Biography & True Stories
Crónicas completas (Full Chronicles)
by Hebe Uhart
Description
In Hebe Uhart’s chronicles, more than landscapes and history, the author captures speech. These journeys, mostly intimate, are a search for ways of speaking. Hebe Uhart’s work as a collector of linguistic expressions is a fortunate and important contribution, since the woman who pays attention to language is not a collector of curiosities, she is a writer. Her fascination for language is not limited to spoken language; as she tours cities and towns, she notes down stores’ names, advertisements and graffiti, a routine repeated in almost every story. She is also interested in all the oral expressions that are intimately related to literature, such as proverbs. Hebe Uhart is voracious, but she offers all this information with great kindness, careful not to overwhelm readers, sharing with them facts which, however obvious, may have never caught their attention. The political stance behind these chronicles is quite clear: Latin American anchorage, stories that have been ignored or frowned upon —local history, everyday knowledge, linguistic expressions— and, one of her favorite subjects, Indigenous peoples on the continent.
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A selection of these chronicles has been published in English (Archipelago Books) and will soon be published in Portugese (Roça Nova editora)
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Author Biography
Born in Moreno, province of Buenos Aires, Hebe Uhart (1936-2018) studied Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. She worked as a teacher and contributed with the cultural supplement of El País newspaper from Montevideo. She wrote travel notes and chronicles featuring different characters and situations. Adriana Hidalgo editora has published Del cielo a casa (From Heaven to Home) (2003), Turistas (Tourists) (2008) and the travel chronicles Viajera crónica (Chronic Traveler) (2011), Visto y oído (Heard and Seen) (2012), Desde la Patagonia a México (From Patagonia to Mexico) (2015), De aquí para allá (Here and There) (2016), and Animales (Animals) (2017). In 2018, Adriana Hidalgo editora started a project to publish the author’s complete work, which included the publication of Novelas completas (Full novels), Cuentos completos (Full stories), and Crónicas completas (Full Chronicles). In addition, three unpublished novels are included in El amor es una cosa extraña (Love is a Weird Thing). In 2017, Hebe Uhart received the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Prize for her literary career. Several selections of her stories and chronicles have been translated into English and Portuguese.
Adriana Hidalgo editora
Adriana Hidalgo editora is one of the most prestigious publishing houses in Argentina, with great recognition in Latin America and Spain. Founded in 1999, it specializes in literature, essays, philosophy, art and illustrated books. It publishes both argentine and translated authors. Its catalogue currently holds more than 400 titles and it stands out for its literary profile and for the constant discovery of new authors. In 2009, and with our publishing house’s 10th year’s anniversary, Pípala was created: an illustrated book’s imprint of Adriana Hidalgo editora Pípala is now an independent imprint for illustrated books for both children and adults, based on a powerful catalogue that is in permanent development. It publishes translated works from all over the world (Corea, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, etc.) as well as original works in Spanish from Latin American and Spanish writers and illustrators.
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- Publisher Adriana Hidalgo editora
- Publication Date March 2020
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789874159960
- Publication Country or regionArgentina
- FormatPaperback
- Pages896
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions15x23 cm
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