Leila Guerriero (born 17 February 1967) is an Argentine journalist and writer.

Career

Leila Guerriero graduated from the Colegio Nacional Normal Superior de Junín. She is of

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and

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descent. She studied tourism, a field in which she did not end up working. Her empirical start in journalism was in 1992 when she got her first job as editor at ''Página/30'', a monthly magazine of the newspaper '' Página/12''. After sending a story entitled "Kilómetro cero" to the paper's reception desk, she received, four days later, a call from the then director

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. Since then her works have appeared in various media such as ''

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'' and ''

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'' from Argentina, ''

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'' and '' Vanity Fair'' from Spain, '' El Malpensante'' and ''

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'' from Colombia, and ' and ''

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'' from Chile. In addition, she is the Latin America editor for the Mexican magazine ''

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''. In 2010 she won the ninth edition of the from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) in the text category, for her chronicle "El rastro en los huesos", in which she recounts the work carried out by the

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that identifies the remains of missing persons from the

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. In 2014 she received a

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Diploma of Merit in the Chronicles and Testimonies category.

Works

* ''Los suicidas del fin del mundo'', chronicle of a Patagonian town, Tusquets, 2005, * ''Frutos extraños'', collected chronicles 2001–2008,

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, 2009, * ''Los malditos'', editor, Ediciones UDP, 2011 * ''Plano americano'', 21 profiles of artists originally published in diverse media, Ediciones UDP, 2013, * ''Una historia sencilla'',

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, 2013, * ''Zona de obras'', Anagrama, 2015, * ''Cuba en la encrucijada: 12 perspectivas sobre la continuidad y el cambio en la habana y en todo el país'', editor,

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, 2018,

Awards

* 2010 * 2014

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guerriero, Leila Argentine people of Syrian descent Argentine people of German descent 1967 births 20th-century Argentine women writers 20th-century Argentine writers 21st-century Argentine women writers 21st-century Argentine writers Argentine journalists Argentine women journalists Living people People from Junín, Buenos Aires