Alicia Steimberg
Alicia Steimberg (born July 18, 1933 in Buenos Aires ; † June 17, 2012 there ) was an Argentine writer and translator.
Life
Alicia Steimberg was born on July 18, 1933 in Buenos Aires to a family of Jewish immigrants ; their ancestors came from Russia , Romania and Ukraine . Her father passed away early at the age of 41 when Alicia was only eight, and her mother had great economic difficulties supporting the small family. Many of these childhood experiences would later find themselves fictionally in her autobiographical novels Músicos y relojeros and Su espíritu inocente .
In 1951 Alicia Steimberg graduated from the Instituto Nacional del Profesorado in Buenos Aires as "Maestra Normal" (elementary school teacher in living foreign languages); three years later she acquired the title of “Profesora Nacional” with a qualification to teach English there .
In 1971 her first novel Músicos y relojeros reached the finals of the literature prizes Seix Barral ( Barcelona ) and Monte Ávila ( Caracas ) and was then published by the Centro Editor de América Latina in Buenos Aires. Her second novel, La loca 101 , also reached the finals of the Premio Barral in 1973 and was published in Buenos Aires that same year. In 1983 she received a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed her to participate in the International Writing Program in Iowa . In 1989 her novel Amatista was the only one to make it to the final round of the erotic literary competition “La Sonrisa Vertical” in Barcelona, where it was published in Spanish that same year; it was then published in German translation by Eichborn. In 1992 Alicia Steimberg received the prestigious Premio Planeta Biblioteca del Sur for her novel Cuando digo Magdalena . From 1995 to 1997 she held the position of director in the Dirección del Libro de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación. She also works as a translator from English to Spanish (including: Martin Amis : Heavy Water and Other Stories and Lorrie Moore : American Birds and Michael Thompson / Catherine O'Neill: Best Friends, Worst Enemies ), holds writing workshops and writes articles for various Argentine daily newspapers and magazines. Alicia Steimberg is widowed and has three grown children, some of whom have lived abroad since the beginning of the Argentine military dictatorship in 1976.
Prizes and awards
- Satiricón de Oro (Revista Satiricón)
- Premio SADE 1980 for the story "Última voluntad y testamento de Cecilia"
- La Sonrisa Vertical (Tusquets, Barcelona) 1989
- Premio Planeta 1992
- Primer Premio de Cuento Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires 1998/99 for Vida y vueltas
- Premio Konex de Platino 2004 in the translation category
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Novels
- Músicos y relojeros . Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1971.
- La loca 101 . Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1973. New edition: Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1995. ISBN 950-515-147-0 ISBN 978-950-515-147-9
- Su espíritu inocente . Buenos Aires: Editorial Pomaire, 1981.
- El arbol del placer . Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1986. ISBN 950-04-0582-2
- Amatista . Barcelona: Tusquets, 1989. ISBN 84-7223-124-0
- Cuando digo Magdalena . Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1992. ISBN 950-742-237-4
- La selva . Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2000. ISBN 950-511-661-6
Stories and short stories
- Como todas las mañanas . Buenos Aires: Editorial Celtia, 1983. ISBN 950-9106-27-5 ISBN 978-950-9106-27-7
- El mundo no es de polenta . Buenos Aires: Libros del Quirquincho, 1991.
- Vidas y vueltas . Buenos Aires: Adriana Hidalgo, 1999. ISBN 987-9396-13-8
Children's literature
- Una tarde de invierno un submarino . Buenos Aires: Alfaguara Juvenil, 2001. ISBN 950-511-756-6
Essays and other things
- (together with Hilda Rais): Salirse de madre . Buenos Aires: Croquiñol Ediciones, 1989.
- Aprender a escribir: fatigas y delicias de una escritora y sus alumnos . Buenos Aires: Aguilar, 2006.
Audio books
- Ruiz Guiñazú, Magdalena: Escritoras argentinas en la voz de Magdalena . [Argentina]: Ediciones Sonoras, 2002.
translation to German
- Amatista: erotic lessons . Translated from the Spanish by Veronika Schmidt. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 1992. ISBN 3-8218-0355-X
Translations into English
- Steimberg, Alicia: Musicians & Watchmakers . Transl .: Andrea G. Labinger. Pittsburgh, PA: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1998. ISBN 0-935480-96-X ISBN 978-0-935480-96-2
- Steimberg, Alicia: Call Me Magdalena . Transl .: Andrea G. Labinger. Latin American women writers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8032-4290-5
- Steimberg, Alicia: The Rainforest . Transl: Andrea G. Labinger. Latin American women writers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
literature
- Telaak, Anastasia: Body, language, tradition: Jewish topographies in the work of contemporary authors from Argentina . Berlin: wvb, Wiss. Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-936846-17-0
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Alicia Steimberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Alicia Steimberg in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steimberg, Alicia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th June 2012 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |