
OFFICIAL PAGE OF ANGÉLICA GORODISCHER
Argentine writer
"We will not die as long as there is a reader who opens our book"
Carlos Fuentes
ABOUT
Who is Angélica Gorodischer?
From a very young age she moved with her parents to the city of Rosario, where she has lived ever since. Her parents, the merchant Fernando Félix Arcal and the poet Angélica de Arcal, had married in 1924 and had moved from Rosario to Buenos Aires. In 1936 the family returned to Rosario. Surrounded by books, as a child she already wanted to be a writer.
Following her marriage to the architect Sujer Gorodischer in 1948, she chose her surname as a pseudonym, under which she would appear as a literary author. She studied at the Normal School No. 2 of Professors in Rosario and she began to pursue a career at the University of Philosophy and Letters of the National University of the Litoral, which did not finish.
In 1964 she won a contest for the "Vea y Lea" magazine with the detective story "En verano, a la siesta y con Martina". In 1988 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, thanks to which she participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 1991, also with a Fulbright scholarship, she taught at the University of Northern Colorado.
From 1967 to 2022, she was a jury member of various literary awards in Argentina and other countries. She lectured more than 350 lectures, especially on fantasy literature, on feminine writing and has been translated into English, French, German and is about to be translated into Italian and Greek. She is considered one of the three most important female voices in science fiction in Latin America.
Angélica passed away in her dear Rosario on february 5, 2022.
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BOOKS
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TRANSLATIONS
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AWARDS
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1964: Vea y Lea Award, third national contest of police stories
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1965: Order Club Award
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1984: Konex Award - Merit Diploma
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1984: Más Allá Award
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1984: Poblet Award
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1984-85: Emecé Award
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1985: Siegfried Radaelli Award, The XIII Club
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1986: Gigamesh Award
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1994: Konex Platinum Award
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1997: Dignidad Award of the Human Rights's Permanent Assembly
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1998: SADE Bullrich Award for the best women's novel in a triennium
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2000: Esteban Echeverría's Award (narrative)
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2007: ILCH Award, California, USA, for her complete work
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2007: Illustrious Citizen of Rosario
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2011: World Fantasy's Lifetime Achievement Award, USA
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2012: Culture's Outstanding Personality of the City of Buenos Aires
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2014: Konex Award - Career Special Mention
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2017: Honoris Causa Doctorate from the National University of Cuyo
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2018: Prix Imaginales - catégorie nouvelle by Kalpa Impérial

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"They could have forgotten it, he just didn't allow it to be forgotten."
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"The heart of a young man has more impetus for life and love and for sickness and hatred."