Claudia Piñeiro

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Claudia Piñeiro

Piñeiro at the International Book Fair of Santiago (2015).

Personal information

Birth 10 de abril de 1960 (63 años)1

Nationality Argentina

Family

Couple Ricardo Gil Lavedra2

Education

Education University of Buenos Aires

Professional information

Occupation public accountant, writer and journalist

Genres novel, journalism, theater

Notable works Elena knows

Distinctions Clarín Prize for Novel (2005)

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Claudia Piñeiro in 2018

Index

1Biography
2Works
o2.1Novels
o2.2Children's literature
o2.3Tales
o2.4Theater
3Awards
4References
5External links

Biography[edit]
In 1978, after finishing his secondary studies at the San José College of Burzaco, he decides
to enroll in the Sociology program at UBA, but the last civic-military dictatorship
Argentina (established as a corollary of the coup d'état perpetrated on March 24, 1976)
had closed the entry to the races he considered 'suspicious'. That is why he takes the
examen de ingreso a la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (de la misma universidad) y al
Profesorado de Matemática. Entra en Ciencias Económicas, en la carrera de Contadora Pública.3
In 1983, she graduated as an accountant from the University of Buenos Aires, a profession she practices during
ten years before dedicating himself to writing.
His first published novel was a young adult one, A Thief Among Us, in 2004—also the year of
his first theatrical premiere: How Much is a Refrigerator—, which won the award the following year that
was granted by the NormadeColombia Editorial Group, although the first one written dates back to 1991: The
secret of the blondes, which was not published despite having finished among the top ten finalists
of the Premio La Sonrisa Vertical (previously, he had published another children's book, Serafín, the
writer and the witch, in 2000, but it can hardly be classified as a novel.4In 2005, he/she obtained
likewise the Clarín Prize for Novel for The Widows of Thursdays,5distinction to which they have
followed others.
Four years later, director Marcelo Piñeyro made a film adaptation of The Widows.
of the Thursdays with the same name. Shortly after, Alejandro Doria (1936-2009) began the
pre-production of the film based on the novel by PiñeroTuya,6but his unexpected death made him
it prevented it from being carried out; in 2011 Piñeiro stated that an adaptation of that novel could be filmed in
Germany.7The film was finally shot and released in 2015 with direction and adaptation.
by screenplay of Edgardo González Amery the leads of Juanita Viale, Jorge Marraley, and Andrea
Pietra. The adaptation is an almost literal version of the novel.

Piñeiro signs his books alongside the Chilean writer Carla Guelfenbein
In 2011, Piñeiro published Betibú, which was adapted to the big screen in 2014, directed by Miguel.
Cohany starring Mercedes Morán, Daniel Fanego, and Alberto Ammann.8
The movie The Cracks of Jara, based on its eponymous novel, was released in 2018. This
The co-production of Argentina and Spain was directed by Nicolás Gil Lavedra. The script was co-written
by Gil and the main characters are played by Oscar Martínez and Joaquín Furriel.9
Piñero's works have been translated into several languages.
In an interview published in the Ñ magazine of the Clarín newspaper in 2005, how he started his
writing career
In 1991, I was working as an administrative manager at a company that had a branch in São Paulo. I had to
traveling to audit the screws used to make some air compressors; a tremendously
bored. I was on the plane, I suppose I was crying, and I read in a very small box in the newspaper the call for competition
from 'The Vertical Smile', the contest of the Tusquets publishing house. I didn't even know it was a literature competition.
erotic. The only thing I thought was: 'I'll go back and request vacation time and write a novel about this, because if not, I'm going to leave'
break'. The novel was called The Secret of the Blondes and it was among the top ten finalists, although it was never published. I realized
the fact that writing was something too powerful and, although I always wrote, I could no longer postpone it. It appeared like a
lifebuoys that were thrown to me at that moment.
Claudia Piñeiro

Claudia Piñeiro at the Buenos Aires Book Fair

Regarding her novel 'A Small Luck', she said in an interview in July 2015 to Ciudad Equis,
La Voz del Interior, which she would set as the common denominator of her works is suspense. 10
I like to drive it, leading the reader to accompany me in this story that I want to tell. It is a kind of
homage to oral storytelling. There are people who tell something more or less interesting, and one listens attentively, hoping that
I reached the end. I like that kind of story, where one tells a story and the other waits for you to continue. It can happen in a
police, or, also, in a psychological novel like this. I like to dose the information, using a language of
in a certain way, so that the other wants to accompany me in that story I am telling.
Claudia Piñeiro

In October 2018, he presented his book Who Knocks, which brings together a collection of stories that, "like
brief everyday scenes, address situations in which we can all feel recognized.
Some are rarities that go unnoticed, small obsessions that play their game in the midst
from the routine of everyday life; others may lead to crime, but they always nest in the most secret of
the people11
In 2022, he published The Time of the Flies, a novel in which he resumes the character of Ines.
protagonist of Yours, in a criminal plot narrative that denounces social injustices,
especially those that concern women.12
Write a column titled 'Thursdays with Claudia Piñeiro' in the Literary Supplement
Télam from the news agency of the same name.
Piñeiro has three children. He has publicly intervened in support of the right to abortion.13141516
In 2020, she participated in the documentary miniseries Carmel: Who Killed María Marta?, analyzing
the García Belsunce case.17On August 13, 2021, Netflix premiered the Argentine series El Reino, a
controversial political thriller created and written by Piñeiro along with Marcelo Piñeyro, and starring
by Diego Peretti, Nancy Dupláa, Chino Darín.18

Works[edit]
Novels
2005: Tuya
2005: The Widows of Thursday
2006: Elena knows
2009: The Cracks of Jara
2011: Betibú19
2013: A Communist in Underwear
2015:A small luck20
2017: The curses21
2020: Cathedrals22
2022: The Time of the Flies23
Children's Literature
2000: Serafín, the writer and the witch
2004: A Thief Among Us
2010: The ghost of the English invasions
Stories
2018: Who not
2019: Lady Trópico—published in Men (and some women), Zenda Magazine, 2019
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Theater
2004: How much is a refrigerator (published in the anthology 2002-2004 of the cycle Theater)
X the identity
2006: The same green tree
2007: Verona (published in the Humor Theater anthology of Zapala)
2008: Die, fat one
2009: Three old feathers
2021:Cuánto vale una heladera y otros textos de teatro