Selva Almada
Selva Almada (born April 5, 1973 in Villa Elisa , Entre Ríos ) is an Argentine writer.
Life
Selva Almada grew up in a small town in the Chaco . In 1991 she went to study sociology and literary studies in the provincial capital Paraná . In 2000 she moved to Buenos Aires . In 2007 her volume of short stories was published under the programmatic title Una chica de provincia . Almada writes poetry, short stories and novels. For her documentation Chicas muertas she received a grant from the Argentine National Foundation for Art (FNA).
Works (selection)
- Mal de muñecas . Poems. Carne Argentina, 2003
- Niños . Novella. La Plata: Universidad de La Plata, 2005
- Una chica de provincia . Stories. Buenos Aires: Gárgola, 2007 (A girl from the provinces)
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El viento que arrasa . Novel. Buenos Aires: Mardulce, 2012
- Searing wind . Christian Hansen in Romanian. Berlin: Berenberg, 2016
- Intemec . Los Proyectos, 2012
- Ladrilleros . Novel. Buenos Aires: Mardulce, 2013 (brick maker)
- Chicas muertas . Documentary novel. Buenos Aires: Random House, 2014 (Dead Girls)
- El desapego es una manera de querernos . Collected stories. Buenos Aires: Random House, 2015 (Separation is a way of loving)
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El mono en el remolino: Notas del Rodaje de "Zama" de Lucrecia Martel . Buenos Aires: Random House, 2017
- The monkey in the vortex. In: Lettre International 125, Summer 2019, pp. 112–119. ISSN 0945-5167
Web links
- Literature by and about Selva Almada in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Selva Almada in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Selva Almada at perlentaucher.de
- Selva Almada in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Una chica de provincia , blog
- Selva Almada , at the International Literature Festival Berlin , 2016
- Selva Almada , near Berenberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Almada, Selva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th April 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villa Elisa (Entre Ríos) |