All that grows: nature and writing chronicles the author's upbringing in Argentina, her exile to Spain, and her resulting reconciliation of place, memory, loss, and growth. Through botanical and natural metaphors as well as frank recollection of events, the book explores the passage of time across different hemispheres and dialects. As the author navigates shifts in landscape and language, her writing becomes a shelter and a form of time travel, mirroring the natural world's ability to invent and reinvent itself.
This publication is part of X Artists' Books' X Topics (XT) series, a collection of books focused on the writing and ideas of marginalized voices.
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.
Edited by Gwen Davis-Barrios, Alexandra Grant, Nicole Hervás Ibañez.
Foreword by Nicole Hervás Ibañez; introduction and interview by Erica Durante.
Translated from the Spanish by Fiona Mackintosh (original title:
Todo lo que crece: naturaleza y escritura, Páginas de Espuma, 2021).
Graphic design: Dana Collins (cover art: Julieta Obligado and Alejandro Fernández Banegas).
