Gabriela Bustelo Explained

Gabriela Bustelo
Birth Date:	18 May 1962
Birth Place:	Madrid, Spain
Occupation:	Writer, Journalist.
Alma Mater:	Complutense University of Madrid
Period:	1996-present
Genre:	Dirty realism, Science fiction, Postmodern literature, Roman-a-clef
Movement:	Generation X (Spain)

Gabriela Bustelo (Madrid, 1962) is a Spanish author, journalist and translator.

Biography

Included in the 1990 neorealist generation of Spanish novelists, Bustelo made her debut with Veo Veo (Anagrama, 1996), which placed her in the literary Generation X^{[1] [2] [3]} She shares with José Ángel Mañas, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria a sharp literary style influenced by commercial culture — advertising, pop music, film and television.^[4] Gabriela Bustelo is one of the few Spanish women who have written science fiction.^[5] Her second novel Planeta Hembra (RBA, 2001), located in New York, is a dystopia that envisaged —almost two decades ago— the underlying conflict between women and men that in the 21st century has become the MeToo Movement as a global battle of the sexes. La historia de siempre jamás (El Andén, 2007) portrays the immorality and shallowness of European political elites. In 1996 she began to write pieces on art and culture for publications such as Vogue and Gala (magazine), having penned political columns for fifteen years in national print media and digital newspapers. She contributed cultural articles to Colombian magazine "Arcadia" (revistaarcadia.com) from 2005 to 2015.

Translations

Bustelo has translated to Spanish the works of classics such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and well-known contemporaries including Raymond Chandler, Muriel Spark and Margaret Atwood.

See also

• Spanish Literature
• Science-fiction
• Translation
• Dystopia
• Neorealism (art)

References

• Book: Ketz, Victoria L. . Biotech, Barcelo, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies in Spanish Science Fiction . A Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture . Vanderbilt University Press . 2021 . 978-0-8265-0129-5 . 265–291.
• Book: Rubin, Corey Michael . Mapping a space-character interface in the narratives of Spain's Generation X: Scorn for a lost past in Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo . . 2013.
• Book: Henseler, Christine . The Real World of Big Brother in Veo Veo by Gabriela Bustelo . https://books.google.com/books?id=dbbFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 . Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age: Generation X Remixed . . 2011 . 978-0-2301-0291-0 . 132–146. Review in Spanish
• Book: Odartey-Wellington, Dorothy . Contemporary Spanish Fiction: Generation X . 2 Urban Fictions/Popular Fictions: Gabriela Bustelo's Veo veo and Ismael Grasa's De Madrid al cielo . 2008 . Associated University Press . 978-0-87413-008-9 . 49–70.
• Book: Bosse, Candice L. . Becoming and Consumption: The Contemporary Spanish Novel . 4 Veo Veo: Consumption and the Dazzling Diva Image . https://books.google.com/books?id=jTivSez94-cC&pg=PA115 . 2007 . . 978-0-7391-1631-9 . 115–152.
• Book: Molinaro, Nina . 12 Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo . Christine . Henseler . Randolph D. . Pope . Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture . https://books.google.com/books?id=k3KY1jSAnewC&pg=PA203 . 2007 . . 978-0-8265-1565-0 . 203–215.
• Book: Henseler, Christine . Contemporary Spanish Women's Narrative and the Publishing Industry . registration . 2003 . . 978-0-252-02831-1 .
• Book: Labanyi, Jo . 10 Narrative in culture, 1975–1996 . David T. . Gies . The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture . https://books.google.com/books?id=C-QS8nDeCjEC&pg=PA147 . 25 February 1999 . . 978-0-521-57429-7 . 154–156.

Notes and References

1. Odartey-Wellington, Dorothy, 'Urban Fictions/Popular Fictions: Gabriela Bustelo's Veo veo and Ismael Grasa's De Madrid al cielo', in "Contemporary Spanish Fiction: Generation X", (Associated University Press), 2008
2. Corey, Rubin, "Mapping a space-character interface in the narratives of Spain's Generation X: Scorn for a lost past in Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo", (University of Iowa), 2013
3. Molinaro, Nina, 'Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo'. In Henseler, Christine; Pope, Randolph D. (eds.). Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture", (Vanderbilt UNiversity Press), 2007
4. Henseler, Christine, 'The Real World of Big Brother in Veo Veo by Gabriela Bustelo', in "Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age: Generation X Remixed", (Palgrave Macmillan). pp. 132–146.
5. Ketz, Victoria L., 'Biotech, Barcelo, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies in Spanish Science Fiction', in "A Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture", (Vanderbilt University Press), 2021