Valeria Tentoni
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Valeria Tentoni

Argentina | 1985
She is the editor of Eterna Cadencia Blog, from where she also hosts the podcast ‘Máquinas de escribir’. She directed the Audioteca de poesía contemporánea (audio library of contemporary poetry).
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Her articles and chronicles have been published in Diario Clarín, and the Acción, Coolt, Santiago and Dossier magazines, as well as the Times Literary Supplement.

She has received the First Prize for Poetry from Editorial Ruinas Circulares (2011) and the First Prize in the Latin American Short Story Contest Marta Brunet, awarded by Universidad de Chile (2022).

The Cuatrogatos Foundation for children’s and young adult literature has recommended her book Viaje al fondo del río in 2023, and ALIJA awarded a mention in the illustrated poetry category for ¡Quién iba a decir! in 2025.

 

Condensed and explosive, Tentoni’s prose is darkly poetic. Cynthia Rimsky, Leteo

Perhaps it is her ability to move between prose and poetry that allows Valeria Tentoni to resort to metaphor with such a natural ease. Ángel Soto, Milenio

Reading Valeria Tentoni is one of the most beautiful ways to raise the critical sense that is nowadays so reviled, so unusual and so accommodating. Rodolfo Mendoza, Criticismo

Valeria takes a risk and bets on intelligent readers, bets on emotion and active reading, bets on children, teenagers and young adults and invites them to get out of a capsule they don’t really need. Eldys Baratute, Revista Dossier

Works

Furia diamante. Short stories, 2015, 2024
El color favorito. Essay, 2023
El sistema del silencio. Short stories, 2012

Poetry

Emociones lentas. Poetry, 2023
Pirámide. Poetry, 2023, 2025
Piedras preciosas. Poetry, 2018, 2020
Hologramas. Poetry, 2018
Antitierra. Poetry, 2014, 2021
Ajuar. Poetry, 2011
Batalla sonora. Poetry, 2009

Children’s literature

Dos trenes, un tren. 2025
¡Quién iba a decir! 2024
Cabeza abajo. 2024
Viaje al fondo del río. 2021