Gabriela Alemán

Gabriela Alemán
Born 30 September 1968 Edit this on Wikidata (age 50)
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Gabriela Alemán (born September 30, 1968 Río de Janeiro) is an Ecuadorian writer whose work has been translated into multiple languages.[1]

Biography

Alemán studied translation at University of Cambridge, received a master's in Latin American Literature at Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador) and obtained a doctorate at Tulane..[2]

Honors

The New York Times mentions Alemán's book Humo in their article, "Fiction Books of 2017: An Ibero-American Selection." [3]

In 2015, she was a finalist along with four others for the Gabriel García Márquez Short Story Award, considered the most important narrative award in Spanish.[4]

She was selected by the Hay Festival and Bogotá Capital Mundial del Libro as one of the most important 39 Latin-American writers under the age of 39 in 2007.[5]

In 2006, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work.[6]

Works

Works in English

  • Poso Wells, San Francisco : City Lights Publishers, 2018. ISBN 9780872867550 , OCLC 1049575983[7][8][9][10][11]

Stories

  • En el país rosado, Exlibris, 1994
  • Anabel, relato animado para televisión, 1995
  • Maldito corazón, El Conejo, 1996
  • Zoom, Eskeletra, 1997
  • Fuga permanente, Euterpe, 2001 (Eskeletra, 2002)
  • La cicatriz, Sarita Cartonera / Matapalo Cartonera, 2009
  • Álbum de familia, Estruendomudo, Lima, 2010 (Panamericana, 2011; Cadáver Exquisito, 2012)
  • Álbum de cromos, La Propia Cartonera, 2010
  • La muerte silba un blues, Literatura Random House, 2014

Novels

  • Body time, Planeta, 2003
  • Poso Wells, Eskeletra, 2007 (Aristas Martínez, 2012) (City Lights, translated by Dick Cluster, 2018)
  • Humo, Literatura Random House, Bogotá, 2017

Theater

  • La acróbata del hambre, 1997

Essays

  • Cine en construcción: largometrajes ecuatorianos de ficción 1924-2004, 2004

References

  1. ↑ "Gabriela Alemán - Words Without Borders". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  2. ↑ Esbozo biográfico en El Poder de la Palabra, retrieved 05.04.2018
  3. ↑ "Los libros de ficción de 2017: una selección iberoamericana," 12.17.2017; retrieved 05.04.2018
  4. ↑ "Gabriela Alemán finalista Premio Hispanoamericano de cuento Gabriel García Márquez", 10.27.2015; retrieved 05.04.2018
  5. ↑ "Los 39 mejores escritores menores de 39 años", 04.28.2007; retrieved 05.04.2018
  6. ↑ "Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, Latin America & Caribbean", retrieved 05.04.2018
  7. ↑ "Literature Is the Minefield of the Imagination: An Interview with Gabriela Alemán - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  8. ↑ POSO WELLS by Gabriela Alemán , Dick Cluster | Kirkus Reviews.
  9. ↑ Goyeneche, Teresita (2018-08-10). "Review: Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán". Columbia Journal. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  10. ↑ "Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán". World Literature Today. 2018-08-08. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  11. ↑ "Yesterday's Papers, an excerpt from Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  • Cluster, Dick (2018-07-30). "Literary Citizen of the Andes: Gabriela Alemán and Quito". The Paris Review.
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