www.typa.org.ar 1 F world. Atthesame time,wedecidedtoconcentrate oursupporton publishing aplaceintheinternational many otherswho already earned contemporary writerslikeCésar Aira,MartínKohan,AlanPaulsand out theclassicsofArgentineliterature, aswellverygood into anotherlanguage.Ofcourse, thisrequirement forced ustoleave literary qualitythat,untiltoday, havenotbeentranslated from Spanish Kazumi Stahl.Theirtaskwas to choosethirtybooksofunquestionable Silvia Hopenhayn andPedro Rey,journalists andthewriterAnna members were theacademicsSylviaSaíttaandMartínPrieto, ) wasinchargeoftheselection.Thecommittee’s A committeeofexperts(and,aboveall,great readers ofcontemporary translated intootherlanguages. TyPA Catalogue a newtoolwhich,wehope,willbeasusefultheprevious ones: a Translation Subsidy To continuewiththeseactions,inAprilweawarded thecountry’s first Amsterdam… bookstores inParis,Berlin,Rome,London,SaoPaulo,NewYork, publishing ontheirown.Today, manyArgentinebookscanbefoundin colleagues anddiscovered astoundingbookswhichthey’re now visited BuenosAires, establishedfirst-handcontactwiththeirlocal en BuenosAires special programme forpublishers(the Argentine literature betterknownaround theworld.Through our or sixyearsnow, FundaciónTyPA hasbeenworkingtomake ) sixtyprofessionals from manydifferent countries have with thirtyoutstandingbooksthathaven’t yetbeen for Argentineauthors.Andnowweare introducing Semana TyPA deEditores rsdn Programme Director GabrielaAdamo arts. Formore information,pleasevisit: FUNDACION TyPA also runsprogrammes intheareas offilm,heritageandvisual President Américo Castilla forward toseeingmany ofthesetextssoonavailableinotherlanguages. reading ourcatalogueand,aboveall, thechosenbooks.Andwelook the authors,we’llbehappyto serve asfacilitators.We hopeyouenjoy and publishers.Inthosecaseswhere the rightsare handleddirectly by At theendofcatalogueyou’llfindcontactinformation foragents literature overthelasttenyears. presenting awide,precise andyetrepresentative panoramaofArgentine books,butsimplythosetheyconsidered fundamentalto “international” own tongue.Therefore, thecommitteedidn’t trytointroduce you, theonesthatmoveyoutopointofwantingseethem inyour exists; eachofyoumustindependentlychoosethetextsthat interest most sophisticatedreaders. We don’t believeasingle“translationcriteria” chronicle; narrationsthatlook “simple”andothersthatchallengeeventhe short story(thegreat genre oftheRíodelaPlata),autobiography, the ones; novelswrittenintheclassicaltraditionandothersthatplaywith housesandothers bysmall,independent titles publishedbyinternational who havewrittenjustonebookandotherswithawell-establishedœuvre; Beyond theseboundaries,criteriawere quiteflexible:you’llfindauthors real encouragementfortheirfurtherwritingandcreativity. catalogue andthepossibletranslationsoftheirbooksmayworkasa authors whoare stillproducing newtexts,sothattheirinclusioninthis www.typa.org.ar Barbecue

Oscar Taborda When he published his book 40 Watts, Taborda was 154 pages seen to be in the tradition of the “strange Argentineans” Editorial Municipal de Rosario, 1996 like Copi and Lamborghini. With Barbecue he emerges as a solid storyteller, able to sustain the tension from the beginning to the end of this awe-inspiring novel about

evil. He involves the reader in a tale of travels, dreams, Josefina Darriba madness and death, that starts when the narrator drives away on a long weekend with friends from Oscar Taborda was born in Rosario another time. While back in , he leaves a in 1959. A poet and narrator, he writes neurotic wife and their eight-month-old baby… for Diario de Poesía. He has published poems in collective volumes and on

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Other works by the author: 40 watts (1993)

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2 Oscar Taborda Green Hands

Matías Serra Bradford Seven days, seven houses. From one Tuesday to the 173 pages next, the voice of Nieves, the gardener, goes through Norma, 2004 the gardens he tends like chapters of a story. Centipedes, fences, laurels, hoes, chinese roses, mark the difference between time and work. The gardener draws a zone and scatters his thoughts while he rakes together the leaves that will be covered by memory. Years later, a couple travels through Europe. The man’s Matías Serra Bradford was born in handwriting runs through copy-books. A different Buenos Aires in 1969. He writes for continent, another age, the company of a woman. This different magazines and newspapers, novel asks for attention in order to give it all: clues, and works as a translator. www.typa.org.ar promises, travels and detours with a strange, surprising sense of humour. It reveals in Matías Serra Bradford a dazzling writer, able to find in the smallest things the Other works by the author: essence of great literature. Fagans. El viaje y los viajes (1996) Studio (1998) Diarios y miniaturas (1990)

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3 Matías Serra Bradford The Song of the Cities

Matilde Sánchez From Alicante to La Habana, passing through Ushuaia, 287 pages Berlin and the Auschwitz concentration camp, The Seix Barral, 1999 Song of the Cities creates a particular map set on the frontier of fiction. It is, at one and the same time, a travelogue and a coming-of-age novel. Each narration is closed in itself, but the reader can trace a sensibility, can read the book as the biography of a voice : that of Sebastián Freire the narrator who’s away from home. Matilde Sánchez was born in 1958. A It is, without doubts, an intimate song: the author journalist, researcher and writer, for recreates the incidental music of her walks and runs, many years she directed the cultural the film she lived while she was somewhere else. To supplement of Clarín newspaper. She www.typa.org.ar travel is to live in 24 photograms per second. received distinctions like the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Knight- Wallace Fellowship of Michigan University.

Other works by the author: La ingratitud (1990) El Dock (1993) El desperdicio (2008)

Foreign Rights: with the author 4 Matilde Sánchez Marriage War

Edgardo Russo “Marriage War is an exceptional book for its subtle 208 pages observations and unsettling descriptions, for the Adriana Hidalgo, 2000 precision of its language and its desolated irony. This book touches the heart, but does not

overwhelm the reader, who is grateful for that. A Pablo Hernández lot of anguish runs through the pages, but a pervasive humour underlines the happiness of Edgardo Russo was born in Santa Fe being able to tell the story. I believe that Russo is in 1949. Poet, essayist and storyteller, essentially a poet; maybe that’s why he won the Premio Fondo Nacional de sustains the delicate architecture, the sordid las Artes (1987). He directed stories that cross their paths in this wary country.” Acomodador, a movie based on a short story by Felisberto Hernández. www.typa.org.ar - Isidoro Blaisten

Other works by the author: Poesía y vida. Sobre un panfleto de Gombrowicz (1988) Reconstrucción del hecho (1987) Exvotos (1991) La historia de Tía Vicenta (1993)

Foreign Rights: Adriana Hidalgo Edi- tora/ Letras Argentinas 5 Edgardo Russo Edgardo I’d Love it if You’d Like Me

Dalia Rosetti A surfer and her ex girlfriend go to see a surfing 174 pages tournament held on the South Atlantic coast. They Mansalva, 2006 are looking for new adventures: seagulls, water, sand and sun-lotions; sex among women, freedom and . Dalia Rosetti follows the best tracks set by Copi

and César Aira and surprises with the originality of Lulú Jankilevich her writing. A novel of love and dreams, different, Dalia Rosetti (Fernanda Laguna) avant-garde, total. was born in Buenos Aires in 1972. She is an artist, writer, poet and curator. Together with Javier Barilaro and

www.typa.org.ar Washington Cucurto, she created the Eloísa Cartonera publishing house.

Other works by the author: Sueños y pesadillas (2003) Durazno reverdeciente (2003)

6 Foreign Rights: Mansalva Dalia Rosetti The Interpreter

Néstor Ponce With The Interpreter we enter the mysterious universe of 284 pages 1870’s Buenos Aires, dominated by chaos, death and Beatriz Viterbo, 1998 love. Is this an historical novel? A love story? Ponce’s writing plays with those definitions and seduces us with a barroque, obsessive style, which doesn’t exclude Gonzalo Mainoldi humour, poetry or testimony. Néstor Ponce was born in 1955. With One day, the French woman Aude d’Alençon arrives at The Interpreter he won the prize Fondo Buenos Aires, where she has been invited by an old Nacional de las Artes (1998) and was former judge. He needs the services of an interpreter. finalist of the Premio Planeta (1999). He currently teaches at Université de The meeting of these characters happens in a city Rennes II and is an editorial director at assaulted by death –caused by yellow fever– and Editions du Temps (Nantes). www.typa.org.ar impotence. The interpreter becomes the anguished witness of these crossed destinies. Immigrants, politicians, black servants and enigmatic hairdressers give life to a period in history that, interestingly, can Other works by the author: easily be related to present-day Argentina. Novels: La bestia de las diagonales (1999) Essays: Diagonales del género. Estudios sobre el policial argentino (2001) Argentine crise et utopies (2001)

7 Foreign Rights: with the author Néstor Ponce Ireland Square

Eduardo Muslip “I never knew what she was doing at Ireland Square. 144 pages They told me about the accident over the phone. On El cuenco de plata, 2005 three o’clock in the afternoon, Helena was walking down Donato Álvarez Street, right in front of Ireland Square; a bus lost control, got on the sidewalk and smashed her against a wall.” The tragic death of his wife forces the narrator to enter Pablo Hernández an unknown territory: the new Buenos Aires without Helena. This territory is drawn through a complex game Eduardo Muslip was born in Buenos Aires in 1965. He currently lives in the of references to maps, Greek myths, Astronomy, United States. flooded avenues, pornmovie locations… Like Felisberto www.typa.org.ar Hernández or Nathanael West, Muslip hides the dramatic quality of events within the attention he gives Other works by the author: to minimal details. In Ireland Square the reader will find Novels: pain without pathos, a strange sense of humour and a Hojas de la noche (1996) deeply original look at urban feelings and sceneries. Fondo negro: los Lugones (1997) Short Stories: Examen de residencia (2000) La vida perdurable (2004)

Foreign Rights: El cuenco de plata 8 Eduardo Muslip Eduardo Melincué

María Cecilia Muruaga The dead man’s children, their mother, her maid and, of 156 pages course, the dead man before he dies: everybody tells Editorial Municipal de Rosario, 2004 pieces of a story that covers more than thirty years and that has dead bodies at the beginning, the middle and the end. However, more than a story of death, this is a Luciano Ominetti story of love. Of the cloudy love of a father for his children; the pious love of a daughter for her father; the transparent love between two friends. María Cecilia Muruaga was born in The attractive raw material that makes up this book is 1963. She is a Literature professor at enhanced by the author’s reflexive and mature prose – the Universidad de Rosario. With this absolutely surprising in a first novel. It’s her talent for a novel she was awarded the first prize in www.typa.org.ar fine narration that makes the contradictory feelings of the Concurso Manuel Musto 2004. the characters in Melincué invade and unsettle the reader.

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9 María Cecilia Muruaga I’ve Never Promissed You Eternity

Tununa Mercado It’s 1940, the nazis advance through Paris. The evacuation 360 pages is desperate: people walking, thousands of vehicles. A Planeta, 2005 woman searches for her husband and, later, for their small child. In that pilgrimage, by chance, she finds an old friend, Walter Benjamin, who is also trying to cross the border to Spain. Both of them, German refugees, jews and Alejandra López homeless, had met in Paris. Were friendship, love, Tununa Mercado was born in 1939 in Córdoba. She received the prize Casa intellectual conversation possible in a Europe that was de las Américas (1969), the expulsing, deporting and exterminating? I’ve Never Guggenheim Fellowship (1998) and the Promissed You Eternity is a real story, unleashed by a war Konex Diploma al Mérito (2004). that carries the characters from Berlin to Paris, from Spain www.typa.org.ar to Jerusalem, and that ends in today’s Mexico. Put Other works by the author: together with the help of testimonies, diaries and letters of Stories: Celebrar a la mujer como a una pascua the protagonists, as well as the searching experience of (1967) the narrator herself, this novel is astonishing and powerful. Canon de alcoba (1988) Novels: En estado de memoria (1990) La madriguera (1996) Essays: La letra de lo mínimo (1994) Narrar después (2003)

10 Foreign Rights: Planeta Tununa Mercado Tununa Gaijin

Maximiliano Matayoshi Gaijin: someone from outside, stranger. This is the story 256 pages of a boy who had to leave his hometown on Okinawa in Alfaguara, 2002 search of a new destiny. A common story for many generations of immigrants, where only names and cities change, that Maximiliano Matayoshi decided to tell Chitose Kajihara through the eyes of an unforgettable character. Every twist and turn in his path has the particular taste of revelations that will forever change our lives. With only 23 years of age and an unusual literary talent, Maximiliano Matayoshi was born in 1979 in Buenos Aires. He is the son and Matayoshi has written a surprising novel that explores grandson of Japanese immigrants and the deep differences (and big similarities) between spent a big part of his childhood in his www.typa.org.ar cultures, the worth of certain universal values, and the grandmother’s dry-cleaning-shop. Gaijin importance of having a personal ethic. is his first novel and was awarded the prize Primera Novela UNAM-Alfaguara 2002.

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11 Maximiliano Matayoshi Sierra Padre

María Martoccia Two men have been carelessly sharing a hut for ten 186 pages years; a woman likes to comment intensively on her Emecé, 2006 neighbours’ problems; a male nurse has a foible for his patients’ possesions… An apparently simple plot unravels through Sierra Padre Gonzalo Mainoldi like the wind that runs through the espinillos and jujube trees in the mountains. Dialogues follow their courses María Martoccia was born in Buenos Aires in 1957. She lived in Spain, while pretending that life is something else. Without the England, Morocco, Thailand and need for emphasis or verbal violence, Martoccia’s Yemen. Currently, she lives in a small characters take part in masterfully crafted scenes where town amidst the mountains of Córdoba, the play of tensions is as restraint and precise as in Argentina. www.typa.org.ar criollo duels or ritual combats. This novel -which weaves together the desperation of the provinces with that of the big city- is written with warmth, Other works by the author: Novels: elegance and, at the same time, the relentless strength Los Oficios (2003) that has already become a trademark of the author. Cuentos: Caravana (1996) Essays: Cuerpos frágiles, mujeres prodigiosas (with Javiera Gutiérrez, 2002)

12 Foreign Rights: with the author María Martoccia Apache Port

Juan Martini For Martini, a few pages are enough to introduce his 185 pages characters and create the atmosphere of this novel: Sudamericana, 2002 crime, the suburban underworld, lust, a new kind of poverty in the city of Buenos Aires, and a language that is capable of transmitting the immediate world with a Eduardo Carrera Eduardo freshness and an intensity that is not common in our Juan Martini was born in Rosario in literature. An urban plot devoid of any moralizing aspect 1944. He worked as a bookseller, opens up the door to Puerto Apache. And with an journalist and editor. Among other prices, austere yet imaginative voice, the author calls, obsesses he received the Mención Casa de las over and finally conquers the reader. Américas (1977), Guggenheim Fellowship A timely subject in a novel that sends the present into (1986), Premio Municipal de Literatura (1989) and Premio Boris Vian (1991). www.typa.org.ar the future, through the wise and lasting highways of good literature. Other works by the author: Novels: La vida entera (1981) Composición de lugar (1984) El fantasma imperfecto (1986) La construcción del héroe (1989) El enigma de la realidad (1991) La máquina de escribir (1996) El autor intelectual (2000) Colonia (2004)

13 Foreign Rights: with the author Juan Martini Yes, I’m a Bad Poet but…

Alberto Laiseca Analía is a bad poet; what she doesn’t know how to do 352 pages with words, she tries to do with her body. Tojo is a Gárgola, 2006 delirious and necrophilous Japanese man in love with Analía. Nobody really knows who the frog is, but beware: he may eat you! The Phantomness of the Gentileza Interzona Opera is the current version of a myth. The bad guys Alberto Laiseca was born in Rosario are the bad guys, so better we don’t mention them. in 1941. He worked for a telephone In this story, everybody tells stories. And together they company and as a proofreader at La Razón newspaper. He currently is a invent Laiseca, so that he can have hallucinations and consultant for Letra Buena publishing write the novels of a genius. house. Other works by the author: www.typa.org.ar Novels: Aventuras de un novelista atonal (1982) El jardín de las máquinas parlantes (1993) Los Soria (1998) Las aventuras del profesor Eusebio Filigranati (2003) Beber en rojo (2004) Essay: Por favor plágienme! (1991) Poems: Poemas chinos (1987) 14 Foreign Rights: with the author Alberto Laiseca Montevideo

Federico Jeanmaire “In Montevideo, Sarmiento is about to become 35 years 198 pages old. During the weeks before that day, he meets Vélez Norma, 1997 Sarsfield and Mariquita Sánchez. Sarmiento believes that he’s obsessed with becoming the Republic’s president, but this novel reveals that his true obsessions Federico Jeanmaire was born in are ugliness, age and women. Baradero in 1957. He was a finalist at Jeanmaire has written an erotic novel that doesn’t mean the Herralde Prize (1993) and was to reconstruct history, but to invent it. Nevertheless, awarded the Premio Consagración there’s something in his Sarmiento’s disarray that tells Ricardo Rojas for his novel Mitre (1999). us about the real Sarmiento, as if a funny and moving He has just won the Emecé Prize (Grupo Planeta). secret had been discovered.” – Beatriz Sarlo

www.typa.org.ar Other works by the author: Un profundo vacío en el pie izquierdo (1984) Desatando casi los nudos (1986, 2009) Miguel (1990) Prólogo anotado (1993) Montevideo (1997) Mitre (1998, 2005) Una virgen peronista (2001) Papá (2003) Países bajos (2004) La patria (2006)

Foreign Rights: Matthias Strobel 15 Literary Agency Federico Jeanmaire The Work

Aníbal Jarkowski Diana has been looking for a job for a long time. One 304 pages rainy afternoon, in the middle of an interview, her fate Tusquets, 2007 changes as she realizes that showing her body can be

the way to make men stop imposing their rules on her Gonzalo Mainoldi life. First inside a multinational company, then in a burlesque theatre, and finally by inventing a new artistic genre that combines strip-tease and accusation, Diana’s story is the tale of an unsettling dream of Aníbal Jarkowski was born in Lanús personal freedom. in 1960. He is a professor and a Getting closer to realism, Aníbal Jarkowski sets out to researcher at the Universidad de explore non-traditional forms of eroticism. In the end, Buenos Aires, where he specializes in www.typa.org.ar his new novel is a delicate meditation about the Argentinean literature. complex relationships between art and society. Other works by the author: Rojo amor (1993) Tres (1998)

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16 Aníbal Jarkowski Fire Clothes

Marcos Herrera A trip, a woman, occasional jobs, the capacity to live 157 pages under any kind of conditions, indifference towards the Lengua de trapo, 2001 possibility of taking the necessary step to leave life; running or drifting away, madness, alcohol, smuggling, whorehouses; Picard and Guiñazú crossing the Patricia Gabriela Bobbola Argentinean mesopotamia to reach a town next to a river that is always different, and yet the same. The universe of Fire Clothes has its roots in River-Plate- Marcos Herrera was born in Buenos narrative. Energized within the confines of its typical Aires in 1966. Fire Clothes won the II Premio de Novela organized by the sceneries and characters, it burns with the brilliance of Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2000). a sordid, inexpressible beauty. www.typa.org.ar

Other works by the author: Cacerías (1997)

Foreign Rights: with the author 17 Marcos Herrera Marcos Neon

Liliana Heer Neon, a wonderful example of this century’s 104 pages expressionism, invites the reader to delve into the Paradiso, 2007 fundamentals of power. In this novel three characters recreate humanity in Kafka’s style. Evil is shown from different points of view, in relation with an inheritance, Gustavo Tauschek with repression, with racial prejudices and with some Liliana Heer was born in Santa Fe in humorous lines that balance on the edge between 1943. She is a writer, psychoanalist and madness and reason, justice and unjustice, man and literary critic. She received the Boris animal. And above all towers an erotic scene that is the Vian Prize in 1984. leitmotiv of the whole story… www.typa.org.ar Other works by the author: Novels: Bloyd (1984) Ángeles de vidrio (1988) La tercera mitad (1988) Frescos de amor (1995) Short stories: Dejarse llevar (1980)

Foreign Rights: with the author 18 Liliana Heer Villa

Luis Gusmán When he was young and working wherever he could, 260 pages Villa defined himself with accuracy: “Where I am offered a Alfaguara, 1995; Edhasa, 2006 place, I stay”. Years later, he starts to work for the government, in the Welfare area. He follows a friend’s advice and studies to become a doctor. He is clever, he makes a career and believes he is beyond his time’s Luis Gusmán was born in Buenos Aires in 1944. He is a novelist, essayist conditions (the first half of the ‘70s in Latin America). He and psychoanalist. His novel Tennesse is wrong. History is not innocent and that phrase -“Where was made into a movie (Sotto voce, I am offered a place, I stay”- becomes a trap. The Army Mario Levin). rules and the doctors working for the country may have to comply with orders they could never have imagined. Other works by the author: www.typa.org.ar This outstanding novel is an exemplary tale of the violent Novels: times in Argentina during the last days of Isabel Peron’s El frasquito (1973) government and of the dictadura, as seen by an amoral En el corazón de junio (1983) La música de Frankie (1993) character, someone who is incapable of remembering Tennesse (1997) the treasons he accumulated in his own lifetime. Hotel Edén (1999) Ni muerto has perdido tu nombre (2002) Short stories: La rueda de Virgilio (1989) De dobles y bastardos (2000)

Foreign Rights: Schwermann Literary 19 Agency Luis Gusmán Downfall

Daniel Guebel Downfall tells the immediate consequences of a divorce. 192 pages To do so, it concentrates on a series of emotions that Mondadori, 2007 have left violent scars on the narrator: the disappointment, the relief and the pain of a middle-aged man who watches as his life falls down and disappears through the crack. In a chaotic and impatient retelling, Roxana Shoijet Guebel takes note of the sinking of his ambitions, dreams and hopes, and saves only one wonderful truth: the love for his daughter, a discreet witness endangered Daniel Guebel was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. He is a novelist and by her age, by the shade projected by the conflict script-writer (both theatre and movie). between her parents. Written with an elegance that www.typa.org.ar avoids anything obvious, with romantic inspiration that Other works by the author: wages it all in revealing a man’s heart, Downfall is a La Perla del Emperador (1990) moving descent into hell, a perfect example of how Matilde (1994) experiences and feelings can in fact be communicated. El terrorista (1998) This is a novel that has been received enthusiastically Nina (2000) both by the public and the literary critics. El perseguido (2001) La vida por Perón (2004) Carrera y Fracassi (2004)

Foreign Rights: Literarische Agentur 20 Mertin Daniel Guebel When Lidia Lived, She Wanted to Die

Elvio Gandolfo The title’s acid paradox reflects this book’s huge 195 pages attractiveness. At first look, a very boring, office-like Perfil Libros, 1998 reality makes us think that nothing is going on. Then, something extraordinary happens, but doesn’t seem to

alter anyone’s life. However, the reader realizes that an Panta Astiazarán obscure and dense influence starts to act on a Elvio Gandolfo was born in Mendoza seemingly unmovable reality… in 1947. He is a writer, poet, translator, editor and journalist. He now directs the Gandolfo constructs his stories with a firm and cultural supplement of El País conscious prose. In this way, he can allow himself to (Montevideo). With his novel Boomerang, talk about small, everyday issues and not about the “big he was finalist of Premio Planeta. things”. But his relentless, intelligent irony transforms www.typa.org.ar the common world into something exceptional. Other works by the author: Short stories: Gandolfo shows himself, again, as one of the most La reina de las nieves (1982) brilliant contemporary story writers. Sin creer en nada (1987) Dos mujeres (1994) Ferrocarriles Argentinos (1994) Parece mentira (1993) Novels: Boomerang (1993) Omnibus (2008)

21 Foreign Rights: with the author Elvio Gandolfo The Islands

Carlos Gamerro Buenos Aires, 1992: an unexpected call definitely alters 504 pages the life of the hacker and former soldier at Simurg, 1998; Norma, 2008 Malvinas/Falklands, Felipe Félix. The powerful Fausto Tamerlán has chosen him for the mission of finding the names of the witnesses of a crime committed by Laura Pribluda Tamerlán’s son. In order to do so, Félix needs to access Carlos Gamerro was born in Buenos Aires in 1962. He studied Literature at the files of the Intelligence Service and outwit its security the Universidad de Buenos Aires and system. Once there, he’ll face terrifying news: ten years took Script Courses at UCLA (UNITED later, the war still goes on. Officers and former soldiers STATES). In 2007 he was visiting fellow at plan to recover the Islands. Cambridge University. , war story, travelogue, fairy tale: Other works by the author: www.typa.org.ar Gamerro’s novel is a hallucinating packed with Essays: technology, a wonderful strange bird amidst Argentine Harold Bloom y el canon literario (2003) El nacimiento de la literatura argentina y literature. otros ensayos (2006) Novels: Las Islas (1998 y 2007) El sueño del Señor Juez (2000) El secreto y las voces (2002) La aventura de los bustos de Eva (2004) Short Stories: El libro de los afectos raros (2005)

Foreign Rights: Matthias Strobel 22 Literary Agency Carlos Gamerro Apex

Gustavo Ferreyra The city -Buenos Aires- emerges slowly in this novel, 327 pages and it is the city we deserve, the novel-city of the Sudamericana, 2004 present. Action and geography seem to walk together and, sometimes, join efforts to keep the characters of the story apart, missing each other in the places where they should have met. And the other way round. In this way, we -the readers- can discover details that a more Gustavo Ferreyra was born in Buenos Aires in 1963. He studied general view would never show us. Up close, Apex Sociology and works as a professor. He seems to say, every act is a criminal act; up close, every writes for different media in Argentina fictional character is a monster. and Spain. In 2003, he was a finalist at Over the years, Ferreyra has created a very personal the Premio Clarín. www.typa.org.ar style: abundant and baffling. With much of the best XIXth Century novels, he knows how to describe, Other works by the author: suggest and theorize without loosing dramatic power. Novels: El amparo (1994) El desamparo (1999) Gineceo (2001) El director (2006) Short Stories: El perdón (1997)

23 Foreign Rights: with the author Gustavo Ferreyra Estela in the Woods

Sergio Delgado What is a frontier, in the end, but a limit -real or 320 pages imaginary- between the known and the unknown? Beatriz Viterbo, 2006 Nobody knows exactly where it is and yet, nobody crosses it without a shiver. Estela in the woods puts together two frontier tales: an expedition of European

settlers against American Indians in the XIXth Century, a Sastre Marcelo few years before Patagonia was conquered, and the trip of a descendant of those settlers to Bretagne, at the Sergio Delgado was born in Santa end of the XXth Century. The subject here is not history, Fe in 1961. He coordinated the publishing house of the Universidad old nor new. Both tales are as wary of the past as they del Litoral. He currently lives in are of the present. In both it is an interior frontier, Lorient (France), where he teaches www.typa.org.ar marked by savage losses -a girl taken prisoner or a Art and Literature at the University disappeared boy-, that draws the uncomprehensible of Bretagne-Sud. limit between the familiar and the foreign. What we have and what we loose, what we remember and what we Other works by the author: forget, are not necessarily related. La selva de Marte (1994) El alejamiento (1996) La laguna (2001) Al fin (2005)

Foreign Rights: Beatriz Viterbo 24 Editora/ Letras Argentinas Sergio Delgado Sergio The Good

Jorge Consiglio Bodart, Grace and Eamon start towards the suburbs of 156 pages Buenos Aires to buy a house and shed the detritus of a Norma, 2003 marriage; Ronald Hampton travels from Germany to Argentina to film a documentary and stays; Mejía is a policeman who always looks after the same, monotonous city blocks.

With impeccable prose, Jorge Consiglio shows an Daniel Mariani extraordinary capacity to describe through his story the Jorge Consiglio was born in Buenos Aires in 1962. He is a poet and writer. disappointment of a world that has forgotten itself. A He is now working on his third novel. world where every mention of good does nothing but ironically underline its absence. Maybe that’s why, www.typa.org.ar among the rest of us, goodness can survive only as a vague illusion. Other works by the author: Novel: For this novel, the author received the prize Opera Gramática de la sombra (2006) Prima Nuevos Narradores (Spain) in 2001. The book Poetry: was published in Spain, where it sold four editions. Las frutas y los días (1992) Las arrugas de la terraza (1994) Children’s books: La isla de Badir (2000)

Foreign Rights: Agencia Guillermo 25 Schavelzon & Asociados Jorge Consiglio Jorge The Aquatics

Marcelo Cohen Among constantly bifurcating river channels, the reader 319 pages will find the Panoramic Delta. There, every island has Norma, 2001 created its own original myth, that could be useful in generating its own future. But maybe there is nothing to invent, because the future is already there. The Aquatics is made up of a series of provocative

tales, where each character uses its unchangeable Hernán Zenteno future like a magnifying glass to look at the present. And Marcelo Cohen was born in Buenos above everything, there is “Panconscience”, the Aires in 1951. Writer, translator, possibility of being inside oneself and, at the same time, journalist and editor, he now directs the review Otra parte. inside others: the supreme addiction. www.typa.org.ar Like the inhabitants of the islands of the Panoramic Delta, Cohen’s texts are driven by the ambition to be Other works by the author: everywhere and, at the same time, by the happy Novels: El país de la dama eléctrica (1984) negation of sailing on waters where others have already El oído absoluto (1997) been. This book swims in the big river of fantastic Hombres amables (1998) literature, where even the strangest ideas can come true. Donde yo no estaba (2006) Impureza (2007) Short Stories: El buitre en invierno (1984) El fin de lo mismo (1992)

Foreign Rights: Agencia Guillermo 26 Schavelzon & Asociados Marcelo Cohen Marcelo Natural Promises

Oliverio Coelho Oliverio Coelho’s literature explores a possible future 168 pages world, a sort of nightmare where humanity is menaced Norma, 2006 by mutations that bring us fully back to the animal world. The government establishes the right to live and reproduce, thus setting strict limits to this humanity. Oliverio Coelho Huge sections of the population are driven away; they join with the unstable masses of subhuman hordes -the Oliverio Coelho was born in Buenos ilots- that fight for survival. Bernina, the protagonist, Aires in 1977. He participated in writers’ moves in this parallel territory, carrying along a puppet in programmes in Mexico and South a suitcase and a mutant child in her belly. Corea. He received a grant by the Natural Promises is written in a strange language, still Fondo Nacional de las Artes and writes www.typa.org.ar recognizable, but where words seem slightly out of about literature in Los Inrockuptibles. focus, aloof from what they are naming. In this way, the author joins an area of contemporary narrative which is Other works by the author: highlighted by the creative power of books like Emma, La víctima y los sueños (2002) la cautiva (César Aira), Los acuáticos (Marcelo Cohen) Tierra de vigilia (2000) and Riddley Walker (Russel Hoben). Los invertebrables (2003) Borneo (2004) Ida (2008)

27 Foreign Rights: Editorial Norma Oliverio Coelho The No Variations

Luis Chitarroni In this book –one of the most complex and challenging 245 pages texts of Argentine literature in the recent years–, the Interzona, 2007 Borgesian themes of erudition, tradition and consecration are sent through the shredding machine. The result is a “novel” made up of diaries, notes, Marina Lezama forgetfulness, articles and poems created by writers invented by the author. In the words of the critic Beatriz Sarlo: “Chitarroni walks through a garden in ruins, were stories don’t flow, but Luis Chitarroni was born in Buenos Aires in 1958. He is a writer, critic and get cut off, interrupted; they come back with differences editor. and repetitions, only to prove, finally, the difficulty of www.typa.org.ar creating new fiction. His novel is melancholic: not anymore, and yet…”. Other works by the author: Siluetas (1992) El carapálida (1997)

28 Foreign Rights: Interzona Editora Luis Chitarroni Baroni: a Trip

Sergio Chejfec In the Venezuelan mountains lives Rafaela Baroni, one 182 pages of the most unique artists of the continent. A renowned Alfaguara, 2007 engraver –also a healer, necromancer, performer, psychic and educator– she works with popular religion and the pictorial tradition of virgins and saints. And as it Graciela Montaldo happens with great artists, her personality seems too Sergio Chejfec was born in Buenos simple to explain the complex results of her activity. Aires in 1956. He lived in Caracas Baroni: a Trip is a story about something that isn’t clear between 1990 and 2005. He now at first view: it could be about the artist, or art in resides in New York. general, or Venezuela, or the ideas that appear within the text. The tone of the novel entwines with that of the Other works by the author: www.typa.org.ar essay, descriptions turn whimsical and testimonies end Novels: up being suggestive elegies. One of a kind. Lenta biografía (1990) El aire (1992) Cinco (1996) Los planetas (1999) Boca de lobo (2000) Los incompletos (2004) Poems: Gallos y huesos (2003) El punto vacilante (2005)

29 Foreign Rights: with the author Sergio Chejfec Sergio The Lemmings and Others

Fabián Casas Buenos Aires has many neighbourhoods that are often 99 pages recalled. This book gives life to one of them, Boedo, in Santiago Arcos, 2005 the multifaceted decades of the 1970’s and 1980’s. Fabián Casas resorts to “that kind of purgatory of childhood where those impressions live that will stay

with you forever”. From there, he sends out to the world Timo Berger a handful of unforgettable characters: Fuzzaro the Fabián Casas was born in 1965. He is Italian, Uzu the Japanese (inventor of a “Boedo-Zen”) a poet, writer and author of lyrics for and Nancy Costas, an ex punk who became a several rock-groups. In 2007 he won hairdresser. the Anna Seghers Literary Prize The voice that puts together their stories creates a new (Germany). www.typa.org.ar zone in Argentinean narrative. The psychedelic and low- brow Boedo of the end of the XXth Century is the right Other works by the author: place to begin with this political and esthetic Poetry: anthropology of a generation. Tuca (1990) El Salmón (1996) Oda (2004) El spleen de Boedo (2004) Narrative: Ocio (2000) Non-fiction: Ensayos Bonsái (2007)

30 Foreign Rights: with the author Fabián Casas Atlántida

Juan José Becerra Elena has left Rosales; the loss upsets him in such a 150 pages way that his perception of the world changes. Absence Norma, 2001 is not a void, but a lack that drains Rosales’ will to live. Atlántida is the narration of his hard work to define a new world which has lost its meaning. Thus, the novel’s

language is strange: it questions the routines that have Gonzalo Mainoldi been established by memory. In his constant and frustrating quest to rebuild the past and recover his beloved, Rosales realizes that Elena does not exist in Juan José Becerra was born in Buenos Aires in 1965. He was a literary the past but in the future, not in recollection, but in an critic and wrote about Sports for the eternal possibility. magazine Ole. www.typa.org.ar Becerra has written a deeply erotic novel that unveils a world about to break into pieces. His book is an extraordinary attempt to narrate that moment where life Other works by the author: falls apart into a number of infinite and simultaneous Novels: questions about those words that, normally, are used to Santo (1994) say it all. Miles de años (2004) Non-fiction: Grasa (2007) La vaca (2008)

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