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Luisa Valenzuela was born on 26 November, 1938, is an Argentine writer. Discover Luisa Valenzuela's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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1938

Luisa Valenzuela Levinson (born 26 November 1938) is an Argentine post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer.

Her writing is characterized by an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.

was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 26 November 1938, to Pablo Francisco Valenzuela, a physician, and to writer Luisa Mercedes Levinson.

At the family home, various writers gathered such as Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges, and Ernesto Sabato.

Though she felt an interest in natural sciences from an early age, at 17 she began publishing in several newspapers, such as Atlántida, El Hogar and Esto Es, and worked for Radio Belgrano, as well.

At 20, just barely married to Theodore Marjak, a French merchant marine, she moved to Paris where she worked for Radio Télévision Française, and met members of both the nouveau roman literary movement and Tel Quel.

She published her first fiction work entitled Clara (Hay que sonreír), whose main character would give its name to the title of the book of both English and French translations.

1958

In 1958, Luisa Valenzuela gave birth to her daughter, Anna-Lisa Marjak.

1961

In 1961, she moved back to Argentina, where she worked as a journalist for La Nación and Crisis magazine.

1965

In 1965 she got divorced.

1967

During 1967 and 1968 she traveled throughout Bolivia, Peru and Brazil working for La Nación.

1969

In 1969, she obtained the Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Iowa where she wrote The Efficient Cat (El gato eficaz).

1970

She may be best-known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina.

1972

Between 1972 and 1974 she lived in Mexico City, Paris and Barcelona, with a brief stay in New York, where she researched the expression of the marginal United States literature as a recipient of the scholarship awarded by Argentina's National Fund for the Arts (Fondo Nacional de las Artes).

As a consequence of the National Reorganization Process, that partially censored her novel He Who Searches (Como en la guerra) by removing a torture scene, she moved to the United States where she lived for ten years.

1977

Works such as Como en la guerra (1977), Cambio de armas (1982) and Cola de lagartija (1983) combine a powerful critique of dictatorship with an examination of patriarchal forms of social organization and the power structures which inhere in human sexuality and gender relationships.

Luisa Valenzuela Levinson

1982

There she published in 1982 her short fiction book Change of Guard (Cambio de armas) and in 1983 The Lizard's Tail (Cola de lagartija), a novel about José López Rega, Minister of Social Welfare during Isabel Perón's presidency that was supposed to be originally titled as Red Ant Sorcerer, Lord of Tacurú and Her Sister Estrella (El Brujo Hormiga Roja, Señor del Tacurú y su Hermana Estrella).

Luisa Valenzuela was a Resident Writer at the Center for Interamerican Relations at New York and Columbia University, where she taught writing workshops and seminars for ten years.

She was a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities, at the Fund for Free Expression and member of the Freedom to Write Committee of the PEN American Center.

1983

In 1983 she was awarded the Guggenheim Scholarship.

1989

In 1989 she returned to Buenos Aires, where she finished her fiction works National Reality from Bed (Realidad nacional desde la cama), conceived initially as a play but finished as a novel and Black novel with Argentines (Novela negra con argentinos) that originally was meant to bear the title of The Motive (El motivo).