Iosi Havilio (born 1974 in
Buenos Aires) 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 ...
author. He's the son of Yugoslav-Argentine actor Harry Havilio.
Life and career
His first novel, ''Open Door'' was published in Buenos Aires in 2006. The novel tells the story of a young woman that, after losing her job in Buenos Aires, finds herself drifting towards a very different pace of life in the countryside. ''Open Door'' was highly praised by influential writers and critics like
Rodolfo Fogwill and
Beatriz Sarlo
Beatriz Sarlo (born 1942) is an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was also founding editor of the cultural journal '' Punto de Vista'' ("Point of View"). She became an Order of Cultural Merit laureate in 2009.
Biography
Beatriz Sarlo ...
. Sarlo commented : ‘''Open Door'' really surprised me, it doesn’t obey any of the laws of reading, it feels like it sprang out of nowhere.’.
In 2009, ''Open Door'' was published in Spain by Caballo de Troya.
In 2011
''Open Door''was translated into English by Beth Fowler and published in the United Kingdom by the
And Other Stories
And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...
.
Havilio took part in the anthology ''Buenos Aires/Escala 1:1'' (Entropía, 2008) and the Spanish edition of ''La Joven Guardia'' (Belacqua, 2009). IN 2010, Havilio published his second work, ''Estocolmo''. The main character of ''Estocolmo'' is a gay
Chilean man returning to his home country from 30 years of exile in Sweden after the
1973 coup d'état.
And Other Stories published the English translation of Havilio's third novel
''Paradises'' in 2013 and his fifth,
Petite Fleur'' in 2017.
Work
* ''Opendoor'' (Entropía, 2006).
* ''Estocolmo'' (Random House Mondadori, 2010).
* ''Paraísos'' (Random House Mondadori, 2012).
* ''La serenidad'' (Entropía, 2014).
* ''Pequeña Flor'' (Random House Mondadori, 2015).
* ''Jacki, la internet profunda'' (Socios Fundadores, 2018).
* ''Vuelta y vuelta'' (Random House Mondadori, 2019).
Work in translation
''Open Door''English trans. Beth Fowler (London:
And Other Stories
And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...
, 2011).
''Paradises''English trans. Beth Fowler (London:
And Other Stories
And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...
, 2013). .
* ''Opendoor'' Italian trans. Barca Vincenzo (Roma: Caravan Edizioni, 2015). .
''Petite Fleur''English trans. Lorna Scott Fox (London:
And Other Stories
And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...
, 2017). .
* ''Petite fleur (jamais ne meurt)'' French trans. Margot Nguyen-Béraud (Editions Denoël, 2017). .
References
External links
Iosi Havilio in ''And Other Stories''Blog about ''Estocolmo''(in Spanish)
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Living people
1974 births
Argentine male novelists
Writers from Buenos Aires
Argentine people of Serbian descent
21st-century male writers
21st-century Argentine novelists