Alicia Plante

Alicia Susana Plante (born 1939) is an Argentine writer, translator, and psychologist, considered one of the main figures of Argentine noir fiction.

Biography Alicia Plante was born Buenos Aires in 1939. The daughter of an accountant, she began writing at the age of ten. In 1970, she published her first book, the poetry collection Asumiendo mi alma. After this, she was invited by Harvard University to record unpublished poems and, between 1976 and 1980, she studied psychology. Plante published her first novel, Un aire de familia, in 1990, which won the Premio Azorín, and was published in Argentina by Letra Buena in 1992. In 2016, she published her sixth novel, La sombra del otro, and two years later, in 2018, the crime novel Mala leche.

Awards and recognition In 1990, her novel Un aire de familia (entered under the name Tras el verde) won the Premio Azorín, presented by the provincial government of Alicante and the publishing house Planeta. She was the first non-Spaniard to achieve this honor.

Publications Novels 1990: Un aire de familia 2003: El círculo imperfecto 2011: Una mancha más 2013: Fuera de temporada 2014: Verde oscuro 2016: La sombra del otro 2018: Mala leche 2020: El menor

Poetry 1970: Asumiendo mi alma