Gabriela Wiener Explained

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Birth Place:Lima
Caption:Gabriela Wiener at the 2018 Santiago International Book Fair

Gabriela Wiener (born 1975 Lima) is a Peruvian writer, chronicler, poet and journalist. She is part of the group of new Latin American chroniclers. She has lived in Spain since 2003.

Life

She is the daughter of the prominent political analyst and Peruvian journalist Raúl Wiener and social worker Elsi Bravo. She is a possible descendant of the Austrian-French explorer Charles Wiener.[1]

She studied linguistics and literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and received a master's degree in historical culture and communications from the University of Barcelona. She lived in Barcelona while completing her degree from 2003 to 2011. Since then, she has lived in Madrid.

She worked for the newspaper El Comercio and was a member of the editorial board of magazine. She was also editor in chief of the Spanish magazine Primera Línea and the Spanish edition of Marie Claire magazine.

She has written for a variety of publications, including Corriere della Sera, Words Without Borders,[2] The White Review, Virginia Quarterly Review,[3] Orsai, Esquire, Revue XXI, Clarin, El Universal, El Mercurio, and La Vanguardia.

She is currently a columnist for the Peruvian newspaper La República,[4] a correspondent for the magazine Etiqueta Negra, and a frequent contributor to El País.[5] She also conducts interviews for La República and La Mula.

She is the author of the books Llamada perdida; Sexografías; Nueve Lunas; Mozart, the iguana with priapism and other stories; and the book of poems Exercises for the hardening of the spirit.

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. News: Sánchez Díez . María . Gabriela Wiener Does Not Care if You Don’t See Her Writing as Literature . 11 March 2024 . The New York Times . 30 September 2023.
  2. Web site: Gabriela Wiener – Words Without Borders. Words Without Borders. 31 January 2018.
  3. Web site: Gabriela Wiener VQR Online. www.vqronline.org. 31 January 2018.
  4. Web site: Gabriela Wiener LaRepublica.pe. larepublica.pe. es. 31 January 2018.
  5. Web site: Artículos escritos por Gabriela Wiener. EL PAÍS. es. 31 January 2018.
  6. Web site: Llamada perdida. librosperuanos.com/ .
  7. Web site: Sexografías, de Gabriela Wiener. Letras Libres. es. 31 January 2018.
  8. Web site: Entrevista Exclusiva con la Escritora y Periodista Peruana Gabriela Wiener. americasquarterly.org. 31 January 2018.