Alicia Steimberg
{{Short description|Argentine novelist (1933–2012)}}
Alicia Steimberg (July 18, 1933 – June 16, 2012) was an Argentine novelist.
Biography
The daughter of Gregorio Steimberg and Luisa Imas, both natives of Argentina of East European (Romanian, Ukrainian and Russian) descent, she was born in Buenos Aires and was educated at the Instituto Nacional del Profesorado. Her father, a teacher, died when she was eight.
She published her first novel Musicians and Watchmakers (Músicos y relojeros) in 1971. This was followed by Madwoman 101 (La loca 101) in 1973. In 1983, she published a collection of short stories Just Like Every Morning (Como todas las mañanas). In 1992, her novel Call Me Magdalena (Cuando digo Magdalena) won the Premio Planeta Biblioteca del Sur prize. Injected with a dose of humour, her work draws from her own life experiences and daily life in urban Argentina.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1OznALRDqsC&pg=PA45 |title=Passion, Memory, and Identity |pages=45–49 |last=Agosín |first=Marjorie |year=1999 |isbn=082632049X}}
Despite a favourable reception from critics, Steimberg found it necessary to supplement her income by translation work and giving literary workshops. She was director of the books section of the Argentine Secretariate of Culture from 1995 to 1997.
Despite her Jewish heritage, she had little direct interaction with the local Jewish community. At times, she compares Judaism unfavourably with Catholicism in her work.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VeB_AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA499 |title=Jewish Writers of Latin America: A Dictionary |pages=499–504 |last=Lockhart |first=Darrell B |year=2012 |isbn=978-1134754205}}
She was married twice: first to Abraham Sokolowicz in 1957 and then to Tito Svidler in 1968. Svidler died of cancer in 1990.
Steimberg died in Buenos Aires at the age of 78 after suffering a heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/103864/argentine-writer-alicia-steimberg-dies |title=Argentine writer Alicia Steimberg dies |newspaper=Buenos Aires Herald |date=June 18, 2012}}
Her brother Oscar is a noted semiologist.{{cite web |url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/steimberg-alicia |title=Alicia Steimberg |publisher=Jewish Women's Archive}}
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Category:Jewish Argentine writers
Category:Argentine people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Category:Argentine people of Russian-Jewish descent
Category:Argentine people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Category:Argentine women novelists
Category:International Writing Program alumni
Category:Writers from Buenos Aires