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Silvia Arazi

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Silvia Arazi

Argentina

Silvia Arazi (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a novelist, short story writer, poet, actress and singer. She has acted in many plays, films, comedies, musicals and television programs. As a writer, she formed part of the Abelardo Castillo workshop for several years. She was awarded the 1998 Premio Julio Cortázar de Narrativa Breve in Spain for her short stories Que temprano anochece....

Her novel La maestra de canto was translated into German and Dutch and it was adapted into cinema by Ariel Broitman, in 2013. She has published two poetry books: Claudine y la casa de piedra and La medianera, una novelita haiku (Second Prize of Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts) and La familia Cubierto, a book of children’s poetry. Her most recent novels are El niño de pocas palabras and La separación. She lives in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and in Colonia del Sacramento (Uruguay).

Photo by Michael Elliott Photography

A Mother’s Voice

By Silvia Arazi

Over coffee, my brother pulls up his chair and discreetly asks me if I’m going to write that book about our mother.

Translated from Spanish by Charlotte Coombe

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A Mother’s Voice