Pedro Mairal

Pedro Mairal (2017)

Pedro Mairal (born September 27, 1970 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine writer.

Life

Pedro Mairal began studying medicine and then studied English literature at the private Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires. His first poems were printed in the daily La Prensa .

Mairal writes for the newspaper, is a screenwriter and author of several novels. His novel Una noche con Sabrina Love was filmed under the same title in 2000. His poetry also appeared under the pseudonym Ramón Paz. The novel La uruguaya became a bestseller in Argentina, and Mairal received the Premio Tigre Juan for it in 2017 .

Works (selection)

novel

• Una noche con Sabrina Love (1998)
  • One night with Sabrina Love: Roman . Translation of Alexandra Messerer. Munich: Droemer Knaur, 2002 ISBN 978-3-426-61512-6
• El año del desierto (2005)
• Salvatierra (2008)
  • The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra: Roman . Translation by Dagmar Ploetz . Munich: Hanser, 2010 ISBN 978-3-446-23559-5
• La uruguaya (2016)
  • On the other side of the river: Roman . Translation by Carola S. Fischer. Hamburg: mare, 2020 ISBN 978-3-86648-603-4

narrative

• Hoy temprano (2001)
• This morning , in: Timo Berger , Rike Bolte (eds.): Asado verbal: young Argentine literature . Berlin: Wagenbach, 2010, pp. 130-136
• Breves amores eternos (2019)

Poetry

• Tigre como los pájaros (1996)
• Consumidor final (2003)
• Ramón Paz: Porn Sonetos (2003)
• Ramón Paz: Porn Sonetos II (2005)
• Ramón Paz: Porn Sonetos III (2008)
• El gran surubí (2013)

Non-fiction

• El equilibrio (2013)
• El subrayador (2014)
• Maniobras de evasión (2017)

Web links

• Literature by and about Pedro Mairal in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Pedro Mairal in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Pedro Mairal at perlentaucher.de
• Pedro Mairal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pedro Mairal , website
• Pedro Mairal , at mare
• Pedro Mairal , at Western Sydney University (2018, en)