María Moreno (writer) explained

María Moreno
Birth Name:María Cristina Forero
Birth Date:7 May 1947
Birth Place:Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation:Writer, journalist, cultural critic

María Cristina Forero (born 7 May 1947), known by her pseudonym María Moreno, is an Argentine writer, journalist, and cultural critic. Considered one of the most prominent contemporary Argentine chroniclers and essayists, she has dedicated herself to journalistic work and writings related to women's and feminist themes, in addition to fiction.[1] [2]

UBA academic Laura A. Arnés described her first novel, , as one of the three "central novels for an Argentine lesbian tradition", along with En breve cárcel by Sylvia Molloy and Monte de Venus by Reina Roffé.[3] Her second novel, Black out (2016), was internationally acclaimed and received the Critics' Award for Best Argentine Creative Writing.

Early years

María Cristina Forero was born in Buenos Aires on 7 May 1947.[1] [4] She married journalist, and they had one son together. At age 26, she began writing articles signed with her husband's name, which he submitted to the newspaper La Opinión. When his editor praised one of these, he admitted the ruse, but rather than being upset, the editor invited her to continue contributing, which she did under the name María Moreno.[5] She retained this penname after she and Marcelo divorced. In an article for Clarín titled "La chillona alegría de una época" (The Shrill Joy of an Era), she explained,

She went on to write for the magazines Sur and , and the TV program .[2] In addition, she was an editorial secretary for the newspaper .[6] [7] In 1984, she founded Alfonsina, the first feminist magazine of the return to democracy after the National Reorganization Process.[7] [8]

Literary career

In 1992, Moreno published her first book, the novel , about a poet in the so-called "Paris-Lesbos" of the 1920s and '30s.[9] In 1994, she published the nonfiction chronicle El Petiso Orejudo.[8] In 1999, she received the Nexo Award for her work against discrimination based on gender identity.[10]

The following decade, she published the essay books A tontas ya locas (2001), El fin del sexo y otras mentiras (2002), Vida de vivos (2005), and Banco a la sombra (2007).[11] In 2002, she obtained a Guggenheim Fellowship.[12] In 2005, she hosted the television program Portaretratos on the channel .[13] From 2005 to 2010, she was the communications coordinator of the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas.[14]

In 2007, she received a teacher's award from the .[15]

In 2011, Moreno published the chronicle La comuna de Buenos Aires. Relatos al pie del 2001, about the December 2001 crisis, and the essay collection Teoría de la noche.[11] That year she also received a for lifetime achievement from the Buenos Aires Legislature.[16]

In 2013, she published Subrayados. Leer hasta que la muerte nos separe, a collection of literary essays on authors such as Vladimir Nabokov and Roland Barthes.[13] In 2015, she co-directed the program La patria a cuadros on Televisión Pública with painter .[17] In 2016, she published her second novel, Black out, a mix of chronicle, essay, and autobiography, which was well received by critics and earned her international recognition and the Critics' Award for Best Argentine Creative Writing.[18] [19]

In 2018, Moreno published the essay books Oración. Carta a Vicki y otras elegías políticas and Panfleto. Erótica y feminismo.[20] [21] In 2019, she edited Loquibambia, a book of "queer etchings".[22] In 2020, she published the memoir Contramarcha. The same year, she was appointed director of the .[23] She also received the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award for her "groundbreaking and multifaceted" work.[24]

In July 2021, the writer suffered a stroke, from which she recovered by 2023.[25] [26] In 2022, Random House reissued her first novel.[27] In November 2023, she published her twelfth book of essays, Pero aun así. Elogios y despedidas.[11] The same month, she received Lifetime Achievement Award.[28]

In 2024, Moreno received a Diamond Konex Award as the most important writer in the last decade in Argentina.[4] [29]

Works

Fiction

Chronicles

Essays

Awards and recognition

Notes and References

  1. News: María Moreno y su interpretación del suicidio de Alfonsina Storni, la poeta que eligió 'morir en los cabales porque más pudre el miedo' . María Moreno and Her Interpretation of the Suicide of Alfonsina Storni, the Poet Who Chose to "Die in her right mind because fear rots more" . . es . 2023-11-13 . 2024-08-29.
  2. Web site: María Moreno, la brillante teórica feminista que tiene una pluma privilegiada . María Moreno, the Brilliant Feminist Theorist Who Has a Privileged Pen . Cecilia . Absatz . . es . 2023-11-15 . 2024-08-29.
  3. Book: Arnés, Laura A. . Ficciones lesbianas: Literatura y afectos en la cultura argentina . Lesbian Fictions: Literature and Affections in Argentine Culture . Madreselva . 9789873861079 . 10 . December 2016 . 2024-08-29 . Issuu.
  4. Web site: María Moreno: Premio Konex 2024: Biografías, Memorias y Diarios . . es, en . 2024-08-30.
  5. Realidad y Artificio. La escritura crónica de María Moreno . Reality and Artifice: María Moreno's Chronicle Writing . Zaradat . Domínguez Galván . . 121–122 . es . 2017-06-05 . 2024-08-29.
  6. María Moreno . . . es . 2024-08-29.
  7. Una poética del nombre: los 'comienzos' de María Moreno hacia mediados de los años 80 en el contexto cultural argentino . A poetics of the name: Maria Moreno's "beginnings" in the mid-eighties in the Argentinean cultural context . Lucía María de . Leone . . 36 . es . June 2011 . 2024-08-29 . SciELO . 10.1590/S0104-83332011000100009. free . 11336/192614 . free .
  8. Web site: María Moreno cronología bibliografía . Audiovideoteca de Escritores . . es . https://web.archive.org/web/20161023060616/https://audiovideotecaba.com/maria-moreno-cronologia-bibliografia/ . 2016-10-23 . dead . 2024-08-29.
  9. News: María Moreno: 'Me sucedió un cataclismo del que no me repongo, pero voy a escribir sobre eso' . Maria Moreno: "A cataclysm happened to me and I haven't recovered, but I'm going to write about it" . Carlos . Aletto . . Buenos Aires . es . 2022-11-21 . 2024-08-29.
  10. News: Conversar es fuente de conocimiento . Conversation is a source of knowledge . . Buenos Aires . es . 2018-08-07 . 2024-08-30.
  11. News: María Moreno, donde lo correcto se tambalea . Maria Moreno, Where What is Right is Shaken . Walter . Lezcano . . es . 2023-11-18 . 2024-08-29.
  12. Web site: María Moreno . . 2024-08-29.
  13. Web site: Ensayos 'subrayados' de María Moreno . Estandarte . es . 2013-09-05 . 2024-08-29.
  14. Web site: Coordinador Maria Moreno . . es . https://web.archive.org/web/20100715101840/http://www.rojas.uba.ar/programacion/coordinadores/moreno.php . 2010-07-15 . dead . 2024-08-30.
  15. News: TEA premió a sus maestros . TEA Awards its Teachers . . Buenos Aires . es . 2007-07-20 . 2024-08-30.
  16. Web site: Entregaron los premios Lola Mora 2011 . The 2011 Lola Mora Awards Presented . . es . 2011-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210304162519/https://www.legislatura.gov.ar/_post_old.php?ver=1523 . 2021-03-04 . dead . 2024-08-30.
  17. Web site: Se presentó 'La Patria a cuadros' en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes . "The Homeland in Pictures" Presented at the National Museum of Fine Arts . Secretariat of Culture of Argentina . es . 2015-06-13 . 2024-08-30.
  18. News: María Moreno, con la necesidad genuina de los salvajes . Maria Moreno, with the Genuine Need of the Savages . Alejandro . Bellotti . . Buenos Aires . es . 2016-11-01 . 2024-08-29.
  19. News: María Moreno recibió el premio de la Crítica en la Feria del Libro . María Moreno Receives the Critics' Award at the Book Fair . . es . 2017-05-10 . 2024-08-29.
  20. News: La novela familiar . The Family Novel . Luciana de . Mello . . Buenos Aires . es . 2018-04-03 . 2024-08-30.
  21. News: Luche y goce . Fight and Joy . Luciana de . Mello . . Buenos Aires . es . 2019-02-27 . 2024-08-30.
  22. News: María Moreno presenta las aguafuertes queer de 'Loquibambia' . Maria Moreno Presents the Queer Etchings of "Loquibambia" . Luciana de . Mello . . Buenos Aires . es . 2020-05-03 . 2024-08-30.
  23. News: María Moreno es la nueva directora del Museo del Libro y de la Lengua . María Moreno is the New Director of the Museum of Books and Language . . es . 2020-01-13 . 2024-08-30.
  24. News: Rupturista y fuera del canon: la escritora María Moreno fue distinguida en Chile . Disruptive and Outside the Canon: The Writer María Moreno is Honored in Chile . Paula . Conde . . Buenos Aires . es . 2019-06-25 . 2024-08-30.
  25. News: La escritora María Moreno, directora del Museo del Libro y de la Lengua, tuvo un ACV . The Writer María Moreno, Director of the Museum of Books and Language, Has a Stroke . . es . 2021-07-03 . 2024-08-30.
  26. News: María Moreno: así empieza el libro que escribió 'con un solo dedo' después de su ACV . Maria Moreno: This is How the Book She Wrote "with just one finger" After Her Stroke Begins . René . Salomé . . es . 2023-11-08 . 2024-08-30.
  27. News: A treinta años de su edición original vuelve 'El affair Skeffington' de María Moreno . Thirty Years After its Original Edition, "The Skeffington Affair" by María Moreno Returns . Claudio . Zeiger . . Buenos Aires . es . 2022-11-20 . 2024-08-30.
  28. News: El Premio Ñ a la Trayectoria fue para la gran María Moreno . The Ñ Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to the Great María Moreno . . Buenos Aires . es . 2023-11-23 . 2024-08-30.
  29. Web site: La escritora Maria Moreno recibirá el Konex de brillante por su labor en la última década . Clarin.

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