«I suspect that what I write is born of silence. That is how it has been since I was a child: from silence to writing. From resistance to speech and the pleasure of constructing a text».
Admired by thousands of readers across the world, Claudia Piñeiro is, in addition to being a prolific, award-winning fiction writer (including novels, stories, film and TV scripts and plays), a savvy observer of reality. For the first time, this book gathers together numerous texts published over the years in different media: personal and autobiographical reflections on childhood, family, friends, teachers, maternity, her writing, the writers who influenced her, the pandemic and her travels to literary festivals, as well as more overtly political texts such as her celebrated speech to Congress in defence of a woman’s right to choose and her speeches at the openings of book fairs in Buenos Aires and Rosario.
Writing a Silence offers us a new, more intimate perspective on one of Argentina’s most beloved writers, a leading feminist figure and campaigner for the rights of writers and the importance of disobedience as an ethical stance. This is a unique, generous book from an iconic author.
«The possibilities of this literary proposal are almost infinite, so much so that it would be difficult to complete the reading of the work twice and not feel that a new book has been read each time. Social and political concerns alternate with personal difficulties, with the obstacles of illness, old age, separation, the growth of children, the loss of loved ones»
El Generacional
«Writing a Silence shows the personal, subtle and super lucid gaze of a genuine observer of reality who has been able to translate the world into tremendous stories, but above all knows how to place the precise challenges and questions before herself and her readers.»
Ave Barrera
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