Ariana Harwicz was born in Buenos Aires in 1977 and has been living in the countryside in France since 2007. Her first novel, Matate, amor (2012), was published in English in 2017 under the title Die, My Love. A finalist for the First Book Award by the EIBF in 2017, the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Man Booker International in 2018, and the BTBA in 2020, Matate, amor has been adapted for the theater and in 2024 will be made into a film by Martin Scorsese, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence. Her fourth novel, Degenerado, was published by Anagrama in 2019. Her works have been adapted for the theater in various countries in Latin America and Europe. In 2021 she published Desertar, a book of conversations about translation and desertion of the mother tongue written together with Mikaël Gómez Guthart. Her stories appear in media such as Harper's, Granta, Letras Libres, Babelia, The White Review, Brick, Paris Review, The New Yorker, La Quinzaine littéraire, Quimera, and The Guardian, and in various anthologies. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2022 Anagrama compiled her first three novels in a volume titled Trilogía de la pasión. In 2023 she published El ruido de una época, an essay about literary Evil and contemporary extortions. She has also written the libretto for the opera Dementia, which will premiere at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in the 2025 season. Her most recent work is Perder el juicio.
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