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Valenzuela, Luisa

BORN: 1938, Buenos Aires, Argentina

NATIONALITY: Argentine

GENRE: Fiction, nonfiction

MAJOR WORKS:
Clara: Thirteen Short Stories and a Novel (1966)
Strange Things Happen Here (1976)
Other Weapons (1982)
Black Novel (with Argentines) (1990)
Bedside Manners (1990)

Overview

Luisa Valenzuela is an Argentine writer of both fiction and journalistic works. She is among her nation's most significant writers, best known for magic realism, a style of writing often associated with Latin American writers Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar, that blends magical and fantastic elements. Valenzuela is also one of the most widely translated female South American writers. Throughout her literary career, Valenzuela has focused on the themes of politics, language, and women. Valenzuela is renowned for her short stories, especially

those collected in Strange Things Happen Here (Aqui pasan cosas raras) (1976) and Other Weapons (Cambio de armas) (1982).

Works in Biographical and Historical Context

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Luisa Valenzuela

Born

in Buenos Aires, Argentina

November 26, 1938

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Women & Gender Studies

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Luisa Valenzuela is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina. Works such as Como en la guerra (1977), Cambio de armas (1982) and Cola de lagartija (1983) combine a powerful critique of dictatorship with an examination of patriarchal forms of social organization and the power structures which inhere in human sexuality and gender relationships.Luisa Valenzuela is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina. Works such as Como en la guerra (1977),

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Valenzuela, Luisa (1938–)

Luisa Valenzuela (b. 26 November 1938), Argentine writer. The daughter of Argentine writer Luisa Mercedes Levinson, Valenzuela was born in Buenos Aires and grew up in Corrientes and Buenos Aires, which provided settings for her later fiction. She began her writing career as a journalist for the newspaper La Nación and published her first short story at age seventeen. Between 1956 and 1961 she lived in France, where she wrote her first novel, which was published in 1966. But it was with the publication of Hay que sonreír (One Has to Smile, 1966) and a collection of short stories, Los heréticos (1967), that she was recognized as a promising young writer. In 1969 she won a Fulbright scholarship to participate in the International Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she wrote El gato eficaz (1972), a novel in which language rather than characters is the central concern. Later, she traveled throughout Mexico and became interested in Mexican indigenous cultures. She used some of these experiences in writing the stories in Donde viven