María Cecilia Barbetta
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María Cecilia Barbetta (born 8 July 1972 in Buenos Aires) is a German-language writer. Since 2011 she is a member of the PEN Centre Germany. In 2008, she won the Aspekte-Literaturpreis.
Life
Barbetta studied German as a foreign language in her native Argentina. She came to Berlin in 1996 with a DAAD scholarship.{{Cite web|url=http://www.alumni-portal-deutschland.net/en/alumni/gallery/portrait/dr-mara-cecilia-barbetta/|title=Dr. María Cecilia Barbetta – DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst|last=Austauschdienst|first=DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer|website=www.daad.de|language=en|access-date=26 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327084408/https://www.daad.de/der-daad/unsere-aufgaben/alumniarbeit/alumni-galerie/portraits/en/39667-dr-mar-a-cecilia-barbetta/|archive-date=27 March 2018|url-status=live}} After completing her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 2000, she has been a freelance author (since 2005). In 2007 she was awarded the Alfred Döblin Fellowship by the Academy of Arts, Berlin,{{Cite news|url=http://orf.at/stories/2392367/|title=Alfred-Döblin-Preis geht an Maria Cecilia Barbetta|date=20 May 2017|work=news.ORF.at|access-date=26 March 2018|language=de-DE}} and participated in the author's workshop Prosa of the Literary Colloquium in Berlin. Los Milagros Tailor's Shop was her first novel. She spent the year 2013 at Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2014 she received scholarships from the Berlin Senate and the German Literature Fund Darmstadt. She writes in German and has lived in Berlin since 1996.
Awards
- 2008 Aspekte-Literaturpreis{{cite web | title=María Cecilia Barbetta – Autorenlexikon | website=literaturport.de | url=https://www.literaturport.de/María-Cecilia.Barbetta/ | language=de | access-date=20 November 2020}}
- 2009 Adelbert von Chamisso-Förderpreis{{cite web | title=María Cecilia Barbetta | website=stadtsprachen magazin | url=https://stadtsprachen.de/author/maria-cecilia-barbetta/ | language=de | access-date=20 November 2020}}
- 2017 Alfred Döblin Prize
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- 2011 PEN Centre Germany
Works
- {{cite book | last=Barbetta | first=María Cecilia | title=Änderungsschneiderei Los Milagros : roman | publisher=S. Fischer | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2008 | isbn=978-3-596-18285-5 | oclc=259726437 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Barbetta | first=María Cecilia | publisher=S. Fischer Verlag GmbH | title=Nachtleuchten Roman | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2018 | isbn=978-3-10-397289-4 | oclc=1033642805 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Rothschild | first=Miguel | last2=Barbetta | first2=María Cecilia | last3=Bismarck | first3=Beatrice von |author-link3=Beatrice von Bismarck | last4=Currid | first4=Brian | title=Miguel Rothschild | publisher=Hatje Cantz | publication-place=Ostfildern, Germany | date=2015 | isbn=978-3-7757-4024-1 | oclc=910103377 | language=de}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web | title=Schriftstellerin María Cecilia Barbetta | website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur | date=9 August 2017 | url=http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schriftstellerin-maria-cecilia-barbetta-phantastische.970.de.html?dram:article_id=393039 | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Deutschlandfunk Kultur | 2017}} | access-date=26 March 2018}}
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Category:Writers from Buenos Aires
Category:Argentine emigrants to Germany
Category:German women novelists
Category:21st-century German novelists