Alicia Plante
{{Short description|Argentine writer}}
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| birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| occupation = Writer, translator, psychologist
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| awards = Premio Azorín (1990)
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Alicia Susana Plante (born 1939) is an Argentine writer, translator, and psychologist, considered one of the main figures of Argentine noir fiction.{{Cite news |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/325808-alicia-plante-habla-de-su-ultimo-libro-el-menor |title=Alicia Plante habla de su último libro: El menor |trans-title=Alicia Plante Talks About Her Latest Book: El menor |first=Daniel |last=Gigena |newspaper=Página 12 |language=es |date=2021-02-26 |access-date=2022-09-07}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.infobae.com/cultura/2021/05/08/alicia-plante-lo-que-distingue-a-la-novela-negra-no-es-la-sangre-sino-la-critica-al-entorno/ |title=Alicia Plante: 'Lo que distingue a la novela negra no es la sangre sino la crítica al entorno' |trans-title=Alicia Plante: 'What Distinguishes the Noir Novel is Not the Blood But the Criticism of the Setting' |first=Eva |last=Marabotto |newspaper=Infobae |language=es |date=2021-05-08 |access-date=2022-09-07}}
Biography
Alicia Plante was born Buenos Aires in 1939.{{Cite news |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1990/12/01/cultura/660006008_850215.html |title=Una escritora argentina gana el Premio Azorín de novela |trans-title=An Argentine Writer Wins the Azorín Novel Award |first=Menchu |last=Illan |newspaper=El País |location=Alicante |language=es |date=1990-11-30 |access-date=2022-09-07}} The daughter of an accountant, she began writing at the age of ten.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/las12/13-1242-2004-06-04.html |title=Tiempo de cosecha |trans-title=Harvest Time |first=Claudio |last=Zeiger |magazine=Página 12 Las12 |language=es |date=2004-06-04 |access-date=2022-09-07}} In 1970, she published her first book, the poetry collection Asumiendo mi alma.{{Cite news |url=https://www.ambito.com/espectaculos/libros/hacer-novela-negra-es-una-forma-luchar-lo-que-me-indigna-n5018138 |title='Hacer novela negra es una forma de luchar con lo que me indigna' |trans-title='Making Noir Novels is a Way of Fighting Against What Makes Me Angry' |first=Máximo |last=Soto |newspaper=Ámbito Financiero |language=es |date=2019-02-27 |access-date=2022-09-07}} After this, she was invited by Harvard University to record unpublished poems and, between 1976 and 1980, she studied psychology. Plante published her first novel, Un aire de familia, in 1990, which won the Premio Azorín, and was published in Argentina by Letra Buena in 1992. That same year, she began to direct literary workshops on narrative and poetry. In 2003, she published the lesbian novel El círculo imperfecto.
After Carmen Balcells became her literary agent, Plante published the "Water Trilogy" – Una mancha más (2011), Fuera de temporada (2013), and Verde oscuro (2014).{{Cite web |url=https://www.eternacadencia.com.ar/blog/contenidos-originales/entrevistas/item/el-unico-problema-filosofico.html |title=El único problema filosófico |trans-title=The Only Philosophical Problem |first=Patricio |last=Zunini |publisher=Eterna Cadencia |language=es |date=2016-04-21 |access-date=2022-09-07}} In 2016, she published her sixth novel, La sombra del otro, and two years later, in 2018, the crime novel Mala leche. In 2020, she published her eighth novel, El menor.
In addition to her work as a writer, Plante has translated literary and scientific texts, and contributed to Página 12{{'s}} cultural supplement Radar. Her work has been translated into French and Italian.{{Cite magazine |url=https://revista.poemame.com/2017/12/27/alicia-plante-el-oficio-de-escribir-es-como-un-musculo-que-se-fortalece-con-el-uso-con-la-exigencia/ |title=13 preguntas y una poeta, Alicia Plante: 'El oficio de escribir es como un músculo que se fortalece con el uso, con la exigencia' |trans-title=13 Questions and a Poet, Alicia Plante: 'The Craft of Writing is Like a Muscle That is Strengthened With Use, With the Demand' |first=José Luis |last=Regojo |magazine=Poémame |language=es |date=2017-12-27 |access-date=2022-09-07}}
Awards and recognition
In 1990, her novel Un aire de familia (entered under the name Tras el verde) won the Premio Azorín, presented by the provincial government of Alicante and the publishing house Planeta. She was the first non-Spaniard to achieve this honor.
Publications
=Novels=
- 1990: Un aire de familia
- 2003: El círculo imperfecto
- 2011: Una mancha más
- 2013: Fuera de temporada
- 2014: Verde oscuro
- 2016: La sombra del otro
- 2018: Mala leche
- 2020: El menor
=Poetry=
- 1970: Asumiendo mi alma
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Category:21st-century Argentine novelists
Category:Argentine psychologists
Category:Argentine women psychologists
Category:Argentine crime fiction writers
Category:21st-century Argentine women writers
Category:Crime fiction writers