Gabriela Bustelo

Gabriela Bustelo
Gabriela Bustelo at Altea, summer of 2014
Born (1962-05-18) May 18, 1962
Madrid, Spain
Occupation Writer, Journalist
Literary movement Generation X (Spain)

Gabriela Bustelo (Madrid, 1962) is a Spanish author, journalist and translator.

Included in the 1990 neorealist generation of Spanish novelists, Bustelo made her debut with Veo Veo (Anagrama, 1996), which placed her in the literary Generation X. She shares with José Ángel Mañas, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria a crisp style visibly influenced by commercial culture — advertising, pop music, film and television. Gabriela Bustelo is one of the few Spanish women who have written science fiction. Her second novel Planeta Hembra (RBA, 2001), located in New York, is a dystopia that envisaged —almost two decades ago— the underlying conflict between women and men that in the 21st century has become the MeToo Movement as a global battle of the sexes. La historia de siempre jamás (El Andén, 2007) portrays the frivolity of European upper classes. In 1996 she began to write for publications such as Vogue and Gala (magazine), having penned political columns for a decade at newspapers La Razón and La Gaceta. After signing from 2015 to 2017 a weekly tribune for the Spanish digital newspaper "Vozpópuli" (vozpopuli.com) and a weekly op-ed column in English for the digital newspaper "The Objective" (theobjective.com), Bustelo has been writing a weekly op-ed column for "Cuarto Poder" (cuartopoder.com) since September 2017. She has contributed cultural articles to Colombian magazine "Arcadia" (revistaarcadia.com) since 2005.

Translations

Bustelo has translated to Spanish the works of classics such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and well-known contemporaries including Raymond Chandler, Muriel Spark and Margaret Atwood.

See also

References

  • "Mapping a space-character interface in the narratives of Spain's Generation X: Scorn for a lost past in Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo", Corey Michael Rubin, University of Iowa, 2013
  • Henseler, Christine (2011). "The Real World of Big Brother in Veo Veo by Gabriela Bustelo". Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age: Generation X Remixed. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 132–146. ISBN 978-0-2301-0291-0. Review in Spanish
  • Dorothy Odartey-Wellington (2008). "2 Urban Fictions/Popular Fictions: Gabriela Bustelo's Veo veo and Ismael Grasa's De Madrid al cielo". Contemporary Spanish Fiction: Generation X. Associated University Presse. pp. 49–70. ISBN 978-0-87413-008-9.
  • Bosse, Candice L. (2007). "4 Veo Veo: Consumption and the Dazzling Diva Image". Becoming and Consumption: The Contemporary Spanish Novel. Lexington Books. pp. 115–152. ISBN 978-0-7391-1631-9.
  • Molinaro, Nina (2007). "12 Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo". In Henseler, Christine; Pope, Randolph D. Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture. Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 203–215. ISBN 978-0-8265-1565-0.
  • Henseler, Christine (2003). Contemporary Spanish Women's Narrative and the Publishing Industry. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02831-1.
  • Labanyi, Jo (25 February 1999). "10 Narrative in culture, 1975–1996". In Gies, David T. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Cambridge University Press. pp. 154–156. ISBN 978-0-521-57429-7.
  • 2005 interview with the author
  • 'Self and the City. Spanish Women Writing Utopian Dreams and Nightmares. Elizabeth Russell.
  • 'The Feminist Double Standard and Post-Feminist Identity Problem. Conference at Keene State College, New Hampshire, United States. March 9, 2009
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