Agustina Bazterrica
ARGENTINA, 1974
CLARÍN NOVEL PRIZE 2017
Agustina Bazterrica was born in Buenos Aires in 1974. She has a degree in Art from the University of Buenos Aires, and works as a cultural administrator and organizer of literary competitions such as the Premio Fondo Nacional de las Artes.
He has published two short story collections and two novels, including Tender is the Flesh, winner of the Clarín Novel Award, the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award and a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards. It is one of the best science fiction, fantasy or horror books of 2020 according to The Washington Post. This title made it a worldwide bestseller with more than half a million copies sold worldwide and more than 400,000 in the United States. It has been translated into more than 30 languages and is currently being adapted for television and film.
«The literature of Agustina Bazterrica is a carnivorous plant. Reading her means facing rows of fangs, beautiful and surprising colors and, of course, a mouth designed to slowly gobble up everything that falls into it».
Mercurio Magazine
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By Agustina Bazterrica
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FICTION, 2023
«No one refuses the Mother Superior. Not if they want to stay alive, that is.» The earth is ravaged by environmental catastrophes and wars over access to water. The weather can...
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Nineteen claws and a dark bird
SHORT STORIES, 2020
For many years, Agustina Bazterrica has been writing brief texts and short stories that Alfaguara has now collected in this volume. Nineteen stories that take us to the heart of our fears, our...
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NOVEL, 2017
An infectious virus that initially spreads among animals proves deadly to humans, turning the world into a grey, cynical and inhospitable place. It happened all so quickly. First, it was...
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SHORT STORIES, 2016
"Ferocity is the running theme of these stories; a ferocity of tooth, nail, style and energy. The fluid corrosiveness of each text evokes the knife-edge trodden by the characters: psychopaths...
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