Liliana heker biography

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  • Liliana Heker is an Argentine novelist and short-story writer who is also responsible for the success of two literary magazines that feature the writings of.

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    Liliana Heker


    Born

    in Buenos Aires, Argentina

    February 09,


    Genre

    Short Stories, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


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    Liliana Heker began her literary career at age 17, mentored by Argentine writer Abelardo Castillo. She was a collaborator in Argentina literary magazine "The Paper Cricket" and founded, along with Castillo, The Golden Bug and The Platypus. She has published several short story books which have been collected in "Cuentos" (Alfaguara). She has also written two novels, "El fin de la historia" and "Zona de clivaje", and a collection of essays called "Las hermanas de Shakespeare".Liliana Heker began her literary career at age 17, mentored by Argentine writer Abelardo Castillo. She was a collaborator in Argentina literary magazine "The Paper Cricket" and founded, along with Castillo, The Golden Bug and The Platypus. She has published several short story books which have been collected in "Cuentos" (Al

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    Scanning the shelves of the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library one day, hungry for good fiction, I ran across Liliana Heker&#;s The Stolen Party. The book is a collection of short stories translated from Spanish by Alberto Manguel. Rarely does it happen that inom make a selection almost at random in a library and end up dazzled. But dazzled I was.

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    Several of the stories in that book were among the most memorable I&#;ve ever read. Heker fryst vatten a master of magical realism, but she has her own take on it. The first story in the book, &#;Georgina Requini: or the Chosen One,&#; telescopes the entire life of a wannabe actress into 30 pages. It&#;s breathtaking, zooming from one phase of the main character&#;s life to the next, in and out of her fanta

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    Liliana Heker

    Argentine writer (born )

    Liliana Heker (born ) is an Argentine writer. She wrote and edited left-wing literary journals during the Dictatorship in the s and s, using veiled critiques as a means of protest and engaging in vigorous debate with exiled writers such as Julio Cortázar.

    She was born in Buenos Aires and her professional writing started at the age of 17 with the support of Abelardo Castillo.

    Books

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    Her books include:

    • Acuario (), Centro Ed. De América Latina: Buenos Aires
    • The Stolen Party ()
    • Zona de clivaje (), Legasa: Buenos Aires
    • El härlig de la historia (), Alfaguara - Suma (paperback ), ISBN&#;
    • Las hermanas de Shakespeare (), Aguilar: Buenos Aires
    • Los Bordes de Lo Real
    • El Partido Rubado
    • Los Que Vieron la zarza′

    References

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    Further reading

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    • Gwendolyn Díaz, Women and Power in Argentine Literature: Stories, Interviews, and Critical Essays, University of Texas Press (paperback ), ISBN&#; - publisher
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