Angelica Gorodischer

Angélica Gorodischer 1998 at the "Primer Encuentro Internacional de Escritoras" in Rosario, Argentina, August 1998

Angélica Gorodischer ( July 28, 1928 in Buenos Aires – February 5, 2022 in Rosario ) was an Argentine writer .

Life

Angélica Gorodischer was born Angélica Arcal in Buenos Aires in 1928; after marrying the architect Sujer Gorodischer in 1948, she adopted his family name. She attended elementary and high school at Escuela Normal No. 2 de Profesoras in Rosario in the province of Santa Fe , where she resided from 1936. She began studying at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, but did not complete it.

In 1964 she won the competition of the magazine Vea y Lea with the crime story "En verano, a la siesta y con Martina". In 1988 she received a Fulbright scholarship to attend the University of Iowa 's International Writing Program . In 1991, also thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, she taught at the University of Northern Colorado . In 1998 she was awarded the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE) prize, named after the well-known Argentine author Silvina Bullrich , for the best novel by a woman published in three years.

In her hometown of Rosario, Angélica Gorodischer organized three important congresses on the literary work of Argentine women writers: the first took place in 1998, the second in 2000 and the third in 2002 under the title “Encuentro Internacional de Escritoras”. She has given more than 350 lectures at home and abroad, in particular on fantastic literature and on women's writing . From 1967 she was also a member of the jury for various literary prizes in Argentina and other countries and has held numerous literary workshops. She died in February 2022 at the age of 93.

Prizes and awards

• 1964: Prize Vea y Lea, tercer concurso nacional de cuentos policiales
• 1965: Premio Club del Order
• 1984: Premio Mas Alla
• 1984: Premio Poblet
• 1984/1985: Premio Emece
• 1985: Prize Sigfrido Radaelli, Club de los XIII
• 1986: Premier Gilgamesh
• 1994: Premio Konex de Platino
• 1996: Premio Dignidad of the Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos, for services to the human rights of women
• 1998: Premio Bullrich of the Argentine Writers' Association SADE for the best novel by a woman of the triennium
• 2000: Esteban Echeverría Prize (narrativa)
• 2007: Award ILCH, California, for her complete works
• 2007: Ciudadana Ilustre de Rosario (Honorary Citizen of Rosario)
• 2011: World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement

factories

Angélica Gorodischer became known beyond national borders primarily for her science fiction novels , crime thrillers and fantastic stories and is considered one of the most important writers of the genre in Latin America. Some of her texts have been translated into German, English, French, Russian and Czech.

novels

• Opus dos . Barcelona: Minotaur, 1966.
• Kalpa Imperial . Barcelona: Minotauro, 1984. Newer edition: Buenos Aires: Emece Editores, 2001. ISBN 950-04-2273-5
• Floreros de alabastro, alfombras de bokhara . Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1985. ISBN 950-04-0450-8
• Yugo de mango . Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1988. Newer edition: Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, 1995. ISBN 950-04-0779-5
• Fabula de la Virgen y el Bombero . Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1993. ISBN 950-515-134-9
• Prodigios . Barcelona: Lumens, 1994.
• La noche del inocente . Buenos Aires: Emece, 1996.
• Doquier . Buenos Aires: Emece, 2002.
• Tumba de jaguares . Buenos Aires: Emece, 2005.

stories

• Cuentos con soldados . Santa Fe: Club del Orden, 1965.
• Las Pelucas . Buenos Aires: South American Highway, 1969.
• Bajo las jubeas en flor . Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1973.
• Casta luna electronica. Buenos Aires: Andromeda, 1977.
• Trafalgar . Buenos Aires: El Cid, 1979.
• Mala noche y parir hembra . Buenos Aires: La Campana, 1983.
• Las Republicas . Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1991.
• Tecnicas de supervivencia . Rosario: Ed. Municipal de Rosario, 1994.
• Como triunfar en la vida . Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1998. ISBN 950-04-1886-X
• menta . Buenos Aires: Emece, 2000.
• Querido amigo . 2006

anthology

• Cien islas (Articles and Stories). Rosario: Fundacion Ross, 2004.

essays

• A la tarde, cuando llueve . 2007

biography

• Historia de mi madre . Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2003. ISBN 950-04-2528-9

Published Works

• Esas malditas mujeres: antología de cuentistas latinoamericanas . Selected and with a foreword by Angélica Gorodischer. Rosario [u. a.]: Ameghino, 1998. ISBN 987-9216-51-2
• Cuentos de luz y sombra: Obras seleccionadas de los Concursos Interamericanos de Cuentos 2003-2004 , Fundación Avon Para La Mujer. Vinciguerra, 2005. ISBN 950-843-625-5

German translations

• A vase of alabaster . Translated from Argentinian Spanish by Marion Kappel. Berlin: Orlando Frauenverlag, 1992. ISBN 3-922166-89-X . Paperback edition: Frankfurt/Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1997. ISBN 3-596-13278-9 .
• snake mouth . Translated by Marion Kappel. In: Poppies on black felt. Writers from four continents. Zurich: Unionsverlag, 1998. ISBN 3-293-20108-3 .
• In the Shadow of the Jaguar . Stories translated by Rike Bolte, Oliver Dietrich, Diego Ariza Flores, Marko Große, Sarah Otter, Theresa Schulz and Mathias-Fritz Schwadow; with an afterword by Rike Bolte. Berlin: Golkonda Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-942396-08-0
• Kalpa Imperial: The greatest empire that never existed. Roman translated by Karin Will. Berlin: Golkonda Verlag, 2018.

English translations

• Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was . Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin . Northampton: Small Beer Press, 2003. ISBN 1-931520-05-4

literature

• Esther Andradi: My desire rides a motorbike. Interview with Angelica Gorodischer in: Literatur Nachrichten No. 76, 2003, pp. 9-11.
• Rike Bolte: Blossomless Flourish. The unmistakable work of Angélica Gorodischer. In: In the Shadow of the Jaguar. Narratives , pp. 158–181. Berlin: Golkonda Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-942396-08-0 .
• John Clute , Yolanda Molina-Gavilán: Gorodischer, Angélica. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version of August 11, 2018.
• Karsten Kruschel : In the shadow of the jaguar. In: The Science Fiction Year 2012. Edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Sascha Mamczak and Sebastian Pirling. Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-453-52972-4 , pp. 352–354.

web links

Commons : Angélica Gorodischer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Angélica Gorodischer in the German National Library catalogue
• Literature by and about Angélica Gorodischer in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Angélica Gorodischer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Angélica Gorodischer in the Science Fiction Awards+ Database
• Angélica Gorodischer at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by and about Angélica Gorodischer at Open Library
• Angélica Gorodischer in Fantastic Fiction
• Women's World, About Us (in English) biography, bibliography, description of her books, photo
• John Garrison on Kalpa Imperial
• Axxon Enciclopedia de la CF y F Argentina (in Spanish) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction in Argentina
• Gorodischer ( Memento of November 26, 2012 at the Internet Archive ) with text examples in the original and an interview with María Esther Vázquez (Spanish).

itemizations

1. ↑ Angélica Gorodischer, star of Argentine science fiction, dies
2. ↑ Cf. Ingrid Kreksch: Who is Who in Latin American Science Fiction – an overview. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1999 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-14984-X , p. 368.