Federico Jeanmaire
ARGENTINA, 1957
UNICAJA 'FERNANDO QUIÑONES' 2021 PRIZE FOR THE NOVEL
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.
"Since the early 1990s, Federico Jeanmaire has been building one of the most solid and propositive works in Latin American literature."
Rafael Toriz, Perfil
"A literature that is sometimes secret and sometimes public: always a must when thinking about the new Argentinian narrative".
Fernando Krapp, Página/12
"Surprise is something that accompanies all of this novelist's titles".
Marta Rózpide, El Imparcial
"Federico Jeanmaire keeps searching for a peculiar form in each novel, a procedure adequate to that new narrative matter".
Alejandra Rodríguez Ballester, Clarín
"With a low profile and a very solid work, he has become one of the most personal authors of Argentinian literature in the last decades".
Cristian Vázquez, Letras Libres
PUBLISHED BY: Spanish ANAGRAMA / TUSQUETS / EDHASA / SEIX BARRAL | Arabic MASAA | Argentina ENERO / CLUB CINCO / HÍBRIDA EDITORA / ODELIA EDITORA | Czech Republic RUNA | France GALLIMARD | Greece OPERA | German UNIONSVERLAG | Italy PESSIME IDEE
By Federico Jeanmaire
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NOVEL, 2023
Mitre is a hallucinatory return journey between the Buenos Aires train stations of José León Suárez and Retiro on which everything one might imagine comes to pass: love,...
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NARRATIVE,2023
The Gang of Poles features an old kiosk owner known as Borges who regales with his theories about God and tales of his strange visions. In one of the latter he sees a gang of Poles, seven...
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NOVEL, 2022
Inner Life is a story of love and heartbreak that takes place across three days inside a hotel room in Oaxaca, Mexico, where a man and a woman have gone to take a decision about the future of...
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Darwin or the origin of old age
NOVEL, 2022
UNICAJA FERNANDO QUIÑONES NOVEL PRIZE A man gets out of a plane on the Galapagos Islands. He's a musician and has chosen to come to this mysterious, remote part of the world to spend his...
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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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