María Cecilia Barbetta

María Cecilia Barbetta (born 8 July 1972 in Buenos Aires) is a German-language writer. Since 2011 she is a member of the PEN Centre Germany. In 2008, she won the Aspekte-Literaturpreis.

Life Barbetta studied German as a foreign language in her native Argentina. She came to Berlin in 1996 with a DAAD scholarship. After completing her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 2000, she has been a freelance author (since 2005). In 2007 she was awarded the Alfred Döblin Fellowship by the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and participated in the author's workshop Prosa of the Literary Colloquium in Berlin. Los Milagros Tailor's Shop was her first novel. She spent the year 2013 at Villa Massimo in Rome. 2009 Adelbert von Chamisso-Förderpreis 2017 Alfred Döblin Prize

Memberships 2011 PEN Centre Germany

Works