Griselda Gambaro

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Griselda Gambaro, 1970

Griselda Gambaro (born July 28, 1928 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine playwright and writer.

Life

Growing up in an immigrant family with Italian roots, in a middle-class family (her father was a post office worker) with four older brothers, Griselda Gambaro first attended high school in Buenos Aires. From 1943 on she worked for a publishing house, from 1947 to 1956 she was an accountant for a sports club. It was only when she married the sculptor Juan Carlos Distéfano, who to a certain extent became her private sponsor, that she was able to retire from the world of work and devote herself to writing - in addition to household and upbringing two children.

In 1970 she lived in Rome for a year and also made frequent stays abroad on lecture tours in the USA , Canada and Europe (e.g. Yale University , New York University , Maryland , Texas , Berkeley , Irvine , Montreal , Ottawa etc.). She was also represented at theater festivals in Caracas , Paris , Cuenca , Bordeaux , Puebla (Mexico) and Berlin . In October 1987 , a symposium on her work was held at Dartmouth College , Hanover (New Hampshire), in which the author took part alongside specialists from several countries. During the Argentine military dictatorship , the author had to go into exile for a few years after her novel Ganarse la muerte was banned by decree because it violated morality and the family as an institution; she lived in Barcelona between 1977 and 1980 . She also took part with the play "Decir sí" (Say yes) in the anti-military regime Teatro Abierto , 1981 in the Teatro Picadero in Buenos Aires.

In 2010 she was one of the official keynote speakers at the Frankfurt Book Fair , which was dedicated to Argentina.

Honourings and prices

Griselda Gambaro has received numerous prizes for her work:

  • Premio Fondo Nacional de las Artes for Madrigal en ciudad 1963
  • Premio Emecé for El desatino 1964
  • Primer Premio Municipal de Teatro of the City of Buenos Aires 1968
  • Premio Argentores 1968, 1976, 1992, 1996
  • Guggenheim scholarship for the genre Roman 1981/82
  • Premio Kónex Diploma al Mérito 1984, 1994 and 2004
  • Premio de la Fundación Torcuato Di Tella 1988 for her dramatic oeuvre
  • Premio de la Asociación de Críticos e Investigadores Teatrales 1990 for "Penas sin importancia"
  • Premio Nacional de Teatro 1992
  • Medalla de la Cátedra Giacomo Leopardi de la Universidad de Buenos Aires 1994
  • Premio de la Academia Argentina de Letras 1998
  • Premio Clarín Espectáculos 2002
  • Premio Kónex de Platino 2004
  • Honorary doctorate from the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte (IUNA) Buenos Aires 2011

Works

Griselda Gambaro often dedicates herself to the repressive politics and social environment of Argentina in her works . Although she has also published novels and short stories, today she is best known as a playwright beyond the borders of her country, her plays have been performed on many stages in Latin America and Spain , but also in many European countries. In general, she is considered to be a representative of the theater of the absurd , but this is only partially true, as she always dramatically implements a specific criticism of a specific society and attaches great importance to the realism component in her dramas.

Often she lets the different levels of the play, drama text and non-verbal code , contradict one another. B. in El campo , where this is already expressed in the choice of title: "campo" can mean a rural idyll in Spanish or a holiday camp for children, but in the course of the plot it becomes clear that associations with military or too The following are more appropriate in a concentration camp : the guards wear SS uniforms, the pianist Emma has short-cropped hair and is humiliated to the extreme by her tormentors. In Gambaro's works, the passivity and good faith of the victims do their part to ensure that those in power have an easy time of it. This is also the case in the novel Ganarse la muerte ( Earning Death, Excerpts in German 1993), in which the orphan Cledy is defenselessly exposed to the cruelty of the family and torturers. In general, family and political violence are often related to one another in Gambaro's work; black humor is one of Gambaro's trademarks. With Información para extranjeros (information for foreigners) the author gets involved in interesting innovations in the performance technique, since the audience does not sit separately from the stage, as they usually do, but is led through a labyrinth of rooms in which various torture scenes take place. Allusions to Frankenstein can be found in the novel and drama Nada que ver (con otra historia) , 1972. Antígona furiosa ( premiered 1986) and La casa sin sosiego ( premiered 1992) were set to music as chamber operas by Jorge Liderman and Gerardo Gandini , respectively ; there are also several radio play adaptations of works by Gambaro.

Novels

  • Una felicidad con menos pena . Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 1967.
  • Nada que ver con otra historia . Buenos Aires: Ed. Noé, 1972. 2nd edition: Buenos Aires: Torres Agüero, 1987.
  • Ganarse la muerte . Buenos Aires: Ed. de la Flor, 1976 (German excerpt under the title "Earning Your Death" in Torturada , edited by Erna Pfeiffer , Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag 1993). New edition Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2002.
  • Dios no nos quiere contentos . Barcelona: Ed. Lumen, 1979.
  • Lo impenetrable . Buenos Aires: Torres Agüero Ed., 1984 and 1988.
  • Después del día de fiesta . Barcelona / Buenos Aires: Seix Barral, 1994. New edition: Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2003.
  • El mar que nos trajo . Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2002.
  • Promesas y desvaríos . Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2004.

stories

  • Madrigal en Ciudad . Buenos Aires: Ed. Goyanarte, 1963.
  • El desatino . Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, 1965 (Premio Emecé).
  • Lo mejor que se tiene . Buenos Aires: Grupo Edit. Norma, 1997 (Premio Academia Argentina de Letras en narrativa 1996/98).
  • Escritos inocentes . Buenos Aires: Grupo Ed. Norma, 1999.

Plays

Angelique Rockas , Emma, ​​El Campo, Internationalist Theater , Londen, 1981
  • Teatro , Vol. 1 (contains Real envido, La malasangre, Del Sol naciente). Buenos Aires: Edic. de la Flor, 1984. 3rd edition 1997.
  • Teatro , Vol. 2 (contains Dar la vuelta, Información para extranjeros, Puesta en claro, sucede lo que pasa). Buenos Aires: Edic. de la Flor, 1987. 2nd edition 1995.
  • Teatro , Vol. 3 (contains Viaje de invierno, Nosferatu, La gracia, El depojamiento, Antígona furiosa y otras piezas breves). Buenos Aires: Edic. de la Flor, 1989. 3rd edition 1997.
  • Teatro , Vol. 4 (contains Las paredes, El desatino, Los siameses, El campo, Nada que ver). Buenos Aires: Edic. de la Flor, 1990.
  • Teatro , Vol. 5 (contains Efectos personales, Desafiar al destino, Morgan, Penas sin importancia). Buenos Aires: Edic. de la Flor, 1991.
  • Teatro , Vol. 6 (contains Atando cabos, La casa sin sosiego, Es necesario entender un poco) Buenos Aires: Edic. de la Flor, 1996/2003.
  • Teatro , Vol. 7 (contains No hay normales, En la columna, Pisar el palito, Para llevarle a Rosita, Cinco ejercicios para un actor, Almas) Buenos Aires: Edic. de la Flor, 2004

Children's literature

  • La cola magica . Buenos Aires: Ed. de la Flor, 1976.

Other

  • Conversaciones con chicos. Sobre la sociedad, los padres, los afectos, la cultura . Buenos Aires: Timerman Editores, 1976 (Conversations with Children). New edition: Ediciones Siglo XX, 1983.

Many of her dramas and novels have been translated , including a. into English, Italian, Czech, Polish, Swedish and French.

Secondary literature

  • Poder, deseo y marginación. Aproximaciones a la obra de Griselda Gambaro . Buenos Aires: Puntosur, 1989.
  • Lasala, Malena: Entre el desamparo y la esperanza. Una traducción filosófica a la estética de Griselda Gambaro . Buenos Aires: Ed. Biblos, 1992.
  • Taylor, Diana: Theater of Crisis . The University of Kentucky Press, 1992.
  • Azor Hernández, Ileana: El Neogrotesco Argentino . Caracas: CELCIT, 1994.
  • Contreras, Marta: Griselda Gambaro. Teatro de la descomposición . Universidad de Concepción (Chile), 1994.
  • Mundani, Liliana: Las máscaras de lo siniestro . Córdoba (Arg.): Alción Editora.

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personal data
SURNAME Gambaro, Griselda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine playwright and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires