Maitena Burundarena ( Buenos Aires, May 19, 1962), better known as Maitena, is an

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Early works

Maitena drew erotic strips for several European publications, for example ''Makoki'', in Barcelona. In Argentina, she worked in '' Sex Humor'', ''

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'', ', and '. She also worked as a graphic illustrator for Argentine magazines and newspapers, as well as publishers specialized in school texts. She was also a TV screenwriter, restaurateur and bar owner. Her first strip, ''Flo'', was published in ', a Buenos Aires newspaper. Her work was compiled in a book called ''Y en este rincón, las mujeres''.

''Mujeres Alteradas''

In 1993, ''

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'' -a leading Argentine women's magazine- approached her to do a weekly humor page. Such was the origin of ''Mujeres Alteradas'' ("Women on the Edge"), a comic strip now published widely throughout the world. In 1999, Mujeres Alteradas was 'translated' from

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to European Spanish and started appearing in ''El País Semanal'', the Sunday edition of ''

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'', from Madrid. ''Mujeres Alteradas'' has been translated into several languages. The strips have been collected into five books published by Lumen in Spain and Sudamericana, in Argentina. ''Mujeres Alteradas'' has sold 150,000 books just in Argentina.

''Superadas''

Between 1998 and 2003, Maitena also published a daily comic panel in '' La Nación''´s humor section, under the name ''Superadas''. This strip is currently published in several Argentine newspapers such as '' La Voz del Interior'' ( Córdoba) and ''Los Andes'' ( Mendoza). The strip is also published in several other international newspapers. Towards the end of 2002, selected strips were published as a book named ''Superadas 1''. In June 2003, Maitena began to publish the Sunday strip ''Curvas peligrosas'' in ''La Nación''.

A General Feature of Maitena's Work

Unlike many fellow Argentine humourists (such as Quino in Mafalda,

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, Roberto Fontanarrosa or ), who rely on their characters' circumstances, Maitena focuses on the inner feelings of the female world.

Personal life

She is of Basque (''maitena'' is Basque for "the most beloved") and Polish ancestry. Her father, , was a Basque-stock conservative academician, the last

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of the Argentine dictatorship of the 1980s (he was previously chancellor of the National Technological University). Her mother was an architect with Polish ancestry.''Más allá del género: Acerca del mundo de Maitena Burundarena''
by Héctor D. Fernández L’Hoeste Maitena lives in Argentina. She is married and has three sons.

Published works

*''Women on the Edge 1'' *''Women on the Edge 2'' *''Women on the Edge 3'' *''Women on the Edge 4'' *''Women on the Edge 5'' *''Curvas Peligrosas 1'' *''Curvas Peligrosas 2'' *''Superadas 1'' *''Superadas 2'' *''Superadas 3''

Notes

External links

Burundarena, Maitena
at the Spanish-language Auñamendi Encyclopedia.
Interview
for ''EuskoNews & Media'' (Nº 309 - 2005/07/15-22) by Julia López. Spanish language with

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