María Fernanda Ampuero
María Fernanda Ampuero (born April 14, 1976, in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian writer and journalist. She supports feminism.[1][2]
Biography
[change | change source]Ampuero went to Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil. She studied with writers like Solange Rodríguez and Luis Carlos Mussó.[3] In 2004, she traveled to Spain to write about Ecuadorian migrants but stayed there. For ten years, she wrote about migrant life and economic struggles in magazines across Latin America and Europe. Some of these were put into her first two non-fiction books: Lo que aprendí en la peluquería (2011) and Permiso de residencia (2013).[4]
In 2012, she was named one of the 100 most influential Latin-Americans in Spain and got an award for best chronicle from the Organización Internacional de las Migraciones.[4]
Her first short story collection, Pelea de gallos (Cockfight), was published in 2018. It was praised by critics and listed as one of the top 10 books of 2018 by the Spanish edition of The New York Times. It also won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize.[5][6] It explores themes like violence, sexism, and social inequality in Latin America from women's perspectives.[7] The book was translated into English as Cockfight by Frances Riddle and published by The Feminist Press in 2020.[8]
Works
[change | change source]María Fernanda Ampuero's published works include:[2]
- Lo que aprendí en la peluquería (2011) - non-fiction
- Permiso de residencia (2013) - non-fiction
- Pelea de gallos (2018) - short-story collection, translated as Cockfight (2020) by Frances Riddle
- Sacrificios humanos (2021) - short-story collection
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "'Pelea de gallos' resume las obsesiones de María Fernanda Ampuero". www.ecuadortv.ec (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2020-03-21. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Flores, Gabriel. "María Fernanda Ampuero: 'El país necesita una Ley del Libro'". www.elcomercio.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
- ↑ Medina, Clara. "Los cuentos de Solange – La Revista". www.larevista.ec (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2014-09-09. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gómez Muñoz, Xavier. "María Fernanda Ampuero, la narrativa acuñada entre la migración y la crisis". www.eltelegrafo.com.ec (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2018-11-28. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
- ↑ "'Pelea de gallos' de la ecuatoriana María Fernanda Ampuero figura en la lista de los mejores libros de ficción de The New York Times". www.eluniverso.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-01-13. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
- ↑ Flores, Gabriel. "La literatura escrita por mujeres triunfó en los Premios Municipales 2018". www.elcomercio.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
- ↑ "María Fernanda Ampuero presenta libro de cuentos en Quito". www.lahora.com.ec (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2020-03-21. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
- ↑ Reents, Stephanie. "Cockfight – Kirkus Reviews". www.kirkusreviews.com. Archived from the original on 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2020-09-04.