Selva Almada Explained

Selva Almada
Birth Date:5 April 1973
Birth Place:Villa Elisa, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Occupation:Writer

Selva Almada (born 5 April 1973) is an Argentine writer of poetry, short stories, and novels. She expanded into nonfiction in 2014 with the book Chicas muertas.

Career

Selva Almada studied Social Communication in Paraná, although she left this program to enter the Professorship of Literature at Paraná's Institute of Higher Education. She began giving shape to her first works, some of which were developed from the workshop that María Elena Lotringer offered at the School of Communication.[1]

Her first stories were published in the Paraná weekly Análisis. From 1997 to 1998 she directed a brief self-managed cultural literary project called CAelum Blue.

Her apprenticeship as a storyteller was largely established in Buenos Aires in the creative space of Alberto Laiseca's literary workshop. Her authority as a writer has been publicly confirmed by literary figures such as Chilean writer Diego Zúñiga and the journalist, writer, and essayist Beatriz Sarlo.[2] Her stories have been included in various anthologies from by the publishers Norma, Mondadori, and Ediciones del Dock, among others.

She gives various literary workshops. From March to July 2017, she directed the Taller de relato autobiográfico Mirarse el ombligo ("Navel Gazing Autobiographical Story Workshop") at Escuela Entrepalabras.

Trilogía de varones

Her literary output gained prestige and praise from critics in 2012 with the publication of her first novel, El viento que arrasa. Claríns magazine highlighted it as "the novel of the year".[3] It has since been reissued several times, was published abroad,[4] and translated into French,[5] Portuguese, Dutch, and German.[6] In 2016, it was the basis for an opera by Beatriz Catani and .[7] First published in English as The Wind that Lays Waste (translated by Chris Andrews), the novel became the first in the so-called "trilogy of men", followed in 2013 by Ladrilleros (translated as Brickmakers by Annie McDermott in 2021) and No es un río in 2021.[8] [9]

In 2021, it was reported El viento que arrasa was in the works to be adapted into a film, directed by Paula Hernández and co-produced by Argentine studios Rizoma and Tarea Fina, and Uruguayan studio Cimarrón.[10]

Chicas Muertas

With her nonfiction chronicle Chicas muertas, Almada brought to light three femicides that occurred in different Argentine provinces in the 1980s, making herself known as a feminist writer.[11] [12] [13]

Personal life

Selva Almada was born in Villa Elisa in the province of Entre Ríos, and lived there until she was 17. In 1991 she moved to Paraná to study, first Social Communication, then Literature, and lived in that city until 1999. Since 2000 she has lived in Buenos Aires.

She made frequent trips to the province of Chaco which, along with her rural experience of childhood and youth spent in the Argentine Littoral, gave rise to several of the environments and themes of her books.[14]

Works

Works in translation

Awards

Notes and References

  1. News: 'Siempre tuve una búsqueda lírica' . 'I Always Had a Lyrical Quest' . Beatriz . Vignoli . . Spanish . 27 April 2014 . 6 December 2018.
  2. ¿De dónde sale esta escritora sorprendente? . Where Does This Amazing Writer Come From? . Diego . Zúñiga . Diego Zúñiga . . Spanish . 4 June 2014 . 6 December 2018.
  3. Los mejores títulos del 2012 . The Best Titles of 2012 . Mauro . Libertella . Clarín Revista Ñ . Spanish . 14 December 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161013100429/http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/literatura/Los-mejores-titulos-del-2012_0_827917433.html . 13 October 2016 . dead . 6 December 2018.
  4. News: Selva Almada, la escritora rural que sale al mundo . Salma Almada, the Rural Writer Going Out Into the World . Víctor . Núñez Jaime . . Madrid . Spanish . 16 September 2015 . 6 December 2018.
  5. News: En el Salón de París, los nuevos escritores argentinos deslumbran a los franceses . At the Paris Salon, the New Argentine Writers Dazzle the French . Nathalie . Kantt . . Paris . Spanish . 22 March 2014 . 6 December 2018.
  6. News: Selva Almada y la violenta claridad del lenguaje . Selva Almada and the Violent Clarity of the Language . Luis Guillermo . Ibarra . La Jornada Semanal . Spanish . 9 August 2015 . 6 December 2018.
  7. News: Soplando en el viento . Blowing in the Wind . Mercedes . Halfon . . Spanish . 11 September 2016 . 6 December 2018.
  8. Web site: Brickmakers: A Novel. New York Journal of Books. Clum. John M.. 28 June 2022.
  9. Web site: Selva Almada: "Son los varones los que se sienten traicionados". Página 12. Friera. Silvina. 7 September 2020. 28 June 2022. es.
  10. Web site: Cannes: Anuncian el nuevo proyecto de Paula Hernández. 13 July 2021. 1 July 2022. es. Haciendo Cine. Oliveros. Mariano.
  11. Web site: Selva Almada, escritora feminista argentina: 'Ser mujer y estar viva es una cuestión de suerte' . Selva Almada, Argentine Feminist Writer: 'Being a Woman and Being Alive is a Matter of Luck' . Rocío . Venegas . El Desconcierto . Spanish . 4 September 2016 . 6 December 2018.
  12. News: Selva Almada, una literatura que sume para 'desmontar el aparato de machismo' . Selva Almada, a Literature that Aims 'To Dismantle the Apparatus of Machismo' . Javier . Bedía Prado . La Prensa . Spanish . 10 August 2016 . 6 December 2018.
  13. News: La única protección es la solidaridad entre nosotras . The Only Protection is Solidarity Among Us . . Spanish . 30 July 2016 . 6 December 2018.
  14. Web site: La confesión de Selva Almada, 'escritora de provincia' . Convession of Selva Almada, 'Province's Writer' . Ricardo . Leguizamón . . Spanish . 21 June 2016 . 6 December 2018 . Elentrerios.com.
  15. Web site: Selva Almada: 'Me aburren los relatos que tienen como protagonista a un escritor' . Selva Almada: 'I am Bored by Stories that Have a Writer as Protagonist' . Matías . Méndez . . Spanish . 16 January 2016 . 6 December 2018.
  16. News: De lo clásico a lo curioso: las becas del FNA . From the Classic to the Curious: FNA Fellowships . . Spanish . 20 October 2017 . 6 December 2018.
  17. News: El peruano Jeremías Gamboa se alza con el Tigre Juan por su novela 'Contarlo todo' . The Peruvian Jeremías Gamboa is Elevated with the Tigre Juan for His Novel 'Contarlo todo' . Jessica M. . Puga . . Oviedo . Spanish . 26 November 2014 . 4 September 2018.
  18. News: El Premio Rodolfo Walsh . The Rodolfo Walsh Award . . Spanish . 4 April 2016 . 6 December 2018.
  19. Web site: The International Booker Prize . live . https://archive.today/20240427054153/https://thebookerprizes.com/the-international-booker-prize . 27 April 2024 . 27 April 2024 . The Booker Prizes.

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