Lola Copacabana
Inés Gallo de Urioste (born Buenos Aires, 1980), better known by her pseudonym Lola Copacabana or Lolita Copacabana, is an Argentine writer, translator and editor.
Life
[edit]She was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. She became known through her blog JustLola, which began in 2003 and was written in a format similar to a traditional newspaper: small paragraphs that narrated different aspects of her life, from her fascination with Simone de Beauvoir to her personal relationships. The publisher Sudamericana proposed to publish these as a book, which appeared under the title Buena leche (Good milk: diaries of a (not so) formal young woman).[1] The stories were written while she was between the ages of 19 and 23.[2]
In addition to continuing her blog for ten years, she anthologized and translated into River Plate Spanish the volume Alt-lit: literatura norteamericana actual,[3] working in collaboration with Hernán Vanoli. This 2014 volume explored the concept of alternative literature, especially as mediated through the culture and practices of the Internet. She also translated a book of "subversive" short stories by the American writer Paula Bomer titled Baby and other Stories (Bebé y otros cuentos).[2]
With Vanoli, she also founded the publishing house Momofuku, which published her first novel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Crimen y castigo en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (also published in Spain in 2019).
In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the best young Latin American authors writing today.[4] The others included Samanta Schweblin, the Brazilian Natalia Borges Polesso, María José Caro from Peru, Liliana Colanzi from Bolivia, Gabriela Jauregui and Copacabana.[5]
As of 2022 she was still one of the managers of the Momofuku publishing company and she intended to study Creative Writing at the University of Iowa.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Copacabana, Lola (2006). Buena leche: diarios de una joven (no tan) formal (in Spanish). Sudamericana. ISBN 978-950-07-2770-9.
- ^ a b c "Lola COPACABANA - Hay Festival". www.hayfestival.com. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
- ^ Copacabana, Lolita (2015). Alt Lit. Literatura Norteamericana Actual (in Spanish). Interzona. ISBN 978-987-1920-30-3.
- ^ "Interview". Archived from the original on 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
- ^ de 2017, 7 de Mayo. "Los 39 jóvenes escritores latinoamericanos elegidos como los mejores del año". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-12-05.
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