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Luisa Valenzuela

Biography

Luisa Valenzuela was born in Buenos Aires in 1938. She started her career as a journalist and then moved first to France and then the United States. Her writing, which has been critical of the Argentinian government, often tends towards the surreal and farcical as she criticises the Argentinian military governments of the 70s and 80s.

Other links

Luisa Valenzuela
Interview
Her homepage (in Spanish)
Luisa Valenzuela (in Spanish)
Los Censores (short story and brief bio) (in Spanish)

Bibliography

1966 Hay que sonreír (Clara : Thirteen Short Stories and a Novel)*
1967 Los heréticos (Clara : Thirteen Short Stories and a Novel)*
1972 El gato eficaz (novel)
1975 Aquí pasan cosas raras (Strange Things Happen Here)
1977 Como en la guerra (He Who Searches) (novel)
1980 Libro que no muerde (stories)
1982 Cambio de armas (Other Weapons) (stories)
1983 Donde viven las águilas (stories)
1983 Cola de lagartija (The Lizard’s Tail) (novel)
1988 Unas y otras sirenas (One Siren or Another)
1988 The Censors (short stories)
1990 Realidad nacional desde la cama (Bedside Manners) (novel)
1990 Novela negra con argentinos (Black Novel with Argentines) (novel)
1992 Open Door (short stories)
1993 Simetrías (Symmetries) (stories)
1998 Antología personal (stories)
1999 Cuentos completos y uno más (stories)
2001 La Travesía (novel)
2001 Peligrosas Palabras (essays)
2002 Escritura y Secreto (essays)
2002 Los deseos oscuros y los otros (cuadernos de New York) (Dark Desires and the Others) (essays)
2003 El placer rebelde. Antología general (stories)
2004 BREVS. Microrrelatos completos hasta hoy (stories)
2007 Acerca de Dios (o aleja) (essay)
2007 Taller de escritura breve (essay)
2008 Generosos inconvenientes (stories)
2008 Tres por cinco (stories)
2008 Juego de villanos, microrrelatos (stories)
2010 El Mañana (novel)
2011 Cuidado con el tigre (novel)
2012 La máscara sarda, el profundo secreto de Perón (novel)
2014 Entrecruzamientos. Cortázar – Fuentes. (literature)
2014 Diario de máscaras (travel)
2015 Cambio de armas y otros cuentos políticos (stories)
2017 Escrituras (story/essay)

* Clara: Thirteen Short Stories and a Novel is a translation of both Hay que sonreír and Los heréticos