Federico Jeanmaire
Argentina, 1957
WINNER OF THE 2009 CLARÍN PRIZE FOR THE NOVEL
A FINALIST IN THE 34TH HERRALDE PRIZE FOR THE NOVEL
Federico Jeanmaire was born in 1957 in Baradero, in the province of Buenos Aires. He studied humanities at the University of Buenos Aires, where he later taught Argentine Literature. His particular area of research was the Spanish Siglo de Oro. His novel MIGUEL, a fictional autobiography about Cervantes, came second in the Premio Herralde de Novela in 1990. In 2003 his novel MITRE received the Premio Consagración Ricardo Rojas, alongside the Premio Nacional one of Argentina's most important literary prizes. In 2008 his novel INTERIOR LIFE received the Premio Edhasa and in 2009 LIGHTER THAN AIR won the Premio Clarín, the literature prize in Argentina with the highest sales impact. In 2014, West German Broadcasting Cologne adapted this novel as a successful radio programme.
PUBLISHED BY: Spanish ANAGRAMA / TUSQUETS / EDHASA / SEIX BARRAL | Arabic MASAA | France GALLIMARD | Greece OPERA | German UNIONSVERLAG | Italy PESSIME IDEE
By Federico Jeanmaire
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NARRATIVE, 2020
Wërra is a Germanic word, from which the Spanish "guerra" derives, as well as the French "guerre", or the English "war". And indeed, Jeanmaire‘s new novel is a literary "attempt at...
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NOVEL, 2019
The kind of story that could only have happened in Argentina, in which vice brings the great and the good down to the same level, showing that, to an extent ‘We're all Fernández.'...
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NOVEL, 2018
In his novel The Creation of Eve, Federico Jeanmaire lets his characters speak: on one side the transsexual Maruja who needs help from God and for whom everything, even the language, is feminine....
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NOVEL, 2016
A FINALIST IN THE 34TH HERRALDE PRIZE FOR THE NOVEL The dwarves Perico and Milagro make a living as strippers. Their number in the bar, based around Perico's big penis, becomes the most...
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NARRATIVE, 2016
Fifteen-year-old Lin Su Nuam, the protagonist of Jeanmaire latest novel High Heels ("Tacos altos"), has been living with her grandparents in China for several months. Although her family comes...
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NOVEL, 2009
WINNER OF THE 2009 CLARÍN PRIZE FOR THE NOVEL In Lighter Than Air ("Más liviano que el aire ") an excess of confidence was the thief's downfall. Or perhaps the impetuousness of...
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