Compared to Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, Selva Almada is considered one of the most powerful  voices of contemporary Argentinian and  Latin American Literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectuals of the region.

She has been finalist of the Rodolfo Walsh Award (Spain) with her nonfiction work Chicas muertas (2014) and finalist of the Tigre Juan Award (Spain) with her novel Ladrilleros.  Her first novel, El viento que arrasa,  won the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s 2019  First Book Award.

Her work has been translated into French, English, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norway, and Turkish.

Almada is a major Latin American Literary  force. Shelf Awareness

One of the fundamental female writers of the XXI century. Cine y Literatura

In her realism of magical repercussions, Onetti and the Borges of El Sur come together with the inflamed shadow of Horacio Quiroga, but the quality and resolve of her prose produce a power of suggestion that is unique to Selva Almada.  Francisco Solano, El País, Spain

What seems fantastical soon turns hyper realistic, a bit like in the stories of Rulfo or Sara Gallardo. Oliverio Coelho, La Nación, Argentina

Original and full of novelty, Selva Almada has seduced with a style which is both poetic and realistic. Her literature raises your hair without reaching the full sting of horror. Cristian Alarcón. Babelia El País, Spain

Selva Almada moves about on a map of fiction: this is not urban literature, it is not literature about young people, nor about outsiders, nor about people who spend their time sniffing coke. It is literature of the provinces like that of Carson McCullers, for example. Regional in contrast with global cultures but not a fiction of manners. Just the opposite of much urban fiction, which is literature of manners without being regional. Beatriz Sarlo, Diario Perfil

Selva Almada reinvents the imaginative rural world of a country (…) She is an author gifted with very uncommon power and sensitivity.  Rolling Stone Magazine

A literary language of enormous elegance and precision. Soledad Platero, El País, Uruguay

One of the great renovators of the Spanish American novel. El Cultural

As it has already been said somewhere else, she is not only a promise of Argentinian literature but a genius of Hispanic American fiction.  La tormenta en un vaso, Blog

Works

Children’s Literature

Other books by the same author

El mono en el remolino. Notes about the fiming of the movie Zama by Lucrecia Martel,2017
El viento que arrasa. Novel, 2012
Una chica de provincia. Short stories, 2007
Niños. Short stories, 2005
Mal de muñecas. Poems, 2003