Gabriela Bustelo (Madrid, 1962) is a Spanish author,

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Biography

Included in the 1990 neorealist generation of Spanish novelists, Bustelo made her debut with ''Veo Veo'' (

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, 1996), which placed her in the literary

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She shares with

José Ángel Mañas José Ángel Mañas (Madrid, 22 October 1971) is a Spanish writer. Mañas is often included as a member of the generation of neorealist Spanish writers from the 1990s, along with Juan Gracia, Gabriela Bustelo, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria. Hi ...

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a sharp literary style influenced by commercial culture —

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. Gabriela Bustelo is one of the few Spanish women who have written

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.Ketz, Victoria L., 'Biotech, Barcelo, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies in Spanish Science Fiction', in "A Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture", (Vanderbilt University Press), 2021 Her second novel ''Planeta Hembra'' (RBA, 2001), located in New York, is a

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that envisaged —almost two decades ago— the underlying conflict between women and men that in the 21st century has become the

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Movement as a global battle of the sexes. ''La historia de siempre jamás'' (El Andén, 2007) portrays the immorality and shallowness of European political elites. In 1996 she began to write pieces on art and culture for publications such as

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, having penned political columns for fifteen years in national print media and digital newspapers. She contributed cultural articles to Colombian magazine "Arcadia" (revistaarcadia.com) from 2005 to 2015.

Translations

Bustelo has translated to Spanish the works of classics such as

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; and well-known contemporaries including

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