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Gabriela Alemán (born September 30, 1968, in
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) is a Brazilian-born Ecuadorian writer and educator, whose work has been translated into multiple languages.


Biography

Born to Ecuadorian parents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she lived in several countries in her youth until she settled in Quito, Ecuador. Alemán studied translation at
University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...
, received a master's in Latin American Literature at Andina Simón Bolívar (in Ecuador), and obtained a doctorate at
Tulane University The Tulane University of Louisiana (commonly referred to as Tulane University) is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by a cohort of medical doctors, it b ...
in New Orleans, U.S.. Also, she was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship in the film, video and radio studies on 2006. She was a professional basketball player in Switzerland and Paraguay and worked as waiter, manager, translator, radio scriptwriter, director assistant, editor, proofreader and journalist. She has been a professor at
Universidad San Francisco de Quito Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (informally Universidad San Francisco, or simply USFQ) is a liberal-arts, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first li ...
and in Tulane.


Literary career

In 1993 she represented Ecuador at Encuentro de Jóvenes Escritores Literatura y Compromiso, that included the participation of
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, Juan José Arreola, Wole Soyinka, Ana Matute, and others. In 2014 Alemán won the first place CIESPAL de Crónica award, for her article "Los limones del huerto de Elisabeth", and the Joaquín Gallegos Lara award, for her book of stories "La Muerte silba un blues" in 2014. The author was a finalist for the Premio Hispanoamericano del Cuento Gabriel García Márquez in 2015, together with four other writers from Latin America. The award is known as one of the most important narrative awards in Spanish and 136 books published in 2014 were nominated and authors from 19 countries participated. In 2003 she released her first novel, ''Body Time'', under the Planeta Editorial. She also cultivates the essay and the chronicle; she has ventured into dramaturgy (screenwriter of Puertas adentro for
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) and on the radio (script for the series Salomé Gutiérrez, former private detective, broadcast by
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in Madrid and by Radio La Luna in Quito). Her novel ''Smoke'', a story set told in Paraguay, in which the characters are real, forgotten in history after the dictatorship of
Alfredo Stroessner Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (; 3 November 1912 – 16 August 2006) was a Paraguayan politician, army general and Military dictatorship, military dictator who ruled as the 42nd president of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow in 19 ...
. The novel focuses on power, politics and its consequences in society, was released in 2017.. After the publication of ''Poso Wells'', her second novel, in its English edition by City Lights, Alemán's work has received attention in the main cultural magazines of the United States: ''The Paris Review'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' have published commentaries and interviews about the novel.


Honors

''
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'' mentions Alemán's book ''Humo'' in their article, "Fiction Books of 2017: An Ibero-American Selection." In 2015, she was a finalist along with four others for the
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, considered one of the most important narrative awards in Spanish. She was selected by the Hay Festival and Bogotá Capital Mundial del Libro as one of the most important 39 Latin-American writers under the age of 39 in 2007. In 2006, she received a
Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
for her work.


Works


Works in English

* ''Poso Wells'', San Francisco : City Lights Publishers, 2018. , *''Family Album: Stories'' (City Lights Publishers, 2022) ISBN 9780872868823


Stories

* ''En el país rosado'', Exlibris, 1994 * ''Maldito corazón'', El Conejo, 1996 * ''Zoom'', Eskeletra, 1997 * ''Fuga permanente'', Euterpe, 2001 (Eskeletra, 2002) * ''Álbum de familia'', ''Álbum de familia,'' Estruendomudo, Lima, 2010 (Panamericana, 2011; Cadáver Exquisito, 2012) (City Lights, translated by Dick Cluster & Mary Ellen Fieweger) * ''La muerte silba un blues'', Literatura Random House, 2014


Novels

* ''Body time'', Planeta, 2003 * ''Poso Wells'', Eskeletra, 2007 (Aristas Martínez, 2012) (
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, translated by Dick Cluster, 2018) * ''Humo'',
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, Bogotá, 2017


Theater

* ''La acróbata del hambre'', 1997


Essays

* ''Cine en construcción: largometrajes ecuatorianos de ficción 1924-2004'', 2004


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aleman, Gabriela 1968 births Living people Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city) 20th-century Ecuadorian women writers 21st-century Ecuadorian women writers Alumni of the University of Cambridge Tulane University alumni Ecuadorian novelists Ecuadorian women novelists Ecuadorian women essayists Ecuadorian women short story writers Ecuadorian dramatists and playwrights Ecuadorian women dramatists and playwrights