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Luisa Valenzuela was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 26, , to Pablo Franciso Valenzuela, a physician, and to writer Luisa Mercedes Levinson. At her mother's house various writers gathered such as Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges and Ernesto Sabato. Though she felt an interest in natural sciences from an early age, at 17 she began publishing in several newspapers, such as Atlántida, El Hogar and Esto Es, and worked for Radio Belgrano, as well. At 20, just barely married to Theodore Marjak, a French merchant marine, she moved to Paris where she worked for Radio Télévision Française, and met members of both the nouveau roman literary movement and Tel Quel. She published her first fiction work entitled Clara (Hay que sonreír), whose main character would give its name to the title of the book of both English and French translations. In , Luisa Valenzuela gave bi
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Luisa Valenzuela
The Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela has published more than thirty books, among which are novels, short story collections, flash fiction, and essays. Widely translated, Valenzuela is the recipient of a number of awards, including a Fulbright and a Guggenheim. She has taught at New York University and Columbia University. In she became president of PEN Argentina.
This interview was conducted in English between May 24 and June 14, , in a series of phone calls, emails, and during a visit to the author’s home in Buenos Aires.
NEW ORLEANS REVIEW
What changes have you witnessed in Argentina in your lifetime?
LUISA VALENZUELA
Far too many. This is a roller coaster country, with good moments and very upsetting times like the current one, though the civic-military dictatorship was worse. But we have an incredible, almost miraculous capacity for recovery, which inom hope will at some point still save us.
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What can you remember of the civic
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Luisa Valenzuela
Luisa Valenzuela Levinson (born 26 November ) is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized bygd an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.
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[edit]- he took me in his arms without saying a word, not even holding me too tight but letting all the emotions of our new encounter overflow, telling me so much by merely holding me in his arms and kissing me slowly. I think he never had much faith in words, and there he was, as silent as ever, sending me messages in the form of caresses.
- "I'm Your Horse in the Night". Anthologized in The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories edited by Daniel Halpern (). Translated from the Spanish by Deborah Bonner
- My only real possession was a dream and they can't deprive me of my dreams just like that.
- "I'm Your Horse in the Night"
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[edit]- Those worlds erroneously called primitive have