Liliana Heker

Liliana Heker ( born February 9, 1943 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine journalist and writer.

Heker began writing as a teenager. When in 1960 the writer Abelardo Castillo met, this was of their texts so enthusiastic that he immediately a job in the editorial department of his literary magazine " El grillo de papel " offered her.

The following year Heker joined the editorial board of the journal " El escarabajo de oro " and remained there until 1974. Between 1977 and 1986 she worked as an editor of the magazine " El Ornitorrinco ". In addition to her journalistic work with which they influenced the last decades of the Argentine literary scene, it also presented significant - albeit sometimes controversial - own literary works before.

Reception

Again and again themed Heker in their literary and journalistic works of political life in their homeland. In her novel " El fin de historia " she manage the balancing act of different political positions during the dictatorship. The disappearance of many people during the process of national reorganization it addresses in a complex dispute and leaves also variously the henchmen of the regime to speak.

Your collection of essays " Las hermanas de Shakespeare " is generally deal with the situation writing women. The great challenge of a writer sees Heker in the permanent confrontation and reflection with themselves and their gender (quote: "If a woman is able to look down to the bottom of herself, she is also able to recognize the men and to empathize with others, as it has done, for example, Katherine Mansfield. A narrator, who accepted their own malevolence, its contradictions and its special relationship to her body is able to themselves and other women and men encounter ").

Honors

Works (selection)

• Acuario. Editorial América, Buenos Aires 1972.
• Los bordes de lo real.
• El fin de la historia. Novela. Alfaguara, Buenos Aires 2004, ISBN 987-1106-77-7.
• Las hermanas de Shakespeare. Editorial Aguilar, Buenos Aires 1999.
• El partido rubado.
• Los que la vieron zarza.
• Zona de clivaje. Novela. Legasa, Buenos Aires 1990.