Gabriela Bustelo
{{Short description|Spanish author, journalist and translator}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Gabriela Bustelo
| image = Playa Altea 2014.jpg
| caption = Bustelo at Altea, summer of 2014
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|5|18}}
| birth_place = Madrid, Spain
| occupation = Writer, Journalist.
| alma_mater = Complutense University of Madrid
| period = 1996-present
| genre = Dirty realism, Science fiction, Postmodern literature, Roman-a-clef
| movement = Generation X (Spain)
}}
Gabriela Bustelo (Madrid, 1962) is a Spanish author, journalist and translator.
Biography
Included in the 1990 neorealist generation of Spanish novelists, Bustelo made her debut with Veo Veo (Anagrama, 1996), which placed her in the literary Generation XOdartey-Wellington, Dorothy, 'Urban Fictions/Popular Fictions: Gabriela Bustelo's Veo veo and Ismael Grasa's De Madrid al cielo', in "Contemporary Spanish Fiction: Generation X", (Associated University Press), 2008Corey, Rubin, "Mapping a space-character interface in the narratives of Spain's Generation X: Scorn for a lost past in Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo", (University of Iowa), 2013Molinaro, Nina, 'Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo'. In Henseler, Christine; Pope, Randolph D. (eds.). Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture", (Vanderbilt UNiversity Press), 2007 She shares with José Ángel Mañas, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria a sharp literary style influenced by commercial culture — advertising, pop music, film and television.Henseler, Christine, 'The Real World of Big Brother in Veo Veo by Gabriela Bustelo', in "Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age: Generation X Remixed", (Palgrave Macmillan). pp. 132–146. {{ISBN|978-0-2301-0291-0}} Gabriela Bustelo is one of the few Spanish women who have written science fiction.Ketz, Victoria L., 'Biotech, Barcelo, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies in Spanish Science Fiction', in "A Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture", (Vanderbilt University Press), 2021 Her second novel [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316485315_El_planeta_hembra_de_Gabriela_Bustelo_descifrando_una_identidad_poshumana Planeta Hembra] (RBA, 2001), located in New York, is a dystopia that envisaged —almost two decades ago— the underlying conflict between women and men that in the 21st century has become the MeToo Movement as a global battle of the sexes. [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15160134-la-historia-de-siempre-jamas La historia de siempre jamás] (El Andén, 2007) portrays the immorality and shallowness of European political elites. In 1996, she began to write pieces on art and culture for publications such as Vogue and Gala (magazine), having penned political columns for fifteen years in national print media and digital newspapers. She contributed cultural articles to Colombian magazine "Arcadia" (revistaarcadia.com) from 2005 to 2015.{{Cite web |title=The Life & Works of Gabriela Bustelo |url=https://www.classicspanishbooks.com/contemporary-spanish-novels-gabriela-bustelo.html |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.classicspanishbooks.com}}
Translations
Bustelo has translated to Spanish the works of classics such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and well-known contemporaries including Raymond Chandler, Muriel Spark and Margaret Atwood.{{Cite web |title=The Life & Works of Gabriela Bustelo |url=https://www.classicspanishbooks.com/contemporary-spanish-novels-gabriela-bustelo.html |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.classicspanishbooks.com}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite book |first=Victoria L. |last=Ketz |chapter=Biotech, Barcelo, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies in Spanish Science Fiction |title=A Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture |url=https://www.vanderbilt.edu/university-press/book/9780826501288|publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-8265-0129-5 |pages=265–291}}
- {{cite book |first=Corey Michael |last=Rubin |title=Mapping a space-character interface in the narratives of Spain's Generation X: Scorn for a lost past in Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo |url=https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Rats-in-the-city-mapping-a/9983776782902771 |publisher=University of Iowa |year=2013}}
- {{cite book |first=Christine |last=Henseler |chapter=The Real World of Big Brother in Veo Veo by Gabriela Bustelo |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbbFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 |title=Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age: Generation X Remixed |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-2301-0291-0 |pages=132–146}} [http://canal-l.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/resena-de-spanish-fiction-in-digital.html Review in Spanish]
- {{cite book |first=Dorothy |last=Odartey-Wellington |title=Contemporary Spanish Fiction: Generation X |chapter=2 Urban Fictions/Popular Fictions: Gabriela Bustelo's Veo veo and Ismael Grasa's De Madrid al cielo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GUO1WmHi_ywC&pg=PA49 |year=2008 |publisher=Associated University Press |isbn=978-0-87413-008-9 |pages=49–70}}
- {{cite book |first=Candice L. |last=Bosse |title=Becoming and Consumption: The Contemporary Spanish Novel |chapter=4 Veo Veo: Consumption and the Dazzling Diva Image |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTivSez94-cC&pg=PA115 |year=2007 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0-7391-1631-9 |pages=115–152}}
- {{cite book |chapter=12 Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo |first=Nina |last=Molinaro |editor1-first=Christine |editor1-last=Henseler |editor2-first=Randolph D. |editor2-last=Pope |title=Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k3KY1jSAnewC&pg=PA203 |year=2007 |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |isbn=978-0-8265-1565-0 |pages=203–215}}
- {{cite book |first=Christine |last=Henseler |title=Contemporary Spanish Women's Narrative and the Publishing Industry |url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryspan0000hens |url-access=registration |year=2003 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-02831-1 }}
- {{cite book |last=Labanyi |first=Jo |chapter=10 Narrative in culture, 1975–1996 |editor-first=David T. |editor-last=Gies |title=The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-QS8nDeCjEC&pg=PA147 |date=25 February 1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-57429-7 |pages=154–156}}
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