Something Has Gone Very Wrong: An Interview With Ecuadoran Author Gabriela Alemn

[Judi Lynn]

NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Something Has Gone Very Wrong: An Interview With Ecuadoran Author Gabriela Alemán
by JONAH RASKIN

“Crime is ubiquitous now. Globalization has facilitated that and the technology is there. You can be in the U.S. and empty out bank accounts in Bangladesh, Italy and China, or visa versa. Some of the stuff that’s happening all over the world is also happening right next door.”

– Gabriela Alemán, November 6, 2018

The Paris Review recently called Gabriela Alemán “a literary citizen of the Andes.” One might also call her a “citizen of the Americas,” and of the world as well. After all, her work has appeared in Chinese, Hebrew, French and Croatian; her fictional characters belong to the U.S., Germany, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.

Moreover, Alemán isn’t just a “literary citizen,” though that’s a fine thing to be, but also an overtly political citizen as so many writers from South America are today and have been, from Pablo Neruda and Carlos Fuentes to Gabriel García Márquez.

A journalist and a reporter as well as a novelist and a playwright, she was born in 1969 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the granddaughter of Ecuadorian poet, Hugo Alemán, and the daughter of the Ecuadorian diplomat Mario Alemán.

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/09/something-has-gone-very-wrong-an-interview-with-ecuadoran-author-gabriela-aleman/