Leila Guerriero

Leila Guerriero (born 17 February 1967) is an Argentine journalist and writer.

Career Leila Guerriero was born to a Syrian-descent father and a German-descent mother. She graduated from the Colegio Nacional Normal Superior de Junín. She studied tourism, a field in which she did not end up working. Her empirical start in journalism was in 1992 when she got her first job as editor at Página/30, a monthly magazine of the newspaper Página/12. After sending a story entitled "Kilómetro cero" to the paper's reception desk, she received, four days later, a call from the then director Jorge Lanata.

Since then her works have appeared in various media such as La Nación and Rolling Stone from Argentina, El País and Vanity Fair from Spain, El Malpensante and SoHo from Colombia, and and El Mercurio de Valparaíso from Chile. In addition, she is the Latin America editor for the Mexican magazine Gatopardo.

In 2014 she received a Konex Award Diploma of Merit in the Chronicles and Testimonies category.

Works Los suicidas del fin del mundo, chronicle of a Patagonian town, Tusquets, 2005, Una historia sencilla, Anagrama, 2013, Zona de obras, Anagrama, 2015, Cuba en la encrucijada: 12 perspectivas sobre la continuidad y el cambio en La Habana y en todo el país, editor, Knopf Doubleday, 2018,

Awards 2010 2014 Konex Award