Alicia Dujovne Ortiz

Alicia Dujovne Ortiz

Alicia Dujovne Ortiz (born January 4, 1939 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine journalist and writer.

Dujovne Ortiz studied at the university in her hometown. Then she began to write for various newspapers and magazines such as "La opinión", " La Nación " or "Excelsior".

When the junta, led by General Jorge Rafael Videla, came to power in 1976, its journalistic work was severely restricted. In 1978, through the process of national reorganization , all that was left for her was exile. She went to France and settled in Paris .

There Dujovne Ortiz began to write for the newspapers “ Le Monde ” (Paris) and “ La Vanguardia ” ( Barcelona ) and later became editor of Spanish literature at the Gallimard publishing house . After her major literary successes, Dujovne Ortiz settled as a freelance writer in Toulouse .

Honors

• 1986 Guggenheim scholarship
• 2004 and 2014 Premio Konex
• 2015 Premio Platino of the Fundación Konex for their complete works

Works (selection)

Biographies

• El camarada Carlos . Buenos Aires: Aguilar, 2007.
• Maradona soy yo . Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1994.
• Evita Perón . The biography ("Eva Perón"). Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7466-1399-X .
• María Elena Walsh . Madrid: Júcar, 1979.

Poetry

• Mapa del olivado tesoro . Buenos Aires: Editorial Kraft, 1969.
• Orejas invisibles para el rumor de nuestros pasos . Buenos Aires: Editorial Bibliográfica Omeba, 1967.
• Recetas, florecillas y otros contentos . Buenos Aires: Editorial Rayuela, 1973.

Novels

• El agujero en la tierra. Novela . Caracas: Monte Ávila, 1980.
• Anita cubierta de arena. Novela . Buenos Aires: Aguilar, 2003.
• El arbol de la gitana. Novela . Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1997.
• El buzón de la esquina. Novela . Buenos Aires: Calicanto, 1977.
• The tango-colored woman. Roman ("Mireya"). Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7466-1736-7 .
• La muñeca rusa. Novela . Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2009.
• Las perlas rojas. Novela . Buenos Aires: Aguilar, 2005.
• Un corazón tan recio. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2011.
• La Madama . Buenos Aires, Emecé, 2014.
• La más agraciada. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2015.

literature

• Nora Glickman : Andando se hacen los caminos de Alicia Dujovne Ortiz . In: Revista Iberoamericana , No. 191 (2000), pp. 381-392.
• Carolina Rocha: A partir del exilio. The exploración de la identidad en la narrativa de Alicia Dujovne Ortiz . In: Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner u. a. (Ed.): Aves de paso. Autores latinoamericanos entre exilio y transculturación 1970-2002 . Vervuert Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-86527-186-3 .
• Erna Pfeiffer: "Entrevista con Alicia Dujovne Ortiz", in: Hispamérica - Revista de Literatura (Gaithersburg, MD), año XLIII, no. 128/2014, pp. 35–53. ISSN 0363-0471
• "You have not been able to erase our memories". Jewish-Argentine authors in conversation. Edited and translated by Erna Pfeiffer. Vienna: Löcker Verlag, 2016 (edition pen, vol. 39)

Web links

• Literature by and about Alicia Dujovne Ortiz in the catalog of the German National Library