Lucrecia Zappi

(Argentina, 1972)

Brazilian writer, journalist and translator. Her childhood and adolescence were spent between São Paulo and Mexico City.
She is the author of three novels:  Onça Preta (Benvira, 2013), Acre (Todavía, 2017) and Degelo (Todavía, 2023) -, translated into Spanish (La Huerta Grande, Spain). Acre was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in the novel category, the most prestigious in Brazil.
With his first book, Mil-folhas (Cosac Naify, 2009), a gastronomic journey through the history of sweets, won the Bologna Ragazzi International Prize in 2011. 
She studied visual arts at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Back in Brazil, she worked for Folha de S. Paulo for years, covering mainly contemporary art topics. She currently writes a monthly column for this newspaper. 
She lives in New York, where she earned a master's degree in creative writing at New York University. She is working on her fourth novel.

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Destinação Brazil

Tamara Silva Bernaschina

(Uruguay, 2000)

I was born in the city of Minas, in the mountains of Uruguay, in the year 2000. I grew up between my house and my grandparents' houses. When I learned to read and write, about the age of six, I started to imagine better. I wrote down my first stories at that time. I used to read them to my sister. At the age of fifteen I moved to the countryside, in Aiguá, a city in the Department of Maldonado. Chester, Mimi, Diana and Linda live there, happy dogs. I am a student of the Bachelor of Arts of the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences in Montevideo.

I am the author of the book of short stories Desastres naturales, my debut feature, published last year by Estuario editora, in Uruguay. This short story won two Bartolomé Hidalgo awards for Narrative and Revelation. That book took me to places I had never been before, and brought me closer to other authors I admire. Many joys. I also wrote Temporada de ballenas, a novel that was published in Uruguay last September and received an honorable mention in the Juan Carlos Onetti literary contest. This year, the Mexican publishing house Paraíso Perdido published Desastres naturales, and that is a reason for immense emotion. I've only been to Mexico twice, and I love it more and more.

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Annual International Storytellers Conference
National Awards

Carlos Aletto

(Argentina, 1967)

Nací en Mar del Plata en 1967, una ciudad que el viento asentó junto al mar y que ha servido de escenario para algunas de mis ficciones. Soy escritor y licenciado en letras.

Entre mis obras destaco Once segundos, una novela donde el tiempo se detiene en el segundo gol de Maradona a los ingleses, y Anatomía de la melancolía, una mirada íntima sobre el Renacimiento. En los cuentos de Antes de perder, exploro el final de la infancia.

Fui editor de la revista Unicornio, un caballo con suerte, y director del Suplemento Literario Télam, desde donde tuve la oportunidad de dar visibilidad a numerosas obras argentinas.

En 2008, el jurado me destacó por unanimidad entre 6,660 participantes, otorgándome el primer lugar en el Concurso de Cuento Clarín. En 2014 obtuve el Primer Premio Municipal de Literatura de Buenos Aires.

Como periodista despliego mi mirada crítica en medios de renombre. En Clarín escribo la columna 'Vidas para leer' de la revista Viva. En Página/12 colaboro con notas en Radar Libros, destacando historias sobre libros y personajes.

Además de escritor y periodista, soy padre de tres hijos: Lorenzo, Santino y Oliverio, nombres que, ¿quién sabe?, algún día tal vez protagonizarán uno de mis cuentos, o ya lo hacen en la historia que vivo a diario.

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Annual International Storytellers Conference