Ariel Magnus

Ariel Magnus ( born October 16, 1975 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine writer and translator with German ancestors.

Life

Ariel Magnus grew up in Buenos Aires, where he attended a German school. With a grant from the Friedrich- Ebert- Foundation, he studied from 1999 to 2005 in Heidelberg and Berlin Romance Languages ​​and Philosophy. At the Humboldt University of Berlin, he worked part-time at the Department of Spanish Literature. Magnus is now living as a writer and literary translator in Buenos Aires.

Creation

Magnus wrote for the Colombian men magazine SoHo and also moved in Colombia Gatopardo magazine and the supplement radar from the newspaper Página/12. He currently writes regularly for the supplement El Ángel of the Mexican newspaper La Reforma and occasionally for the Argentinean cultural magazine La mujer de mi vida and the German taz.

He has published five books so far, of which the novel Un chino en bicicleta is the most successful. For this work, in which it comes to Chinese immigrants in Argentina, he was awarded the International Prize for Literature La otra Orilla 2007. It has been translated into numerous languages. Furthermore, Magnus received for his novel Muñecas ( " Dolls " ) the Premio Iberoamericano Juan de Castellanos de novela breve.

Works

• Sandra, Emece Editores, 2005
• La abuela, Planeta, 2006
• Un chino en bicicleta, Norma, 2007 A Chinese man on a bicycle. Novel. German by Silke Kleemann. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04195-8