Clara Obligado


Clara Obligado Marcó del Pont is an Argentine-Spanish writer.

Biography

Clara Obligado holds a licentiate in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. Since 1976 she has lived in Madrid, a political exile of the Argentine regime known as the National Reorganization Process, and has Spanish citizenship.
She was one of the first people who began to give creative writing workshops, both independently and at the National University of Distance Education, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, and the bookstore Mujeres de Madrid, among many other institutions. In 1978 she founded the Creative Writing Workshop of Clara Obligado, one of the centers of this discipline with the longest standing in Spain and which she currently directs, teaching courses both live and at a distance.
According to Juan Casamayor, editor of Páginas de Espuma, Clara Obligado was the introducer of the micro-story in Spain, through her literary workshops.
In 1996 she received the Lumen Women's Award for her novel La hija de Marx. She is also the author of the novels Si un hombre vivo te hace llorar, No le digas que lo quieres, and Salsa.
In her essay books she has addressed topics related to women and culture, as in her work Mujeres a contracorriente.
In 2012 she won the Setenil Award with her short story book El libro de los viajes equivocados, and in 2015 the Juan March Cencillo Short Novel Award with Petrarca para viajeros.

Works

Novels

Anthologies and collaborations