Tulane University

Contact Info
maleman@tulane.edu

Department Affiliation
Latin American Studies

Degrees

*PhD, Tulane University, Spanish & Portuguese, 2003
*Magíster en Letras Latinoamericanas, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, 1996
*Diploma of English Studies, Cambridge University, Translations Degree: Espanol-Inglés & Inglés-Espanol, 1991

Bio

Ecuadorian writer Gabriela Alemán is one of the premier voices in Latin American Literature today. Best known for her fiction, she has published 9 collections of short stories, 3 novels, 1 play, and 1 essay collection. Her most recent releases are the English translation of her 2007 novel Poso Wells and the Spanish-language novel Humo, which won the Premio Joaquín Gallegos Lara for fiction in Ecuador in 2017. The exceptional creativity of Alemán’s writing has garnered her international acclaim, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a place among the Bogotá39, the 2007 Hay Festivals list of the best 39 Latin American writers under the age of 39. In addition to her writing, Alemán has worked as a journalist, editor, researcher and translator, and has played professional women‘€™s basketball. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Studies from Cambridge University, a Masters in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, and a Ph.D. in Film Studies from Tulane, where her dissertation was supervised by Dr. Ana López. Now on the faculty of Universidad de San Francisco in Quito, she was a Greenleaf Scholar in Residence in the spring of 2019 at the Stone Center and returns this fall to continue the Latin American Writers Series at Tulane.

Selected Fiction

2017. Humo, Ed. Penguin Random House, Colombia.

2014. La muerte silba un blues, Ed. Penguin Random House, Colombia.

2014. Cusco, espejo de cosmografías, Antología del Relato Iberoamericano, Ed. Karina Pacheco Medrano, Cusco.

2014. Sólo cuento, Ed. Mayra Santos-Febres, UNAM, México D.F.

2013. Prisión de ámbar, Ed. Yiyi Jambo Cartonera, Paraguay (cuento).

2013. Amor y desamor en la Mitad del Mundo, Muestra del Cuento Ecuatoriano Contemporáneo, Ed. Arte y Literatura, La Habana.

2013. Utópica Penumbra, Antología de literatura fantástica ecuatoriana, Colección Sur Editores, La Habana.

2013. Utópica Penumbra, Antología de literatura fantástica ecuatoriana, Campana de Lectura Eugenio Espejo, Quito.

2011. Ecuador de Feria, Ed. Raúl Vallejo, Ed. Planeta , Bogotá.

2011. Cinco metros de cuentos perversos, Ed. Textofilia, México, 2011.

2010. Álbum de Familia, Ed. Estruendomudo, Lima, Perú.