Leopoldo Brizuela
ARGENTINA, 1963 - 2019
Leopoldo Brizuela was born in 1963 in La Plata, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied Literature at the University of La Plata. He was a narrator, poet and translator.
His first novel, Tejiendo agua (Knitting Water), written at the age of seventeen, won the 1985 Fortabat Prize. England. A fable won the Clarín Novel Prize 1999 and the Municipal Prize of the City of Buenos Aires, and was published in several countries, with acclaimed reviews in international media such as Le Monde, El País and La Folha de São Paulo.
In 2012 she won the Alfaguara Novel Prize for The Same Night, and received two Konex awards: one in 2004 in the Short Story category: five-year period 1999-2003, and another in 2014 in the Novel category, period 201-2013.
He has translated Henry James, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, among other authors. He was writer-in-residence at the Banff Center For the Arts, Canada; at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, and received a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon for the study of Portuguese culture. He is a regular contributor to the newspapers Clarín and La Nación, and coordinated creative writing workshops.
«He was born a novelist. While reading him, from time to time I remembered
Onetti's best pages. But he is better as he masters the phrase even better.»
Hector Bianciotti
«A masterful work full of spirit, an impassioned embrace of the world,
language and the great literary works that they create. A vast story,
historical novel and odyssey based in part on real events. A fable that admirably
goes straight to the heart of England's culture and empire.»
Le Monde about England. A fable
«England. A fable is a complex and well built novel, generous
but also demanding with its readers. It is wide regards the materials
and subjects it addresses. With a plot carefully developed.
(...) this novel has been able to avoid lightness and simplicity»
Martín Kohan, Inrockuptibles
PUBLISHED BY: Argentina ALFAGUARA / LA PARTE MALDITA / CLUB CINCO | Spain ALIANZA | Brasil OBJETIVA | France SEUIL / CONTI | Germany SUHRKAMP | Italy PONTE ALLE GRAZIE | Portugal OBJECTIVA
By Leopoldo Brizuela
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NOVEL, 2018
Ensenada: a memoir is a novel about a girl who witnesses the rise and fall of Perón and the subsequent ban on Peronism. Poliya, an innocent, mischievous girl, and her family are present...
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NOVEL, 2012
Salvatore Onelli, adopted child of the Italian-Argentine naturalist and director of La Plata Zoo, decides to leave the town around 1932 when authorities do not let an Indian servant to...
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NOVELA, 2012
ALFAGUARA NOVEL AWARD 2012 Early one morning in 2010, a writer becomes a chance witness to a robbery in a neighbouring house. This is not a typical robbery: it is carried out by an...
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NOVEL, 2010
Lisbon, 1942. Portugal is about to enter the war. An arrival of cereal destined for the hungry of the city is expected, but the Argentine consul has decided to donate the entire shipment to the...
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Los que llegamos más lejos
SHORT STORIES, 2001
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NOVEL, 1999
CLARIN NOVEL PRIZE 1999 This fable begins at the close of the twentieth century, in the extreme south of the archipelago Tierra del Fuego, when a group of researchers on the island of Waichai...
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