Gabriela Alemán
{{Short description|Ecuadorian writer}}
{{BLP sources|date=December 2023}}
{{Not to be confused with|Gabriela Alemán (illustrator)}}
{{infobox person
| image = Gabriela Alemán 2019 (cropped).jpg
| birth_date = September 30, 1968
| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| education = University of Cambridge
Andina Simón Bolívar (MA)
Tulane University
| occupation = Writer, educator
| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)
}}
Gabriela Alemán (born September 30, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-born Ecuadorian writer and educator, whose work has been translated into multiple languages.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/gabriela-aleman|title=Gabriela Alemán - Words Without Borders|website=Words Without Borders|access-date=2018-09-26}}
Biography
Born to Ecuadorian parents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she lived in several countries in her youth until she settled in Quito, Ecuador.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
Alemán studied translation at University of Cambridge, received a master's in Latin American Literature at Andina Simón Bolívar (in Ecuador), and obtained a doctorate at Tulane University in New Orleans, U.S..{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}} Also, she was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship in the film, video and radio studies on 2006.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
She was a professional basketball player in Switzerland and Paraguay and worked as waiter, manager, translator, radio scriptwriter, director assistant, editor, proofreader and journalist.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
She has been a professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito and in Tulane.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
= Literary career =
In 1993 she represented Ecuador at Encuentro de Jóvenes Escritores Literatura y Compromiso, that included the participation of Jorge Amado, José Saramago, 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 UNICEF) and on the radio (script for the series Salomé Gutiérrez, former private detective, broadcast by Onda Verde 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. 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
The New York Times mentions Alemán's book Humo in their article, "Fiction Books of 2017: An Ibero-American Selection."{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/es/2017/12/17/los-libros-de-ficcion-de-2017-una-seleccion-iberoamericana/|title=Los libros de ficción de 2017: una selección iberoamericana|trans-title=|language=|first=Jorge|last=Carrión|date=17 December 2017|publisher=|access-date=19 February 2019|via=NYTimes.com}}
In 2015, she was a finalist along with four others for the Gabriel García Márquez Short Story Award, considered one of the most important narrative awards in Spanish.{{cite web|url=https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/cultura/7/gabriela-aleman-finalista-premio-gabriel-garcia-marquez|title=Gabriela Alemán finalista Premio Hispanoamericano de cuento Gabriel García Márquez|trans-title=|language=|first=El|last=Telégrafo|date=27 October 2015|website=El Telégrafo|access-date=19 February 2019}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://tigrepelvar.com/2007/04/28/los-39-mejores-escritores-menores-de-39-anos/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107013125/https://tigrepelvar.com/2007/04/28/los-39-mejores-escritores-menores-de-39-anos/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=November 7, 2016|title=Los 39 mejores ESCRITORES menores de 39 años|trans-title=|language=|author=|date=28 April 2007|website=Tigrepelvar.com|access-date=19 February 2019}}
In 2006, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}
Works
= Works in English =
- Poso Wells, San Francisco : City Lights Publishers, 2018. {{ISBN|9780872867550}} , {{OCLC|1049575983}}{{Cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/literature-is-the-minefield-of-the-imagination-an-interview-with-gabriela-aleman/|title=Literature Is the Minefield of the Imagination: An Interview with Gabriela Alemán - Los Angeles Review of Books|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=2018-09-26|language=en-US}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gabriela-aleman/poso-wells/|title=POSO WELLS by Gabriela Alemán , Dick Cluster {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us}}{{Cite news|url=http://columbiajournal.org/review-poso-wells-by-gabriela-aleman/|title=Review: Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán|last=Goyeneche|first=Teresita|date=2018-08-10|work=Columbia Journal|access-date=2018-09-26|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/september/poso-wells-gabriela-aleman|title=Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán|date=2018-08-08|work=World Literature Today|access-date=2018-09-26|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/yesterdays-papers-an-excerpt-from-poso-wells/|title=Yesterday’s Papers, an excerpt from Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán - BOMB Magazine|website=BombMagazine.org|access-date=2018-09-26}}
- 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) (City Lights, translated by Dick Cluster, 2018)
- Humo, Literatura Random House, Bogotá, 2017
=Theater=
- La acróbata del hambre, 1997
=Essays=
- Cine en construcción: largometrajes ecuatorianos de ficción 1924-2004, 2004
References
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External links
- {{cite web | last=Cluster | first=Dick | title=Literary Citizen of the Andes: Gabriela Alemán and Quito | website=The Paris Review | date=2018-07-30 | url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/30/literary-citizen-of-the-andes-gabriela-aleman-and-quito/ }}
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Category:Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Category:20th-century Ecuadorian women writers
Category:21st-century Ecuadorian women writers
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Tulane University alumni
Category:Ecuadorian women novelists
Category:Ecuadorian women essayists
Category:Ecuadorian women short story writers