Luisa Valenzuela

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Luisa Valenzuela in Quito, 1990.

Luisa Valenzuela (born November 26, 1938 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is an Argentine writer and journalist.

Life

Luisa Valenzuela was born on November 26, 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the writer Luisa Mercedes Levinson and a doctor. Authors such as Adolfo Bioy Casares , Jorge Luis Borges and Ernesto Sábato went to and from her mother's house . Although she was more drawn to the natural sciences as a child, at the age of 17 she began to publish in various magazines, such as Atlántida , El Hogar , Esto Es , and also worked for Radio Belgrano. When she was twenty, shortly after marrying a French businessman, she settled in Paris , where she worked for Radio Télévision Française and met members of the Tel Quel group and the " Nouveau Roman " group. There she also wrote her first novel Hay que sonreír . In 1958 their daughter Anna-Lisa was born. In 1961 she returned to her home country to work for the daily newspaper La Nación and for the magazine Crisis . In 1965 she divorced her husband. In 1967/68 she undertook extensive trips through Bolivia, Peru and Brazil on behalf of La Nación .

In 1969 she received a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Iowa , where she wrote another novel, El gato eficaz, in the International Writers' Program . Between 1972 and 1974 she lived alternately in Mexico , Paris and Barcelona , with a short stay in New York City , where she was a scholarship holder of the Argentine Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

In the course of the tightening military dictatorship (the so-called Proceso de Reorganización Nacional ) in Argentina, the censorship of which fell victim to part of her novel Como en la guerra (she had to delete a scene of torture), she went to the USA in 1979 , where she did the next 10 Years spent. Her collection of stories Cambio de armas (Weapons Exchange) also appeared there, as did her novel Cola de lagartija , the main character of which is the former interior minister of Isabel Perón , José López Rega .

Luisa Valenzuela worked as "Distinguished Writer in Residence" at the Center for Inter-American Relations and at the City University of New York and Columbia University , where she was head of a literary writing workshop for ten years. She has also lectured and held courses at Northwestern University , the University of Wisconsin, and the Pan American Society of New England. She becomes a Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities of New York University, Member of Fund for Free Expression, and Member of Freedom to Write Committee of PEN American Center. In 1983 she received a Guggenheim scholarship. After a short visit to her home country in 1983 (after the re-establishment of democracy), she finally returned to Buenos Aires in 1989, where she finished her novels Realidad nacional desde la cama (actually a commissioned work for the theater) and Novela negra con argentinos .

In 2001 the Cuban Casa de las Américas in Havana dedicated a week-long symposium to her. In 2002 a conference on Luisa Valenzuela's literary work was held at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA). In November 2008, a symposium was held at the University of Vienna on her 70th birthday , attended by international experts. She currently (2008) lives in Buenos Aires, where she works as a journalist.

Prizes and awards

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Novels

  • Hay que sonreír . Buenos Aires: Editorial Americalee, 1966. (CD-Rom: Buenos Aires, Ediciones La Margarita Digital, 2004).
  • El gato eficaz . México: Ediciones Joaquín Mortíz, 1972. (Recent editions: Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1991, 2001).
  • Como en la guerra . Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1977. (Recent editions: La Habana: Ediciones Casa de las Américas, 2001).
  • Cola de lagartija . Buenos Aires: Editorial Bruguera, 1983. (Recent editions: México: Difusión Cultural, UNAM, 1992. México: Planeta, 1998).
  • Realidad nacional desde la cama . Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 1990, 1993.
  • Novela negra con argentinos . Barcelona: Ed. Plaza y Janés, 1990. (Recent editions: Hanover (NH): Ediciones del Norte, 1990. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1991).
  • La Travesía . Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2001. (Newer editions: Editorial Alfaguara, México, 2002, Bogotá 2002).
  • El Manana . Buenos Aires: Seix Barral, 2010.

Stories and short stories

  • Los heréticos . Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidós, 1967.
  • Aquí pasan cosas raras . Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1975 and 1991.
  • Libro que no tired . México: Difusión Cultural, UNAM, 1980.
  • Cambio de armas . Ediciones del Norte, Hanover, 1982. (Recent editions: México: Martín Casilla Editores, 1982. Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2004).
  • Donde viven las águilas . Buenos Aires: Editorial Celtia, 1983.
  • Simetrías . Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 1993. (Newer edition: Barcelona: Ed. Plaza y Janés, 1997).
  • Antología personal . Buenos Aires: Ediciones Desde la Gente, 1998.
  • Cuentos completos y uno más . México / Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1999, 2001.
  • Simetrías / Cambio de Armas (Luisa Valenzuela y la crítica) . Valencia: Ediciones ExCultura, 2002.
  • El placer rebelde. Antología general . Prólogo y selección de Guillermo Saavedra. Buenos Aires, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003.
  • Microrrelatos completos hasta hoy . Córdoba (Arg.): Editorial Alción, 2004.
  • Trilogía de los bajos fondos (Hay que sonreír, Como en la guerra, Novela negra con argentinos) . México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004.
  • Generosos inconvenientes. Antología de cuentos. Edición de Francisca Noguerol Jiménez. Palencia: menoscuarto ediciones, 2008. (reloj de arena, 35)
  • Tres por cinco . Madrid: Páginas de Espuma, 2008. (Colección Voces / Literatura)
  • Juego de villanos . Barcelona: Thule Ediciones, 2008. (Colección Micromundos, 18)

Essays

  • Peligrosas Palabras . Buenos Aires: Editorial Temas, 2001. (Newer edition: México: Editorial Océano, 2002).
  • Escritura y Secreto . México: Editorial Ariel, 2002. (Newer edition: México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003).
  • Los deseos oscuros y los otros (cuadernos de New York) . Buenos Aires: Ed. Norma, 2002.
  • Acerca de Dios (o aleja) . Rosario: Editorial Fundación Ross, 2007. (Semillas de Eva).
  • Taller de escritura breve . Lima: Editorial Sarita Cartonera, 2007.

Translations

Almost all of Luisa Valenzuela's texts have been translated into English, some also into German, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Serbian and Japanese.

  • Clara, 13 short stories and a novel . Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, USA 1976.
  • "I'm Your Horse in the Night" (translation Rosette C. Lamont), en: Centerpoint (on Time, Space, Dream) . Volume 2, Number 3 (issue 7). New York, fall 1977.
  • Strange Things Happen Here . 19 short stories and a novel. Translated by Helen Lane. New York / London: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1979.
  • The Lizard's Tail (a novel). Translated by Gregory Rabassa. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1983. (Other edition: Serpent's Tail, England 1987).
  • Other weapons (novellas). Translated by Deborah Bonner. Hanover: Ediciones del Norte / Persea Books, USA 1985.
  • Troca d'armas . Trad. Eduardo Brandão. Art Editora. Brasil, 1986. (Portuguese)
  • He Who Searches (a novel). Translated by Helen R Lane. Elmwood Park, IL: The Dalkey Archives, USA 1986.
  • Wisseling van wapens . Vertaling Elisabeth van Elsen. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Wereldbibliotheek, 1988. (Dutch)
  • Open Door (selected short stories). Translated by Hortense Carpentier, J. Jorge Castello, Helen Lane, Christopher Leland, Margaret Sayers Peden, David Unger. San Francisco: North Point Press, USA 1988. (Other edition: Serpent's Tail. England 1992).
  • Buki no kokan . Translated by Ayako Saito. Tokyo: Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers, 1990. (Guess amerika bungaku senshu, 2.) (Japanese)
  • The Censors (selected short stories, bilingual edition). With translations by Hortense Carpentier [et al.]. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, USA 1992.
  • Black Novel (with Argentines) . Translation by Toby Talbot. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. (Other editions: Allen & Unwin, Australia 1992. Latin American Literary Review Press, USA 2001).
  • Bedside Manners (a novel). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. London / Nueva York: Serpent's Tail / High Risk, 1995. (Other editions: Serpent's Tail, UK, 1995).
  • Rec i Misao , Traducción Ksenija Bilbija. Belgrado: Izdavacko Preduzece "Wheel", 1995. (Serbian)
  • Symmetries (short stories). Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. London / Nueva York: Serpent's Tail / High Risk, 1998.
  • Clara (the novel). Translated by Andrea G. Labinger. Pittsburgh, PA: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1999.
  • Romance negro com argentinos . Tradução Paloma Vidal. Rio de Janeiro / Belo Horizonte: Rios Ambiciosos / Autêntica Editora, 2001.
  • Noir con Argentini (novela), Pierluigi Perosini Editore, Italia, 2003. (traduzien de Francesca Dalle Pezze, foreword: María Cecilia Graña)
  • "Pantera oculare" en: María Cecilia Graña, Tra due specchi. 18 racconti fantastici di scrittrici latinoamericane , Roma: Fahrenheit 451, 2004. (Trad. Francesca Dalle Pezze).
  • "Blind dates" en: Revista Pretext , Number 11, London 2005.
  • Realtà nazionale vista dal letto . Prefazione di Antonio Melis, traduzione di Rodja Bernardoni. Iesa: Edizioni Gorée, 2006. (i calanchi, 4)
  • "A family for Clotilde," en Wendy Martin, The Art of Short Story . USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
  • "Uppmaning", "The har mannen arena guldgruban", "Taggar", in: Karavan Nº 4. Estocolmo, 2005 (microrrelatos).

Translations into German

  • “Weapon Exchange”, in: AMORica Latina. My continent, my body. Erotic texts by Latin American authors (translated by Erna Pfeiffer ), Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag, 1991, pp. 143–168. (also in: Liebesfieber . Zurich: Unionsverlag, 2002)
  • “At night I am your horse”, in: Women about the war. A collection of important voices against the war . Edited by Daniela Gioseffi. (translated by Erna Pfeiffer), Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag, 1992, pp. 271–275.
  • “At night I am your horse”, in: Half of Heaven. Women in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Arab world . Merged by Andrea Wörle. Munich: dtv, 1993, pp. 262-265.
  • "Symmetries", in: Torturada. From butchers and sexes (translated by Erna Pfeiffer), Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag, 1993, pp. 221–232.
  • Open gates. Stories from Latin America . (Translated from Argentine Spanish by Erna Pfeiffer), Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag, 1996.
  • “Tango” (translated by Erna Pfeiffer), in ila (magazine of the Latin America Information Center, Bonn) 226, June 15, 1999, pp. 44–45.
  • Fire on the word . Stories. (Translated from Argentine Spanish by Helga Lion, Erna Pfeiffer, Julia Schwaighofer, Eva Srna and Birgit Weilguny). Edition Milo by Drava Verlag. Klagenfurt / Celovec 2008. ISBN 978-3-85435-558-8 .
  • Morning . Novel. (Translated from Argentine Spanish by Helga Lion and Gerald Wallner). Edition Milo by Drava Verlag. Klagenfurt / Celovec 2010. ISBN 978-3-85435-624-0 .

Secondary literature

  • The Review of Contemporary Fiction , Luisa Valenzuela number. The Dalkey Archive Press, USA, fall 1986.
  • Magnarelli, Sharon: Reflections / Refractions, Reading Luisa Valenzuela . New York / Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1988.
  • Cordones-Cook, Juana María: Poética de la transgresión en la novelística de Luisa Valenzuela . New York / Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991.
  • Martínez, Z. Nelly: El silencio que habla: aproximación a la obra de Luisa Valenzuela . Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 1994.
  • World Literature Today : Focus on Luisa Valenzuela. Oklahoma University Press, USA, Autumn 1995.
  • Díaz, Gwendolyn / Lagos, María Inés et al .: La palabra en vilo: narrativa de Luisa Valenzuela . Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1996.
  • Pfeiffer, Erna: Territory of women: body experience as a cognitive process in texts by contemporary Latin American authors . Frankfurt: Vervuert, 1998.
  • Letras Femeninas (special issue on Luisa Valenzuela), vol. XXVII, Nº 1. Ed. Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. Madison (WI), 2001.
  • Casa de la America . Semana de Luisa Valenzuela, various authors. Nº 226. La Habana, enero / febrero 2002.
  • Luisa Valenzuela: Simetrías / Cambio de armas. Luisa Valenzuela y la crítica . Ediciones ExCultura (España), 2002.
  • Díaz, Gwendolyn (ed.): Luisa Valenzuela sin máscara . Buenos Aires, Feminaria Editora, 2002.
  • Bilbija, Ksenia: Yo soy trampa. Ensayos sobre la obra de Luisa Valenzuela . Buenos Aires, Feminaria Editora, 2003.
  • Díaz, Gwendolyn, María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem and Erna Pfeiffer (eds.): Texto, contexto y postexto: Aproximaciones a la obra literaria de Luisa Valenzuela . Pittsburgh (PA): IILI, 2010 (Nueva América series).

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personal data
SURNAME Valenzuela, Luisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina