Name: Elena Knows
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Author: Claudia Piñeiro
ISBN: 9781999368432

Type

Physical Book

Author

Claudia Piñeiro

Translated by

Frances Riddle

Publisher

Charco Press

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

173

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6x12.4x1.5 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781999368432

Synopsis "Elena Knows "

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.

Claudia Piñeiro

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Claudia Piñeiro was born in Greater Buenos Aires in 1960. She is a writer, playwright, TV scriptwriter, and contributor to various print media. She has published the novels Las viudas de los jueves, Tuya, Elena sabe, Las grietas de Jara, Betibú, Un comunista en calzoncillos, Una suerte pequeña, Las maldiciones, Catedrales, and El tiempo de las moscas. In 2018, Alfaguara published her collected stories in Quién no, and in 2021, in Argentina, a volume with her plays, Cuánto vale una heladera y otros textos de teatro

For her literary, theatrical, and journalistic work, she has received various national and international awards, including the Premio Clarín de Novela, the LiBeraturpreis Award, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award, the Rosalía de Castro Award from the PEN (Club of Poets, Essayists, and Narrators of Galicia), the Pepe Carvalho Award from the Barcelona Negra Festival, the Dashiell Hammett Award from the Semana Negra de Gijón, the Negra y Criminal Award from the Tenerife Noir Festival, the Best Novel Award from the Valencia Negra Festival, and was a finalist for the International Booker Prize 2022 with the English translation of Elena sabe

As a co-author, along with Marcelo Piñeiro, of the TV series El reino, she won the Platino Award for best series creators. Several of her novels have been adapted into films. She is one of the most translated Argentine writers into other languages, making her books read and enjoyed by thousands of readers around the world

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