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Reina Roffé

b. 1951

Argentine writer

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Born 1951. Reina Roffé is an Argentine writer, novelist and journalist.

Reina Roffé (born 4 November 1951) is an Argentine writer.

Awards “Premio Pondal Ríos al mejor libro de autor joven” for Llamado al Puf. Premio Bienal otorgado por la Fundación Odol de Buenos Aires, 1975 “Premio Bienal Internacional de Novela Breve para obras en castellano” for La rompiente, Municipalidad de Córdoba, Argentina, 1986. “Beca Fulbright para escritores”, International Writing Program, University of Iowa, USA, 1981. “Beca Antorchas de Literatura”, Fundación Antorchas, Buenos Aires, 1993.

Works Novels Llamado al Puf (1973), Pleamar, Buenos Aires. Monte de Venus (1976), Corregidor, Buenos Aires. La rompiente (1987), Puntosur, Buenos Aires, y Editorial Universitaria de Veracruz. El cielo dividido (1996), Sudamericana, Buenos Aires.

Short stories Aves exóticas. Cinco cuentos con mujeres raras. Editorial Leviatán, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004. Vivir entre extraños. Relatos de soledad y desarraigo. Hugo Benjamín, Buenos Aires, 2024.

Essays, biographies, and interviews Juan Rulfo: autobiografía armada (1973, essay), Corregidor, Buenos Aires. Reeditado por Editorial Montesinos, Barcelona, en 1992. Espejo de escritores (interviews) (1984). Ediciones del Norte, New Hampshire. Conversaciones americanas (interviews), Editorial Páginas de Espuma, Madrid, España, 2001. Juan Rulfo. Las mañas del zorro (biography). Editorial Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, España, 2003. Another edition: Mil Botellas, La Plata, Argentina, 2023. Juan Rulfo. Biografía no autorizada. Fórcola, Madrid, 2012. Another edition: Fórcola, Madrid, 2017. Voces íntimas. Entrevistas con autores latinoamericanos del siglo XX (interviews). Punto de vista editores, Madrid, 2021. Works in translation “Apokalypse Arlt. Das Vermächtnis” (“Apocalipsis Artl. El legado”), essay. In: Moderne in den Metropolen. Roberto Arlt und Alfred Döblin (Internationales Symposium, Buenos Aires-Berlín, 2004), edited by Marily Martínez de Richter, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, Germany, 2007. ”Exotic Birds” (“Aves exóticas”), short story. In: The House of Memory. Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America, antología. Edited by Marjorie Agosín, The Feminist Press, New York, USA, 1999. “Exotische Vögel” (“Aves exóticas”), short story. Revista Xicóatl, Salzburgo, Austria, año VIII /número 43, 1999. “Zugvogel” (“Ave de paso”), short story. Revista Xicóatl, Salzburg, Austria, año V/número 23/1996. “Eine Stadt in Grau und Beige” (“Una ciudad gris y beige”), short story. In: Erkundungen. 21 Erzähler vom Río de la Plata, antología. Edited by Casa de las Culturas del Mundo de Berlín, Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin, Germany, 1993. “Flut” (“Alta marea”), short story. In: Fallen die Perlen vom Mond?, antology. Edited by Mempo Giardinelli and Wolfgang Eitel, Editorial Piper, Munich, Germany, 1991. “Revelations” (“Revelaciones”), short story. In: Revista Present Tense, New York, USA, Spring 1985. “High Tide” (“Alta marea”), short story. In: Writing from the World, antology, The International Writing Program 1977-1983. The Iowa Review, Iowa, USA, volumen 14/número 2/1984. “Let’s Hear What He Has To Say” (“Oigamos lo que tiene que decir”), short story. In: The Web. Stories by Argentine Women, antology. Edited by H. Ernest Lewald, Three Continents Press, Washington D. C., USA, 1983. Uccelli rari ed esotici. Cinque racconti di donne straordinarie (Aves Exóticas. Cinco cuentos con mujeres raras), Alberobello, Italy, Poiesis Editrice 2010. L'onda che si infrange (La Rompiente), Alberobello, Italy, Poiesis Editrice 2010. The Reef and Exotic Birds: Five Stories with Rare Women (La rompiente y Aves exóticas. Cinco cuentos con mujeres raras), University Press of the South, New Orleans, USA, 2010. L’altro amore di Federico García Lorca a Buenos Aires, Poiesis editrice, Alberobello, Italy, 2016. Oiseaux exotiques. Six histoires de femmes bizarres. Incluye La mère de Mary Shelley (La madre de Mary Shelley, nouvelle). Editorial L’ Harmattan, Paris, France, 2023.

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Who is Reina Roffé?

Argentine writer

When was Reina Roffé born?

Reina Roffé was born on 4 November 1951 in Buenos Aires.

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Reina Roffé is a writer, novelist and journalist.

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Reina Roffé is Argentine.

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