Gabriela Bustelo
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Gabriela Bustelo | |
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![]() Bustelo at Altea, summer of 2014 | |
Born | Madrid, Spain | May 18, 1962
Occupation | Writer, Journalist. |
Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
Period | 1996-present |
Genre | Dirty realism, Science fiction, Postmodern literature |
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 crisp style visibly 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 for publications such as Vogue and Gala (magazine), having penned political columns for a decade at newspapers La Razón and La Gaceta. After signing from 2015 to 2017 a weekly tribune for the Spanish digital newspaper "Vozpópuli" (vozpopuli.com) and a weekly op-ed column in English for the digital newspaper "The Objective" (theobjective.com), Bustelo has been writing a weekly op-ed column for "Cuarto Poder" (cuartopoder.com) since September 2017. She has contributed cultural articles to Colombian magazine "Arcadia" (revistaarcadia.com) since 2005.
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
References
- "Mapping a space-character interface in the narratives of Spain's Generation X: Scorn for a lost past in Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo", Corey Michael Rubin, University of Iowa, 2013 [1]
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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