Liliana Bodoc (21 July 1958 – 6 February 2018) was an Argentinian writer of fantasy.
Life
Liliana Bodoc was born in
Santa Fe in 1958. When she was five years old, her family moved to
Mendoza for work. There, she studied at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature.
Raised as an atheist, she converted to Islam in 1994.
Bodoc authored ''
La Saga de los Confines
Saga of the Borderlands'' (Spanish: La Saga de los Confines)'' is a collection of three fantasy novels, written by Argentine writer Liliana Bodoc. The first book, ''The Days of the Deer'', was published in 2000, the second one ''The Days of Sha ...
'', a series of three fantasy novels that were originally published in 2000 in Spanish.
[ The first of these books was translated into English as ''The Days of the Deer''. Her work is very popular in Latin America and her style was admired by ]Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the '' Earthsea'' fantasy series. She was ...
(who died less than a month before Bodoc).The Days of the Deer
fantasybookreview.co.uk; accessed 9 February 2018.
References
1958 births
2018 deaths
Argentine women novelists
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
People from Santa Fe Province
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
{{Argentina-writer-stub