(Who are currently your favorite writers, be they Argentine… - Angélica Gorodischer

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(Who are currently your favorite writers, be they Argentine, Latin American or from elsewhere?) AG: Borges, of course. Borges always. Balzac, also always. Alejo Carpentier, Clarice Lispector, Armonía Somers, Juan Rulfo, Mercé Rodoreda, Grace Paley, Marcel Proust. Oh, so many people, so many!

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Angélica Gorodischer (28 July 1928 – 5 February 2022) was a writer from Argentina who was known for her short stories, which belong to a wide variety of genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, crime and stories with a feminist perspective.

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Alternative Names: Angélica Beatriz Gorodischer • Angélica Beatriz del Rosario Arcal • Angelica Gorodischer

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As Borges, the Master, said: “When I heard Funes speak, then I had the story.” One has to let the character speak.

(about Argentina) Its tendencies are self-destructive. Everything here is concerned with death, not life. Argentina functions opposite to the way it should, that’s why it’s surreal.

I am not an academic, nor a teacher, nor a B.A., nor a doctor, nothing. I am a writer of narrative and that’s how I hope and like to be thought of...I am not a writer of science fiction. I am a writer and that is how I want to be thought of.

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