María Sonia Cristoff

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María Sonia Cristoff (* 1965 in Trelew , Patagonia ) is an Argentine writer and journalist .

life and work

María Sonia Cristoff studied literature in Buenos Aires and has worked there as a journalist for various Argentine newspapers and literary magazines since the 1980s. She also teaches Patagonian literature and creative writing .

In addition to her work as a journalist, it is also the preoccupation with non-fictional literature that is one of the central elements of Cristoff's work as a writer . Travel and dealing with her home region of Patagonia are the focus of her works.

In her short novel Unbehaust , published in German in 2012 . She describes what people do with animals on a day that the first-person narrator spends fleeing from an "existential hangover" in the Buenos Aires zoo. Semi-autobiographically, she reflects on her life in the literary scene in the Argentine capital, her existence as a travel journalist, Patagonia and the living conditions of animals today.

Works

  • Acento extranjero. Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 2000.
  • Relatos de Patagonia. Cántaro, Buenos Aires 2005.
  • Falsa calma. Un recorrido por los pueblos fantasmas de la Patagonia. Seix Barral Argentina, Buenos Aires 2005 (German: Patagonian ghosts. Reports from the end of the world. Berenberg-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937834-40-5 ).
  • Unhoused. What people do with animals . Translated from the Spanish by Peter Kultzen. Berenberg-Verlag, Berlin 2012
  • Under the influence . Translated from the Spanish by Peter Kultzen. Berenberg-Verlag, Berlin 2013
  • Let me out of there . Translated from the Spanish by Peter Kultzen. Berenberg-Verlag, Berlin 2015

Web links

Commons : María Sonia Cristoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aimé Tschiffelys Ritt nach Norden - María Sonia Cristoff's novel “Let me out there” , review by Eva-Christina Meier in the NZZ on September 16, 2015
  2. ↑ Escape from the existential hangover - María Sonia Cristoff's zoological view of the world “Unbehaust” , review by Franz Haas in the NZZ on May 22, 2012, accessed on June 9, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Cristoff, María Sonia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Trelew