Sergio Chejfec

Sergio Chejfec was born in the year 1956 in Buenos Aires. He is an argentine Jewish writer. From the year 1990 to the year 2005, Sergio Chejfec resided in Venezuela and it was there that he published his work called Nueva Sociedad, which was a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. Sergio Chejfec is currently residing in New York City of the United States and he is teaching in the creative writing program in the Spanish language at the New York University.

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Sergio Chejfec has authored novels, essays and a collection of poetry. His works includes Lentabiografíain the year 1990, Los planetasin the year 1999, Boca de loboin the year 2000, Los incompletosin the year 2004, Mis dos mundosin the year 2008, and La experienciadramáticain the year 2012.

Awards and honors

Ø  2013 Best Translated Book Award, shortlist, The Planets

Bibliography

Ø  Lentabiografía. Buenos Aires: Puntosur, 1990.

Ø  Moral. Buenos Aires: Puntosur, 1990.

Ø  El aire. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1992.

Ø  Cinco. Saint-Nazaire (France): M.E.E.T., 1996.

Ø  El llamado de la especie. Rosario (Argentina): Beatriz Viterbo, 1997.

Ø  Los planetas. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1999.

Ø  Boca de lobo. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2000.

Ø  Trespoemas y unamerced, in Diario de Poesía 62 (2002), Buenos Aires.

Ø  Gallos y huesos. Buenos Aires: Santiago Arcos, 2003.

Ø  Los incompletos. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2004.

Ø  El puntovacilante. Buenos Aires: Norma, 2005.

Ø  Baroni: unviaje. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2007.

Ø  Mis dos mundos. Barcelona: Candaya, 2008.

Ø  SobreGiannuzzi. Buenos Aires: bajo la luna, 2010.

Ø  La experienciadramática. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2012.

Ø  Hacia la ciudad eléctrica. La Plata, Argentina: El Broche, 2012.

Ø  Modolinterna. Buenos Aires: Editorial Entropía, 2013.

English translations

Ø  My Two Worlds (Open Letter, 2011)

Ø  The Planets (Open Letter, 2012)

Ø  The Dark (Open Letter, 2013)