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Débora Mundani Argentina
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Débora Mundani was born in Buenos Aires
in 1972. She has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies and a Master in
Cultural Management and now teaches communication theory and practice at the
University of Buenos Aires. Her debut novel El río
and her latest novels El asiento vacío and La
convención were all shortlisted for the Premio Clarín.
After his mother Elena's death Horacio, who grew up fatherless, fulfils
her last wish by taking her body upriver to Elena's home village. During a
threatening storm he has to take shelter on the roof of a house, where he meets
the old Juan. Horacio soon realises there is more to link him to this stranger
than he ever could have imagined.
With this captivating, multi-voiced novel El río ("The River"), an impressive young writer takes
her place in the Argentine literary landscape.
When Fabián ends up in the drugs scene, his brother and sister Gabriel and Paula are a great support to him. Paula
especially longs for stability in her life, yet even she cannot prevent the
gradual self-destruction of the family.
El asiento vacío ("The Empty Seat") is an impressive novel about sibling ties
and the fragile web of interpersonal relations. In strong language at times
shocking in its clarity, the author tells a highly moving family story that is
both tender and drastically realistic.
Débora Mundani is among those young Argentinean
writers with a great future ahead of them. Her prose is strong, her language
exquisite, but above all, Mundani never forgets what
constitutes the essence of a novel: creating characters and telling a story.
Claudia Piñeiro
Novels:
El río
Shortlisted for the Premio Clarín 2009 and the Premio Letra Sur 2010
Buenos Aires: Bajo la luna
El asiento
vacío
2° Premio del
Fondo Nacional de las Artes 2011
Shortlisted for the Premio Clarín 2010
Buenos Aires: Bajo la luna
La convención
Shortlisted for the Premio Clarín 2011
Manuscript, 164 p.