Gabriela is the granddaughter of Hugo Alemán, one of his generation’s best-known poets and a founder of Ecuador’s Socialist Party. Mary Ellen Fieweger: If the Alemán family is any indication, writing would seem to be an autosomal recessive disease, i.e., one that affects every other generation. Here is a conversation with Alemán and the two translators of these sometimes whimsical, sometimes terrifying portraits. It is now followed by the story collection Family Album, which teases tropes of hardboiled detective fiction, satire, and adventure narratives to recast the discussion of Ecuadorian national identity. From a pair of deep-sea divers looking for sunken treasure in the Galápagos Archipelago, to a hired gun accompanying a group of missionaries into the territory of the indigenous people of the Amazon, this series of cracked “family portraits” serves up a cast of picaresque heroes and anti-heroes in stories that sneak up on a reader before they know what’s happened. Her first book translated into English, Poso Wells, was published in 2018 by City Lights Books. She has also played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a waitress, administrator, translator, radio scriptwriter, and teacher. Gabriela Alemán is an Ecuadorian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, born in 1969 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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