Griselda Gambaro

Griselda Gambaro (born July 24, 1928) is an Argentine writer, whose novels, plays, short stories, story tales, essays and novels for teenagers often concern the political violence in her home country that would develop into the Dirty War. One recurring theme is the desaparecidos and the attempts to recover their bodies and memorialize them. Her novel Ganarse la muerte was banned by the government because of the obvious political message. Gambaro is Argentina's most celebrated playwright, and she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, as well as many other prizes.[1][2][3]

Selected works in English translation

Performance of Gambaro's plays in English

As Michelene Wandor drama critic for Time Out magazine wrote in her preview, "Considered one of Gambaro`s masterpieces the play belongs to, " the school of allegorical theatre of oppression, written in a society in which brutality and censorship suppress democracy and the imagination ... (the play) draws political parallels by reference to Nazi concentration camps...the theatre of the absurd and the horrors on inner nightmare".[5] The performance was warmly received by the critics of Spare Rib,.,[6][7] Ann Morey of BBC Latin American Service, now BBC Mundo,[8][9] and Tom Vaughan of The Morning Star,[10]

Selected works in Spanish

References

  1. ↑ Taylor, Diana (2003). Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform. Duke University Press. pp. 93–94. ISBN 978-0-8223-3240-4.
  2. ↑ Cypress, Sandra Messinger (1990). "Griselda Gambaro". In Diane E. Marting. Spanish American women writers: a bio-bibliographical source book. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 186–198. ISBN 978-0-313-25194-8.
  3. ↑ Smith, Verity (1997). Encyclopedia of Latin American literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 343–45. ISBN 978-1-884964-18-3.
  4. ↑ "The Camp production by Internationalist Theatre". Theatricalia.com. December 2016 – via theatricalia.com.
  5. ↑ Michelene Wandor (19 October 1981). "Preview of The Camp". Time Out (magazine) – via Internet Archive.
  6. ↑ Jenny Vaughan (February 1982). "Review of The Camp (El Campo)". Spare Rib (115): 46–47) – via British Library.
  7. ↑ Jenny Vaughan (Feb 1982). "El Campo (The Camp)". Spare Rib, Issue 115, pages 46-47 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ↑ Ann Morey (1981). "BBC Latin American review of The Camp". Griselda Gambaro The Camp – via Internet Archive.
  9. ↑ Ann Morey (26 October 1981). "BBC Latin American review of The Camp". BBC Latin American Service page 1 – via Internet Archive.
  10. ↑ Tom Vaughan (1981). "The Camp review ` Searing and of great power`". Morning Star – via Internet Archive.

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