Biography of luisa valenzuela

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Luisa Valenzuela born is an Argentine writer of both fiction and journalistic works. Valenzuela is also one of the most widely translated female South American writers. As Naomi Lindstrom wrote in World Literature Today, Valenzuela "has created numerous narratives in which authoritarian rule in society is mirrored by patriarchal domination in relations between men and women.

Valenzuela, an insatiable reader since childhood, attended a British school in her youth. Given her parents' place in society and the family's connections with academics, Valenzuela was able to meet writers such as as Jorge Luis Borges , Ernesto Sabato , and Peyrou in her youth. Her parents were a formative influence: "As a child I thought writing was dreary, drab, but they loved it," recalled Valenzuela in Americas.

That impressed me that writing was more lively than one would think. Valenzuela's first journalistic work appeared in magazines including Esto Es, Atlantida, Quince Abriles, and El Hogar while she was still in her teens. Her first short story , "Ese Canto," was published in Valenzuela also worked for a time at the Biblioteca Nacional, where Borges was the library's director.

She went on to earn a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Buenos Aires.