Leopoldo Brizuela
Leopoldo Brizuela ( born 1963 in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine writer.
Life
Brizuela began a literary studies at the Universidad de La Plata and made music with the folk singer Leda Valladares. In 1985 he received for his first novel, the "Premio de Novela Fortabat ". He was Poet in Residence at the "Banff Center For the Arts " in Canada and in the U.S. began a course of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in part. The " Fundación Gulbenkian de Lisboa " granted him a scholarship to Portugal stay. He was awarded the Argentine literary prize Premio Clarin 1999. In 2012, he received in Spain the Alfaguara Literature Prize for the novel Una misma noche.
Brizuela has translated works of Henry James, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty into Spanish.
Writings (selection )
- Tejiendo agua, novela, Emece, Buenos Aires, 1985
- Cantoras, wagers a Gerónima Sequeida y Leda Valladares; Torres Aguero editor, Buenos Aires, 1987
- Cantar la vida, Conversaciones con las cantantes Mercedes Sosa, Aimé Paine, Teresa Parodi, Leda Valladares y Gerónima Sequeida; El Ateneo, Buenos Aires, 1992
- Fado, poemas, La Marca, Buenos Aires, 1995
- Inglaterra. Una fábula, novela, Alfaguara, 1999 Inglaterra, from the Argentine Span. by Christian Hansen, Berlin: Berlin -Verl, 2004 ISBN 9783827000781.
- Night of Lisbon, from the Span. by Thomas Brovot, Berlin: Island Verl, 2010 ISBN 9783458174783.