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Claudia Piñeiro
Argentine Novelist and Screenwriter
Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist, playwright and screenwriter, born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province, in 1960. She studied at the University of Buenos Aires and is known for crime and mystery novels. Her prizes include the German LiBeraturpreis for Elena Sabe and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Las grietas de Jara. Elena Knows, in Frances Riddle’s translation, was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and adapted into a film for Netflix in 2023. Her picks here are five novels by contemporary Argentinian writers: Selva Almada’s Not a River, Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream, Dolores Reyes’s Eartheater, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s The Adventures of China Iron and Martín Kohan’s Confession.
Eartheater
by Dolores Reyes · 2021 · Fiction
“Reyes takes a very important matter and looks at it in a very creative way.” — via Interview, March 2025
The Adventures of China Iron
by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara · 2020 · Fiction
“The Adventures of China Iron is indeed a book of adventures, written in beautiful prose, with extraordinary characters.” — via Interview, March 2025
Confession
by Martín Kohan · 2023 · Fiction
“In the book, there are no stereotypes. Nobody is good all the time, nobody is bad all the time.” — via Interview, March 2025
Not a River
by Selva Almada · 2024 · Fiction
“Selva Almada is, in many ways, the writer of the river. She often sets her stories on a river landscape.” — via Interview, March 2025
Fever Dream
by Samanta Schweblin · 2018 · Fiction
“It's in the margins of science fiction or fantastic literature. Something is happening, and you don't know if it is real or not.” — via Interview, March 2025
