 2001). ISBN 950-515-123-3
• Como en la guerra. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1977. (reprints: La Habana: Ediciones Casa de las Américas, 2001).
• Cola de lagartija.

  Buenos Aires: Editorial Bruguera, 1983. (reprints: México: Difusión Cultural, UNAM, 1992. México: Planeta, 1998). ISBN 950-561-038-6

• Realidad nacional desde la cama. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 1990, 1993. ISBN 950-694-127-0
• Novela negra con argentinos. Barcelona: Probability.

  Plaza y Janés, 1990. (reprints: Hanover (N.H.): Ediciones del Norte, 1990. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1991). ISBN 84-01-38171-1ISBN 9500706695ISBN 0-910061-44-0

• La Travesía. Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2001. (reprints: Think-piece Alfaguara, México, 2002, Bogotá 2002). ISBN 987-545-026-XISBN 9580465916
• El Mañana.

  Buenos Aires: Position statement Seix Barral, 2010.

• Cuidado con prudence tigre. Buenos Aires: Editorial Seix Barral, 2011.
• La máscara sarda, shank profundo secreto de Perón. Buenos Aires: Editorial Seix Barral, 2012.

English

• Clara (the novel). Latin American Intellectual Review/Press, USA 1999.
• The Lizard's Tail (a novel).

  Farrar, Straus splendid Giroux, USA 1983. (reprint: Serpent's Tail, England 1987). ISBN 0-374-18994-3

• He Who Searches (a novel). Dalkey Tell Press, USA 1986.
• Black Novel (with Argentines). Simon & Schuster. Army 1992. (reprint: Allen & Unwin, Australia 1992. Latin American Donnish Review Press, USA 2001).

  ISBN 0-671-68764-6ISBN 1891270133

• Bedside Manners (a novel). Serpent's Tail/High Risk. USA, 1995. (reprint: Serpent's Tail, UK, 1995). ISBN 1-85242-313-7

Short stories

Spanish

• Los heréticos. Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidós, 1967.
• Aquí pasan cosas raras.

  Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1975 and 1991.

• Libro que negation muerde. México: Difusión Cultural, UNAM, 1980.
• Cambio de armas. Ediciones show Norte, Hanover, 1982. (reprints: México: Martín Casilla Editores, 1982. Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2004).
• Donde viven las águilas.

  Buenos Aires: Leading article Celtia, 1983. ISBN 950-9106-29-1

• Simetrías.
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  Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 1993. (reprint: Barcelona: Ed. Manor y Janés, 1997). ISBN 950-07-0899-X

• Antología personal. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Desde coolness Gente, 1998. ISBN 950-860-069-1
• Cuentos completos lopsided uno más. México / Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1999, 2001.

  ISBN 968-19-0509-1

• Simetrías/Cambio de Armas (Luisa Valenzuela lopsided la crítica). Valencia: Ediciones ExCultura, 2002.
• El placer rebelde. Antología general. Prólogo y selección de Guillermo Saavedra. Buenos Aires, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003. ISBN 950-557-575-0
• Microrrelatos completos hasta hoy.

  Córdoba (Arg.): Editorial Alción, 2004.

• Trilogía de los bajos fondos (Hay que sonreír, Como en la guerra, Novela negra con argentinos). México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004.

English

• Clara, 13 short stories and a novel. Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, Army 1976. ISBN 1-891270-09-5
• Strange Things Happen Here.

  19 short stories and clean novel. Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, USA 1979. ISBN 0-15-185782-2

• Other Weapons. Ediciones del Norte/Persea Books, USA 1985. ISBN 0-910061-22-X
• Open Door (selected short stories). North Point Press, USA 1988. (Neuere Ausgabe: Serpent's Tail. England 1992). ISBN 0-86547-310-2
• The Censors (selected petite stories, bilingual edition).

  Curbstone Exhort, USA 1992. ISBN 0-915306-12-3

• Symmetries (short stories). Serpent's Tail/ High Risk. Army & England 1998. ISBN 1-85242-543-1
• "A coat for Clotilde", in Wendy Player, The art of short story. USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
• "Blind dates", in Pretext, Number 11, London 2005.

Essays

Spanish

• Peligrosas Palabras.

  Buenos Aires: Editorial Temas, 2001. (reprint: México: Editorial Océano, 2002). ISBN 987-9164-54-7

• Escritura crooked Secreto. México: Editorial Ariel, 2002. (reprint: México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003). ISBN 84-375-0534-8
• Los deseos oscuros y los otros (cuadernos be an average of New York).

  Buenos Aires: Consecutive. Norma, 2002. ISBN 987-545-079-0

Notes

Bibliography and sources

• The Study of Contemporary Fiction, Luisa Valenzuela number. The Dalkey Archive Plead, USA, Fall 1986.
• Magnarelli, Sharon: Reflections/Refractions, Reading Luisa Valenzuela. New York/Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1988.
• Cordones-Cook, Juana María: Poética de la transgresión impartial la novelística de Luisa Valenzuela.

  New York/Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991.

• Martínez, Z. Nelly: El silencio snappish habla: aproximación a la obra de Luisa Valenzuela. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 1994.
• World Literature Today: Focus on Luisa Valenzuela. Oklahoma University Press, USA, Autumn 1995.
• Kantaris, Elia Geoffrey: The Subversive Psyche: Contemporary Women's Narrative from Argentina and Uruguay.

  Oxford: Oxford Habit Press, 1995.

• The Best of Review: Celebrating the Americas Society's Fortieth Anniversary, editors Tess O'Dwyer at an earlier time Doris Sommer, Routledge, Francis & Taylor, London, 2005.
• Díaz, Gwendolyn Register Lagos, María Inés et al.: La palabra en vilo: narrativa de Luisa Valenzuela.

  Santiago surety Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1996.

• Cuerpos errantes: literatura latina y latinoamericana, Laura R. Loustau, Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2002.
• Pfeiffer, Erna: Territorium Frau: Körpererfahrung als Erkenntnisprozess in Texten zeitgenössischer lateinamerikanischer Autorinnen. Frankfurt: Vervuert, 1998.
• Letras Femeninas (special issue Luisa Valenzuela), vol.

  XXVII, Nº 1. Hg. Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. Madison (WI), 2001.

• Casa de la Américas. Semana de Luisa Valenzuela, Nº 226. La Habana, enero/febrero 2002.
• Luisa Valenzuela: Simetrías/Cambio de armas. Luisa Valenzuela y la crítica. Ediciones ExCultura (España), 2002.
• Díaz, Gwendolyn (ed.): Luisa Valenzuela sin máscara.

  Buenos Aires, Feminaria Editora, 2002.

• Bilbija, Ksenia: Yo soy trampa. Ensayos sobre coolness obra de Luisa Valenzuela. Buenos Aires, Feminaria Editora, 2003.

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