Gabriela Bustelo

Gabriela Bustelo
Bustelo at Altea, summer of 2014
Born	(1962-05-18) May 18, 1962 Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Writer, Journalist.
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid
Period	1996-present
Genre	Dirty realism, Science fiction, Postmodern literature, Roman-a-clef
Literary movement	Generation X (Spain)

Gabriela Bustelo (Madrid, 1962) is a Spanish author, journalist and translator.

Biography

Included in the 1990 neorealist generation of Spanish novelists, Bustelo made her debut with Veo Veo (Anagrama, 1996), which placed her in the literary Generation X She shares with José Ángel Mañas, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria a sharp literary style influenced by commercial culture — advertising, pop music, film and television. Gabriela Bustelo is one of the few Spanish women who have written science fiction. Her second novel Planeta Hembra (RBA, 2001), located in New York, is a dystopia that envisaged —almost two decades ago— the underlying conflict between women and men that in the 21st century has become the MeToo Movement as a global battle of the sexes. La historia de siempre jamás (El Andén, 2007) portrays the immorality and shallowness of European political elites. In 1996 she began to write pieces on art and culture for publications such as Vogue and Gala (magazine), having penned political columns for fifteen years in national print media and digital newspapers. She contributed cultural articles to Colombian magazine "Arcadia" (revistaarcadia.com) from 2005 to 2015.

Translations

Bustelo has translated to Spanish the works of classics such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and well-known contemporaries including Raymond Chandler, Muriel Spark and Margaret Atwood.

See also

• Spanish Literature
• Science-fiction
• Translation
• Dystopia
• Neorealism (art)

References

• Ketz, Victoria L. (2021). "Biotech, Barcelo, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies in Spanish Science Fiction". A Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture. Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 265–291. ISBN 978-0-8265-0129-5.
• Rubin, Corey Michael (2013). Mapping a space-character interface in the narratives of Spain's Generation X: Scorn for a lost past in Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo. University of Iowa.
• Henseler, Christine (2011). "The Real World of Big Brother in Veo Veo by Gabriela Bustelo". Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age: Generation X Remixed. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 132–146. ISBN 978-0-2301-0291-0. Review in Spanish
• Odartey-Wellington, Dorothy (2008). "2 Urban Fictions/Popular Fictions: Gabriela Bustelo's Veo veo and Ismael Grasa's De Madrid al cielo". Contemporary Spanish Fiction: Generation X. Associated University Press. pp. 49–70. ISBN 978-0-87413-008-9.
• Bosse, Candice L. (2007). "4 Veo Veo: Consumption and the Dazzling Diva Image". Becoming and Consumption: The Contemporary Spanish Novel. Lexington Books. pp. 115–152. ISBN 978-0-7391-1631-9.
• Molinaro, Nina (2007). "12 Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo". In Henseler, Christine; Pope, Randolph D. (eds.). Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture. Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 203–215. ISBN 978-0-8265-1565-0.
• Henseler, Christine (2003). Contemporary Spanish Women's Narrative and the Publishing Industry. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02831-1.
• Labanyi, Jo (25 February 1999). "10 Narrative in culture, 1975–1996". In Gies, David T. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Cambridge University Press. pp. 154–156. ISBN 978-0-521-57429-7.