Claudia Amengual

Claudia Amengual 2014 (Image: Lucía Alegre).

Claudia Amengual Puceiro (born January 7, 1969 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan writer , lecturer and translator .

Life

Amengual initially worked as a teacher and later as an English-Spanish translator. She studied literature at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo and graduated with a licentiate . From 2003 studies in Spain at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander followed . She has been teaching literary translation since 2010.

As a writer, she has been active since 1997 with short stories and small articles in magazines and has also been able to publish in anthologies abroad. Her debut novel La rosa de Jericó ( The Rose of Jericho ) was published in 2000. Her novel Desde las cenizas ( From the Ashes ) was awarded the 2006 Prize for Literature Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz .

In 2007 she took part in the International Literature Festival Berlin , in the same year she became a member of the international literary group Bogotá 39 .

In 2012, Rara avis ( rare bird ) appeared, a biography about the Uruguayan poet Susana Soca (1906-1959), who was in literary competition with the writer Victoria Ocampo at the time. The novel Cartagena , a tribute to Gabriel García Márquez , was selected as a finalist for the 2014 Premio Herralde de Novela (Herralde Novel Prize).

Works

Fiction

• La rosa de Jericó. Novel. Doble Clic Edición, Montevideo 2000, ISBN 9974-670-10-1 .
• El vendedor de escobas. Novel. Edición Fin de Siglo, Montevideo 2002, ISBN 9974-49-282-3 .
• Desde las cenizas. Novel. Alfaguara, Montevideo 2005, ISBN 9974-95-076-7 .
• Más que una sombra. Novel. Alfaguara, Montevideo 2007, ISBN 978-9974-95-152-5 .
• Nobleza obliga. Doble Clic Edición, Montevideo 2009, ISBN 978-9974-670-58-7 (collection of columns in the Galería magazine )
• Falsas ventanas. Novel. Alfaguara, Montevideo 2011, ISBN 978-9974-95-477-9 .
• El rap de la morgue y otros cuentos. La Pereza Ediciones, Miami, Florida 2013, ISBN 978-0-615-90088-9 (9 stories)
• Cartagena . Novel. Alfaguara, Montevideo 2015, ISBN 978-9974-723-61-0 .
• El lugar inalcanzable . Novel. Alfaguara, Montevideo 2018, ISBN 978-9974-888-31-9 .
• Juliana y los libros . Novel. Lumen, Montevideo 2020, ISBN 978-9974-903-63-0 .

Articles in non-fiction books

• Texts by Claudia Amengual in: Diez años de Arquitectos de la Comunidad. Sociedad de Arquitectos del Uruguay, Montevideo 2010, ISBN 978-9974-98-172-0 .
• Rara avis. Vida y obra de Susana Soca. Biography. Taurus, Montevideo 2012, ISBN 978-9974-95-630-8 .
• Una mirada al periodismo cultural. Jaime Clara y “Sábado Sarandí”. Planeta en Uruguay, Montevideo 2016, ISBN 978-9974-737-72-3 (essay)

So far none of her works has been translated into German.

Prices

• 2006 Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for Desde las cenizas

Web links

• Short biography of Claudia Amengual on the website of the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (German)
• Literature by and about Claudia Amengual in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Literature by and about Claudia Amengual in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography in Suplemento Cultural de El Derecho Digital ( Memento of December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 18, 2015 (Spanish)
2. ↑ Blog: Tigre sin Tiempo , April 28, 2007 , accessed on August 18, 2015 (Spanish).
3. ↑ La escritura de Más que una sombra . In: piedepágina No. 12 August 2007, accessed on 25 August 2011 . 
4. ↑ Presentación de Falsas ventanas en el Solís. (No longer available online.) In: El País . May 6, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 18, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ↑ Advertisement from the publisher ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 18, 2015 (Spanish). 
6. ↑ Rara Avis. (No longer available online.) Prisa Ediciones, archived from the original on August 28, 2012 ; accessed on August 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Publisher's advertisement , accessed on October 31, 2016 (Spanish).