5 Contemporary Argentinian Authors You Should Know
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Samanta Schweblin is the author of various novels and short story collections, including Pájaros en la boca (2009), Distancia de rescate (2014), and Kentukis (2018). Born in Buenos Aires, Schweblin has earned numerous accolades, such as the Casa de las Américas Prize, the Premio Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and the Shirley Jackson Award. She was named one of the twenty-two best writers under the age of thirty-five by the British magazine Granta, and the English translation of her novel Distancia de rescate (Fever Dream, trans. by Megan McDowell) was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany. |
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Mariana Enríquez is an Argentinian journalist, short story writer, and novelist. Her novels include Bajar es lo peor (1995), Como desaparecer completamente (2004), Éste es el mar (2017), and Nuestra parte de noche (2019), and she is the author of the short story collections Los peligros de fumar en la cama (2009) and Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016). She holds a degree in Journalism and Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. Excerpts from her work have appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She resides in Buenos Aires.
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César Aira is a writer and translator. Born in 1949, Aira is the author of more than eighty novels, short story collections, and essays including Cómo me hice monja (1993), Cómo me reí (2005), El cerebro musical (2016), and Fulgentius (2020). He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, such as the Konex Award, the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award, and the Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been shortlisted both for the Man Booker International Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Aira resides in Buenos Aires and writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País.
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Paula Porroni is a writer from Argentina. Born in Buenos Aires in 1977, she studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires and has earned two Masters degrees: one in Latin American Studies at Cambridge University in England and another in Spanish Creative Writing at New York University. Her first novel Buena alumna was published by Editorial Minúscula in 2016, and explores the self-flagellating inner monologue of an ambitious student who goes back to her college town in search of employment and watches as her hopes for success vanish in front of her. Porroni currently lives in London.
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Pola Oloixarac was born in Buenos Aires. She holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires and is the author of the novels Las teorías salvajes (2014) and Las constelaciones oscuras (2015), both of which have been translated to nine languages. Oloixarac has written articles for a variety of publications such as The New York Times, The Telegraph, Rolling Stone, Revista Clarín, Quimera, América Economía, among others. In 2010, she was chosen by Granta as one of the best young contemporary novelists in Spanish. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is completing a PhD at Stanford University.
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8/3/2020
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