Eduardo Berti
ARGENTINA, 1964
Eduardo Berti was born in Buenos Aires in 1964. He has been a member of OuLiPo (the famous group Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais) since 2014. His first work of fiction, Los pájaros (The Birds, 1994) was praised by the critics and won a Grant-Award from Cultura Magazine. This was followed by two major novels: Agua (Water) and La mujer de Wakefield (Wakefield's Wife). La mujer de Wakefield was a finalist in the prestigious Fémina Prize for Best Book from Overseas in France. In 1998, he moved to Paris where he worked as a cultural journalist, a correspondent for different media outlets and a scriptwriter and taught courses in writing. In 2002, he published La vida imposible (The Impossible Life), whose translation into French received the Libralire-Fernando Aguirre Prize. Two years later he published Todos los Funes (All the Funes), with which he won the prestigious Premio Herralde and hailed as one of the books of the year by the Times Literary Supplement. In recent years, Berti has combined his creative work (the novel La sombra del púgil (The Pugilist's Shadow) and the story collection Lo inolvidable (The Unforgettable) with translations of authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert and Elizabeth Bowen. In 2011 he won the Emecé Prize and the Las Américas Prize for the Novel with his book El país imaginado (The Imagined Country, Impedimenta, 2012). He currently lives in Bordeaux.
"One of the most original and talented novelists writing in Spanish today"
ALBERTO MANGUEL
"An author with an overwhelming imagination and an unusual ability to surprise the reader and steal a smile."
JAVIER YUSTE, EL CULTURAL
"For 30 years I've been reading publishers' manuscrits and in that time I've only discovered seven writers. Eduardo Berti is the seventh"HÉCTOR BIANCIOTTI
"A highly personal and innovative literature providing tremendous reading pleasure"
GERARD DE CORTANZE, LE FIGARO
“Eduardo Berti’s talent and comic sensibility are beyond debate”
ANTÓN CASTRO, ABC
"A genuinely innovate talent"
PAUL BAILEY, DAILY TELEGRAPH
“An unclassifiable, i.e.: brilliant, writer”
FRÉDÉRIC VITOUX, LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR
"Eduardo Berti has `born storyteller´ written all over him"
JULIA SÁEZ-ANGULO, EL SEMANAL
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By Eduardo Berti
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Other words. Play and create with dictionaries
ESSAY, 2024
«Instead of yearning for control or mastery over words, anti-dictionaries establish a dialogue and install uncertainty. Unlike official dictionaries, they operate disguised as rigor and...
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A Quick, Easy Guide to Reading
NARRATIVE, 2023
‘If reading can be a celebration, why limit yourself to a single set of rules and unimaginative guidelines?' In these pages, Eduardo Berti proposes a range of alternative ways to read...
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CHRONICLE, 2022
Following the publication of Un padre extranjero (A Foreign Father), Eduardo Berti receives a wholly unexpected package in the mail: photocopies of a set of documents that his father, who was born...
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SHORT STORIES, 2020
What do books mean to us? What do readers mean to books? How, when and why do we read? Out of pleasure, compulsion, anxiety, or obsession? Do we organize our bookshelves or do they organize us?...
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NOVEL, 2019
At the relaxed pace that Fangio describes as the ideal speed, Eduardo Berti casts a net of profound, carefully disordered memories in an original, nostalgic coming of age tale. Buenos...
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An Inventory of (invented) Inventions
NARRATIVE, 2017
An Inventory of (invented) Inventions is an enormous library of literary inventions: objects that only exist in fiction and other creations that first appeared in the pages of a book or the...
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NOVEL, 2017
People carrying strange objects on their bicycles, street vendors selling insect skewers, labyrinthine shopping centres, jammed motorways and the discovery at a flea market of an old,...
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NARRATIVE, 2017
Doctors, interns, nurses, carers and orderlies but also beauticians, musicians and readers... At the hospital each of them takes turns describing their...
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NOVEL, 2016
Two fathers and a silent, almost absent relationship with their only sons. Two families trying to understand the enigma of a foreign father. Immigrants who decide to reinvent themselves far from...
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NOVEL, 2011
LAS AMÉRICAS NOVEL AWARD 2012 EMECÉ NOVEL AWARD 2011 In a town in China, just before the Revolution, a fourteen-year-old little girl, called Ling, admires and adores...
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SHORT STORIES, 2010
The first day at school. A pianist, who all of a sudden, forgets music. Dentures that speak on their own at night. An innocent lie that grows with time, just like a snowball. An obsessive diaries...
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NOVEL, 2008
A story of three obsessions: a boxer who longs to face again the only opponent who ever defeated him; an undeniable, practically forbidden love; and three children trying to get to know their...
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NOVEL, 2004
FINALIST HERRALDE NOVEL PRIZE 2004 Half fantasy, half realism, packed with dreamlike motifs, outlandish adventures and meaningful nods towards Cortazar and Hitchcock, Borges and Roa Bastos,...
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NOVEL, 1997
The year is 1920, and Luis Agua, an authorised representative of an electricity company, arrives in Vila Natal, an inhospitable village in Portugal. His objective is to convince the inhabitants of...
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SHORT STORIES, 1994
The shadow of a writer or the prehistory of a grandfather, outer space or the shallows of a swimming pool, the sinister possibilities of compote or the almost secret apocalypse of a story in the...
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