María Cecilia Barbetta

María Cecilia Barbetta (born July 8, 1972 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is a German-speaking writer who lives in Berlin .

Barbetta at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Life

Barbetta attended the German School in her hometown of Buenos Aires and then studied German as a foreign language . She came to Berlin in 1996 with an artist scholarship from the DAAD and received her doctorate in 2000. She then worked for five years as a Spanish teacher at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder . She has been a freelance writer since 2005, in 2007 she received the Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Akademie der Künste and took part in the prose writers' workshop of the Literary Colloquium in Berlin . In 2008 she published her first novel tailoring Los Milagros , written in German. Her second novel, Night Lights, caused a sensation in literary criticism. In October 2018, it held the top spot on Südwestrundfunk's literary best list . The novel was also shortlisted for the 2018 German Book Prize. Barbetta has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2011 .

Los Milagros tailoring changes. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-10-004210-1 .
Night lights. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397289-4 .