Synopsis "Eine Geschichte (in German)"

"This is the story of a man who took part in a dance contest." It is thus that Argentine journalist and author Leila Guerriero opens her book. It tells the most difficult of all epic stories: that of the common man. This is an electrifying work that spans the genres of journalism and fiction. It tells a moving and strangely intimate story about malambo, a traditional dance of the Argentine gauchos, and about the Malambo Festival of Laborde in the southeast of the Argentinian province of Córdoba. It is also about Rodolfo González Alcántara, who won the dance competition in 2012. Leila Guerriero is a gifted chronicler. Her internationally acclaimed work A Simple Story was published in Spanish in 2013 and in English in 2017, and now appears in German for the first time, in a translation by Angelica Ammar.

Leila Guerriero

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Leila Guerriero (Argentina, 1967) is a journalist. Her work is published in various media outlets across Latin America and Spain: La Nación and Rolling Stone, from Argentina; El País, from Spain; Gatopardo, from Mexico, and El Mercurio, from Chile, among others. She is the editor for Latin America of the Mexican magazine Gatopardo. She published the books Los suicidas del fin del mundo, Frutos extraños and, at Anagrama, Una historia sencilla, Zona de obras, Plano americano, Opus Gelber. Portrait of a Pianist, La otra guerra and La llamada. In 2010, her text "El rastro en los huesos", published in El País and Gatopardo, received the CEMEX+FNPI award. Some of her books have been translated into English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Swedish, and Polish.

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