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Guillermo Saavedra

Contributor

Guillermo Saavedra

Guillermo Saavedra (Buenos Aires, 1960) is a poet, editor, literary and theater critic, and cultural journalist. His books include the poetry collections Caracol (Último Reino, 1989), Tentativas sobre Cage (La Marca, 1995), El velador (Bajo la Luna, 1998) and La voz inútil (Bajo la Luna, 2003); a collection of interviews with Argentine writers, La curiosidad impertinente (Beatriz Viterbo, 1993); and the anthologies Cuentos de historia argentina (Alfaguara, 1998), La pena del aire (Mondadori, 2000), Cuentos escogidos de Andrés Rivera (Alfaguara, 2000), Mi cuento favorito (Alfaguara, 2000), Cuentos de escritoras argentinas (Alfaguara, 2001), four volumes in the series Vamos a leer published by the Secretariat of National Culture, and El placer rebelde, on the fiction of Luisa Valenzuela (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003). He was a Guggenheim fellow in 2001. His poetry collection Del tomate will be published this year, and he is working on three other poetry books, Pescado frito, Desocupado, and El corredor de fondo, as well as a collection of critical essays, Sueños ajenos, vicios propios. He lives in Buenos Aires, where he is the director of publications of the Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, director of the cultural journal Las ranas, and an editor at Editorial Losada.

Articles by Guillermo Saavedra

On the Tomato
By Guillermo Saavedra
A salad can be an anthem to joy
Translated from Spanish by Cindy Schuster
Time Out for Blackberries
By Guillermo Saavedra
Illustrious tyranny of the peach:
Translated from Spanish by Michele McKay Aynesworth
Multilingual
Runaway Country
By Guillermo Saavedra
Fire? / No: light.
Translated from Spanish by Katie King
Multilingual