Claudia Piñeiro

Claudia Piñeiro

Claudia Piñeiro (born April 10, 1960 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine writer and former journalist.

Life and work

Piñeiro studied economics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and successfully completed this degree. She then began - initially as a freelancer, later as a permanent employee - to write for various newspapers and radio stations.

At the same time, an independent literary work was created over the years, for which she has received various awards. In addition to her novels, Piñeiro also has some plays and several children's books.

Her debut novel was the adultery crime thriller Tuya , which came out in Argentina in 2003. The Swiss Union Publishing House brought out the German edition in 2009 under the title Ganz die Deine . The second, much more ambitious novel Las viudas de los jueves from 2005, which was first published in German as Die Donnerstagwitwen in 2010 for the Frankfurt Book Fair with a focus on Argentina, became a bestseller with over 200,000 copies sold . Translation licenses have been sold in more than a dozen countries around the world.

The story, loosely embedded in a crime thriller, is about the fear of relegation among the middle class and their behavior in the face of the economic crisis. The fictional setting is the gated community "Altos de la Cascada" fifty kilometers from Buenos Aires. Adultery, sterility, and alcoholism play a role behind the facades of wealth, as do summer drought and the golf course. The film adaptation, directed by Marcelo Piñeyro , came out in September 2009 and was a box-office hit in Argentina.

The novel Elena sabe , published in Buenos Aires in 2007 by the Alfaguara publishing house, received the LiBeraturpreis in Germany in 2010 . It is about the Parkinson's disease of a woman (Elena) and her daughter Rita, who takes care of her. The two are entangled in a symbiotic love-hate relationship and believe they are sacrificing themselves for each other.

Piñeiro, who is considered the “shooting star of Argentine literature” not only because of her ambitious bestseller Las viudas de los jueves , was one of the twenty or so authors who represented her country at the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair. She is a women's rights activist, which is clear from the themes and protagonists of her books.

Claudia Piñeiro lives in the Argentine capital, her hometown, as a freelance writer.

Awards (selection)

• 2005 - Premio Clarín for the novel Las viudas de los jueves
• 2010 - LiBeraturpreis for her novel Elena knows about it
• 2010 - Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for Las grietas de Jara

Works (selection)

Novels

• Tuya. 2003.
  • Quite yours. Novel. German by Peter Kultzen . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-293-20458-4 .
• Las viudas de los jueves. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2005.
  • The Thursday widows. Novel. German by Peter Kultzen: Unionsverlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-293-00417-7 .
• Elena sabe. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2007.
  • Elena knows. Novel. German by Peter Kultzen. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-293-00404-7 .
• Las grietas de Jara. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2009.
  • The crack. Novel. German by Peter Kultzen. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-293-00431-3 .
• Betibú. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2011.
  • Betibú. Novel. German by Peter Kultzen. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-293-00453-5 .
• Un comunista en calzoncillos. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2013, ISBN 978-9-870-42866-4
  • A communist in his underpants. Novel. German by Peter Kultzen. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-293-00475-7 .
• Una suerte pequeña. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2015, ISBN 978-987-738-044-6
  • A little luck. Novel. German by Stefanie Gerhold. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-293-00506-8 .
• Las maldiciones . Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2017, ISBN 978-8420429601 .
  • The private secretary. Novel. German by Peter Kultzen. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2018, ISBN 9783293005341

Plays

• Cuánto vale una heladera. Ministerio de Educación, Buenos Aires 2004.
• Un mismo árbol verde.
• Verona.

Children's books

• Un ladrón entre nosotros. Norma, Bogotá 2005, 92 pp.
• Serafín, el escritor y la bruja. Ed. Don Bosco, Buenos Aires 2000; Edebé, Barcelona 2000, 95 pp.

radio play

• Quite yours. Direction / Editing: Irene Schuck , Translation: Peter Kultzen , Contributors: Astrid Meyerfeldt , Axel Milberg , Laura Maire , Heidrun Bartholomäus , Simon Boer , Katharina Burowa , Inga Busch , u. a., 43 minutes, DLR 2008.

literature

• Gwendolyn Díaz: Women and Power in Argentine Literature. Stories, Interviews and Critical Essays. University of Texas Press, Austin TX 2007, ISBN 978-0-292-71649-0 ( Texas Pan-American Literature in Translation Series ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Claudia Piñeiro in the catalog of the German National Library
• Claudia Piñeiro in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Claudia Piñeiro at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2013 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.  
2. ^ Der Standard from October 4, 2010: "LiBeraturpreis" to Claudia Pineiro
3. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur from October 2, 2010: naming Pineiros as a "shooting star"