María Cecilia Barbetta

María Cecilia Barbetta (born 8 July 1972 in Buenos Aires) is a German-language writer. Since 2011 she is a member of the PEN Centre Germany. In 2008, she won the Aspekte-Literaturpreis.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2018

Life

Barbetta studied German as a foreign language in her native Argentina. She came to Berlin in 1996 with a DAAD scholarship.[1] After completing her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 2000, she has been a freelance author (since 2005). In 2007 she was awarded the Alfred Döblin Fellowship by the Academy of Arts, Berlin,[2] and participated in the author's workshop Prosa of the Literary Colloquium in Berlin. Los Milagros Tailor's Shop was her first novel. She spent the year 2013 at Villa Massimo in Rome.[1] In 2014 she received scholarships from the Berlin Senate and the German Literature Fund Darmstadt.[3] She writes in German and has lived in Berlin since 1996.

Awards

Memberships

Works
  • Änderungsschneiderei Los Milagros. Fischer, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-10-004210-1. OCLC 665162339
  • Nachtleuchten. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397289-4.

References
  1. Austauschdienst, DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer. "Dr. María Cecilia Barbetta – DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst". www.daad.de. Archived from the original on 27 March 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  2. "Alfred-Döblin-Preis geht an Maria Cecilia Barbetta". news.ORF.at (in German). 20 May 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  3. "María Cecilia Barbetta". stadtsprachen magazin (in German). Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  4. "María Cecilia Barbetta – Autorenlexikon". literaturport.de (in German). Retrieved 20 November 2020.

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