Eloísa Cartonera is an
Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
cooperative publishing business of designers and writers, which publishes hand made books with extraordinary designs at a literary quality. It is the pioneer of the
Cartonera
Cartonera is a social, political and artistic publishing movement that began in Argentina in 2003 and has since spread to countries throughout Latin America and, more recently, to Europe and Africa. The founders, Washington Cucurto, Javier Baril ...
movement.
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Background
The initiative for Eloísa Cartonera was taken in 2001 when the Argentine economy was in crisis and people went on the streets to earn money. Among them were the so-called cartoneros
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, translated ''cardboard people'', who worked on the streets to collect paper and cardboard as a way of living. In these years the culture sector found itself in a deep crisis, because books and artifacts were sold in reduced quantities.Washington Cucurto
Santiago Vega (born in 1973 in Quilmes, Provincia de Buenos Aires), better known as Washington Cucurto, is an Argentinian writer of fiction, prose and poetry. He is the self-proclaimed creator of ''realismo atolondrado'' ('headlong realism'). Hi ...
and plastic artists Javier Barilaro and Fernanda Laguna
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started making art books made from waste cardboard. Out of solidarity with the employed, the objective of the making of art books was changed in 2003 to making literature accessible for anyone.Latin America
Latin America or
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n writers have donated novels, stage plays and poems, with the result that ten years after its foundation more than 200 titles have been published. Examples are ''La casa de cartón'' (''The Cardboard House'') of Martín Adán, ''El pianista'' (''The pianist'') of Ricardo Piglia
Ricardo Piglia (November 24, 1941 in Adrogué, Argentina – January 6, 2017 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.
Biography
Born in Adrogué, Piglia ...
, ''El todo que surca la Nada'' (''The Everything that Cuts the Nothing'') of César Aira
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and the bilingual volume of verses of Haroldo de Campos.paperback
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, whilst the ''cartoneros'' are offered a better price for the cardboard. Eloísa Cartonera has been the example for more than sixty ''cardboard publishers'' in Latin America and one in Mozambique
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.
Recognition
In 2012 Eloísa Cartonera was rewarded with the Principal Award of the Dutch Prince Claus Awards
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''for generation beauty, intellectual incentives and income for many in a context of financial crisis and poverty''.
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Culture of Argentina
Mass media in Argentina
Publishing companies of Argentina
Mass media in Buenos Aires
Cooperatives in Argentina
Argentine companies established in 2001