Beatriz Sarlo

Beatriz Sarlo (* 1942 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine journalist , writer and essayist who focuses on literary and cultural criticism .

Career

Sarlo studied at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and began to work at the publishing house Centro Editor de América Latina in the late 1970s, which was a thorn in the side of the Argentine dictatorship under Juan Carlos Onganía from the beginning. From 1972 to 1976 she was part of the editor-in-chief of Los Libros magazine. In addition, she worked from the democratic transition until 2003 as a professor of Argentine literature at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. As a visiting professor, she also gave courses at the universities of Columbia, Berkeley, Maryland and Minnesota.

To this day, Sarlo is one of the most important intellectual voices in Latin America and places one focus of her work on the postmodernity of the subcontinent, which she dubbed "Peripheral Modernity" (modernidad periférica). The book of the same name and the work "Escenas de la vida posmodern" (excerpts from postmodern life) brought her recognition and numerous awards in the academic field. Her publication on the writer José Luis Borges also cemented this reputation.

In addition to her academic texts, her columns, which appear in relevant Argentine and Latin American cultural magazines, deal with the socio-cultural change that, according to Sarlo, is derived from both the modernity crisis and the effects of neoliberalism. Along with authors such as Néstor García Canclini, Jesús Martín Barbero or Carlos Monsiváis, she joins the ranks of important analysts of Latin American culture (s).

Together with members of the Centro Editor de América Latina publishing house, Sarlo formed the Punto de Vista (Standpunkt) group at the end of 1967, which started publishing a magazine of the same name from 1978. From 1978 to 2008, Sarlo was editor-in-chief of Punto de Vista, which dealt with new theoretical concepts within the social, cultural and literary studies. She also writes for the newspapers La Nación, Perfil and the magazine Revista Noticias.

At the beginning of 2012, Sarlo, like many other intellectuals in Argentina, signed a document that criticized the handling of the Argentine government under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's dealings with the Falkland Islands and indicated that the inhabitants of the islands should be regarded as legal entities and that they should be heard to belittle them.

Most recently, Beatriz Sarlo criticized the government under Mauricio Macri , in particular the appointment of two judges by presidential decree.

Works (selection)

(with Carlos Altamirano) Literatura-sociedad (Buenos Aires: Edicial, 1982)
(with Carlos Altamirano) Ensayos argentinos: de Sarmiento a la Vanguardia (Buenos Aires: Ceal, 1983; Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1997)
El imperio de los sentimientos: Narraciones de circulación periódica en la Argentina, 1917–1927 (Buenos Aires: Catálogos, 1985; 2000; Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2011)
Una modernidad periférica: Buenos Aires, 1920 y 1930 (Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión, 1988).
(with Carlos Altamirano) Conceptos de sociología literaria (Buenos Aires: CEDAL [Centro Editor de América Latina], 1990)
La imaginación técnica: Sueños modernos de la cultura argentina (Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión, 1992)
Borges, un escritor en las orillas (1993; Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1995; 1998)
Escenas de la vida posmoderna: Intelectuales, arte y videocultura en la Argentina (Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1994; 2004)
Martín Fierro y su crítica: Antología (Buenos Aires: Centro editor de América Latina, 1994)
Instantáneas: Medios, ciudad y costumbres en el fin de siglo (Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1996)
La máquina cultural: Maestras, traductores y vanguardistas (Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1998)
Siete ensayos sobre Walter Benjamin (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000)
La batalla de las ideas, 1943–1973 (Buenos Aires: Ariel, 2001)
Tiempo presente (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2001)
La pasión y la excepción (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2003)
Tiempo pasado: Cultura de la memoria y giro subjetivo (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2005)
Escritos sobre literatura argentina (Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI, 2007)
La ciudad vista: Mercancías y cultura urbana (Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI, 2009)
La audacia y el cálculo: Kirchner 2003–2010 (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2011)
Signos de Pasión: Claves de la novela sentimental del Siglo de las Luces a nuestros días (Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2012)
Ficciones Argentinas: 33 Ensayos (Buenos Aires: Mardulce, 2012)
Viajes: De la Amazonia a Malvinas (Buenos Aires: Seix Barral, 2014)
Zona Saer (Santiago de Chile, 2016)

Awards

Guggenheim grant
Premio a la Trayectoria from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes
José Donoso Prize from the University of Talca
Konex Prize - Diploma al Mérito por Ensayo Literario, awarded by the Fundación Konex, 1994
Konex Prize - Diploma al Mérito por Teoría Lingüística y Literaria, awarded by the Konex Foundation in 1996
Platinum Konex Prize, 2004
Orden do Merito Cultural, grado Gran Cruz, awarded by the Republic of Brazil, 2009
Freedom of Expression Award, presented by Editorial Perfil, 2011
Plumade Honor Prize, awarded by the Argentine National Academy of Journalism, 2013
Premio Konex - Diploma al Mérito por Ensayo Literario, awarded by the Konex Foundation, 2014
Pedro Henríquez Ureña International Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and the Government of the Dominican Republic, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME	Sarlo, Beatrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine journalist, writer and essayist with a focus on literary and cultural criticism
DATE OF BIRTH	1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires