Pola Oloixarac
Caracciolo in 2011
Caracciolo in 2011
BornPaola Caracciolo
(1977-09-13) September 13, 1977 (age 46)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation
  • Writer
  • journalist
  • translator
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
Years active2007–present

Paola Caracciolo,[1] better known by her pseudonym, Pola Oloixarac, is an Argentine writer, journalist, librettist and translator.

Biography

She studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. After finishing her post-graduate studies for Ph.D. at Stanford University[2] she has been living in Barcelona, Spain.

She has written for publications including The New York Times, The Telegraph, Rolling Stone, Folha de Sao Paulo, Revista Clarín, Etiqueta Negra, Quimera, Brando, América Economía, among other media. She is a founding editor of The Buenos Aires Review, a bilingual journal featuring contemporary literature in the Americas.[3]

Oloixarac has been invited to present her work and views on literature at universities such as Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, University of Toronto, University of Florida, Americas Society, and literary festivals including Jaipur Literature Festival, LIWRE in Finland, Hay Cartagena, FLIP Brasil, Miami Book Fair, Marathon des Mots in Toulouse, FIL Lima, Crossing Borders Antwerp/The Hague.

Her bestselling first novel, Savage Theories (Las teorías salvajes, 2008), has been translated in French, Dutch, Finnish, Italian and Portuguese. It was published in English translation by Soho Press in January 2017.[4] Savage Theories provoked critical and cultural controversy upon its release, with its subject matter and Oloixarac's public image coming under scrutiny.[5] According to Oloixarac, "[t]he book has sparked verbal violence and a sexist uproar precisely because it doesn't deal with the issues that are traditionally associated with 'women's literature,' but instead contains a sociological critique that is both intelligent and satirical, which are apparently traits solely reserved for men."[6]

Her third novel Mona (Spanish 2019, in English 2021) shows her as a satirist with some taste for provocation as her Guardian reviewer stated.[7]

Awards and honours

In 2010, she was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young Spanish Novelists.[8] In the same year, she was invited to participate in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is the recipient of a literary award from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes.[9]

In the UK she was awarded the 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award and is an Eccles fellow at the British Library.[10]

Selected bibliography

In English

References

  1. ^ [1], El Periodico Catalunya, April 2010
  2. ^ see Library of Congress database entry
  3. ^ "The Buenos Aires Review". The Buenos Aires Review. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  4. ^ Oloixarac, Pola (2017). Savage theories. Kesey, Roy. New York, NY: Soho Press. ISBN 9781616957353. OCLC 947074522.
  5. ^ "Los debates salvajes – Infonews | Un mundo, muchas voces". Elargentino.com. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 18 April 2009. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  6. ^ "ARGENTINA: Women Writers Who Break the Mould – IPS". Ipsnews.net. 11 July 2009. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  7. ^ Doyle, Rob (31 January 2022). "Mona by Pola Oloixarac review – enjoyable if flawed satire". theguardian.com. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  8. ^ Alison Flood (1 October 2010). "Granta names 'best young Spanish-language novelists' | Books | guardian.co.uk". London: Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  9. ^ "2010 Resident Participants". The International Writing Program.
  10. ^ "author's profile of Pola Oloixarac at UK publisher Serpent's Tail". serpentstail.com. Retrieved 31 January 2022.

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