Clara Obligado

Clara Obligado was born in 1950 in Buenos Aires and has lived in Madrid since 1976, where she writes and teaches creative writing workshops. Her awards include the Lumen Prize for her novel La hija de Marx [Marx's Daughter] (1996), the Juan March Cencillo Short Novel Prize for Petrarca para viajeros [Petrarch for Travelers] (2015), and the Setenil Award for El libro de los viajes equivocados [The Book of Mistaken Journeys] (2011). Obligado's work has been translated into several languages. She has never lost contact with her country of origin, where her work is published by various publishing houses.