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Ana Mar\u00eda Shua<\/strong> was born in 1951 in Buenos Aires. While attending the National College of Buenos Aires, she published her first collection of poems, El sol y yo<\/em> (The Sun and I<\/em>, 1967), for which she received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She earned a degree in literature from the University of Buenos Aires. During her exile in France in the late 1970s, she worked for the Spanish magazine Cambio 16<\/em>.<\/p>\n Upon returning to Argentina, she published her first novel, Soy paciente<\/em> (I Am a Patient<\/em>, 1980), for which she received the Losada Publishing House Award. The following year, she published her first short story collection, Los d\u00edas de pesca<\/em> (Fishing Days<\/em>), followed by the novel that brought her fame, Los amores de Laurita<\/em> (Laurita\u2019s Loves<\/em>, 1984). That same year, she published the microfiction collection La sue\u00f1era<\/em> (The Dreamer<\/em>). This format became her trademark and earned her the reputation of the \u201cqueen of the shortest story.\u201d Since then, she has published the following collections of microfiction: Casa de Geishas<\/em> (Geisha House<\/em>, 1992), Bot\u00e1nica del caos<\/em> (Botany of Chaos<\/em>, 2000), Temporada de fantasmas<\/em> (Season of Ghosts<\/em>, 2004), Cazadores de letras<\/em> (Letter Hunters<\/em>, 2009), Fen\u00f3menos de circo<\/em> (Circus Phenomena<\/em>, 2011), Todos los universos posibles<\/em> (All Possible Universes<\/em>, 2017), La guerra<\/em> (The War<\/em>, 2019), and Microfantabulosas<\/em> (2021). A jury from Spain, Mexico, and Argentina awarded her the Ibero-American Juan Jos\u00e9 Arreola<\/em> Prize for Microfiction.<\/p>\n In addition to Fishing Days<\/em>, she has published three other short story collections: Viajando se conoce gente<\/em> (You Meet People While Travelling<\/em>, 1988), Como una buena madre<\/em> (Like a Good Mother<\/em>, 2001), and El \u00e1rbol de la mujer drag\u00f3n y otros cuentos<\/em> (The Dragon Woman Tree and Other Stories<\/em>, 2013). Her collected stories were published in 2009 in the book Que tengas una vida interesante<\/em> (May You Have an Interesting Life<\/em>).<\/p>\n In 1994, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to write the novel El libro de los recuerdos<\/em> (The Book of Memories<\/em>), about the life of a Jewish family in Argentina. She has worked as a journalist and screenwriter. She also writes books for children, in which humour and folklore intertwine.<\/p>\n Her novel La muerte como efecto secundario<\/em> (Death as a Side Effect<\/em>, 1997) was included among the 100 best novels published in the previous twenty-five years at the Spanish Language Congress in Cartagena. Since 2007, she has published the following novels: El peso de la tentaci\u00f3n<\/em> (The Weight of Temptation<\/em>), Contra el tiempo<\/em> (Against Time<\/em>, 2013), and Hija<\/em> (Daughter<\/em>, 2016).<\/p>\n Her works have been translated into more than 15 languages.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ana Mar\u00eda Shua was born in 1951 in Buenos Aires. While attending the National College of Buenos Aires, she published her first collection of poems, El sol y yo (The Sun and I, 1967), for which she received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. 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