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María Moreno (writer)

María Cristina Forero (born 7 May 1947), known by her pseudonym María Moreno, is an Argentine writer, journalist, and cultural critic. Considered one of the most prominent contemporary Argentine chroniclers and essayists, she has dedicated herself to journalistic work and writings related to women's and feminist themes, in addition to fiction.[1][2]

María Moreno
Moreno in 2020
Born
María Cristina Forero

(1947-05-07) 7 May 1947 (age 77)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist, cultural critic
Spouse
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(divorced)​
Awards

UBA academic Laura A. Arnés described her first novel, El affair Skeffington [es], as one of the three "central novels for an Argentine lesbian tradition", along with En breve cárcel by Sylvia Molloy and Monte de Venus by Reina Roffé.[3] Her second novel, Black out (2016), was internationally acclaimed and received the Critics' Award for Best Argentine Creative Writing.

Early years

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María Cristina Forero was born in Buenos Aires on 7 May 1947.[1][4] She married journalist Marcelo A. Moreno [es], and they had one son together. At age 26, she began writing articles signed with her husband's name, which he submitted to the newspaper La Opinión. When his editor praised one of these, he admitted the ruse, but rather than being upset, the editor invited her to continue contributing, which she did under the name María Moreno.[5] She retained this penname after she and Marcelo divorced. In an article for Clarín titled "La chillona alegría de una época" (The Shrill Joy of an Era), she explained,

On my identity document it says Cristina Forero, and by then I had already begun to sign María Moreno. Feminists reproach me for using my ex-husband's surname. I answer that I use the surname of Mariano Moreno, the first Argentine journalist, but they don't believe me. They also don't believe that I use the surname of Colette's best friend, the actress Marguerite Moreno, who was described as a mix of Ximena and El Cid, a unique being. That is to say, I desired "Moreno" before I desired the man who had that surname. But since feminists still don't believe me, I answer them that I am so, so feminist that, instead of using my father's or my ex-husband's surname, I use my son Manuel's.[5]

She went on to write for the magazines Sur and Babel [es], and the TV program Fin de siglo [es].[2] In addition, she was an editorial secretary for the newspaper Tiempo Argentino [es].[6][7] In 1984, she founded Alfonsina, the first feminist magazine of the return to democracy after the National Reorganization Process.[7][8]

Literary career

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Moreno with Daniel Santoro [es] on La patria a cuadros in 2015

In 1992, Moreno published her first book, the novel El affair Skeffington [es], about a poet in the so-called "Paris-Lesbos" of the 1920s and '30s.[9] In 1994, she published the nonfiction chronicle El Petiso Orejudo.[8] In 1999, she received the Nexo Award for her work against discrimination based on gender identity.[10]

The following decade, she published the essay books A tontas ya locas (2001), El fin del sexo y otras mentiras (2002), Vida de vivos (2005), and Banco a la sombra (2007).[11] In 2002, she obtained a Guggenheim Fellowship.[12] In 2005, she hosted the television program Portaretratos on the channel Ciudad Abierta [es].[13] From 2005 to 2010, she was the communications coordinator of the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas.[14]

In 2007, she received a teacher's award from the School Agency Workshop [es].[15]

In 2011, Moreno published the chronicle La comuna de Buenos Aires. Relatos al pie del 2001, about the December 2001 crisis, and the essay collection Teoría de la noche.[11] That year she also received a Lola Mora Award [es] for lifetime achievement from the Buenos Aires Legislature.[16]

In 2013, she published Subrayados. Leer hasta que la muerte nos separe, a collection of literary essays on authors such as Vladimir Nabokov and Roland Barthes.[13] In 2015, she co-directed the program La patria a cuadros on Televisión Pública with painter Daniel Santoro [es].[17] In 2016, she published her second novel, Black out, a mix of chronicle, essay, and autobiography, which was well received by critics and earned her international recognition and the Critics' Award for Best Argentine Creative Writing.[18][19]

In 2018, Moreno published the essay books Oración. Carta a Vicki y otras elegías políticas and Panfleto. Erótica y feminismo.[20][21] In 2019, she edited Loquibambia, a book of "queer etchings".[22] In 2020, she published the memoir Contramarcha. The same year, she was appointed director of the Museum of Books and Language [es].[23] She also received the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award for her "groundbreaking and multifaceted" work.[24]

In July 2021, the writer suffered a stroke, from which she recovered by 2023.[25][26] In 2022, Random House reissued her first novel.[27] In November 2023, she published her twelfth book of essays, Pero aun así. Elogios y despedidas.[11] The same month, she received Revista Ñ [es]'s Lifetime Achievement Award.[28]

In 2024, Moreno received a Diamond Konex Award as the most important writer in the last decade in Argentina.[4][29]

Works

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Fiction

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Chronicles

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  • El Petiso Orejudo (1994), Planeta
  • La comuna de Buenos Aires. Relatos al pie del 2001 (2011), Capital Intelectual

Essays

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  • A tontas y a locas (2001), Sudamericana; reissued (2017), 17grises
  • El fin del sexo y otras mentiras (2002), Sudamericana
  • Vida de vivos (2005), Sudamericana
  • Banco a la sombra (2007), Sudamericana
  • Teoría de la noche (2011), Ediciones UDP
  • Subrayados. Leer hasta que la muerte nos separe (2013), Mardulce
  • Oración. Carta a Vicki y otras elegías políticas (2018), Random House
  • Panfleto. Erótica y feminismo (2018), Random House
  • Loquibambia (2019), Ediciones UDP
  • Y que se rompa todo corazón (2019), Random House
  • Contramarcha (2020), Ampersand
  • Pero aun así (2023), Random House

Awards and recognition

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References

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  1. ^ a b "María Moreno y su interpretación del suicidio de Alfonsina Storni, la poeta que eligió 'morir en los cabales porque más pudre el miedo'" [María Moreno and Her Interpretation of the Suicide of Alfonsina Storni, the Poet Who Chose to "Die in her right mind because fear rots more"]. Infobae (in Spanish). 13 November 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Absatz, Cecilia (15 November 2023). "María Moreno, la brillante teórica feminista que tiene una pluma privilegiada" [María Moreno, the Brilliant Feminist Theorist Who Has a Privileged Pen] (in Spanish). TN. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  3. ^ Arnés, Laura A. (December 2016). Ficciones lesbianas: Literatura y afectos en la cultura argentina [Lesbian Fictions: Literature and Affections in Argentine Culture]. Madreselva. p. 10. ISBN 9789873861079. Retrieved 29 August 2024 – via Issuu.
  4. ^ a b "María Moreno: Premio Konex 2024: Biografías, Memorias y Diarios" (in Spanish and English). Konex Foundation. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  5. ^ a b Domínguez Galván, Zaradat (5 June 2017). Realidad y Artificio. La escritura crónica de María Moreno [Reality and Artifice: María Moreno's Chronicle Writing] (PDF) (Thesis) (in Spanish). University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. pp. 121–122. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  6. ^ "María Moreno". Anfibia (in Spanish). National University of General San Martín. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  7. ^ a b Leone, Lucía María de (June 2011). "Una poética del nombre: los 'comienzos' de María Moreno hacia mediados de los años 80 en el contexto cultural argentino" [A poetics of the name: Maria Moreno's "beginnings" in the mid-eighties in the Argentinean cultural context]. Cadernos Pagu (in Spanish) (36). doi:10.1590/S0104-83332011000100009. hdl:11336/192614. Retrieved 29 August 2024 – via SciELO.
  8. ^ a b "María Moreno | cronología | bibliografía". Audiovideoteca de Escritores (in Spanish). Centro Cultural Recoleta. Archived from the original on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  9. ^ Aletto, Carlos (21 November 2022). "María Moreno: 'Me sucedió un cataclismo del que no me repongo, pero voy a escribir sobre eso'" [Maria Moreno: "A cataclysm happened to me and I haven't recovered, but I'm going to write about it"]. Clarín (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Conversar es fuente de conocimiento" [Conversation is a source of knowledge]. Página 12 (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. 7 August 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  11. ^ a b c Lezcano, Walter (18 November 2023). "María Moreno, donde lo correcto se tambalea" [Maria Moreno, Where What is Right is Shaken]. Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  12. ^ "María Moreno". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Ensayos 'subrayados' de María Moreno". Estandarte (in Spanish). 5 September 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  14. ^ "Coordinador Maria Moreno" (in Spanish). Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  15. ^ "TEA premió a sus maestros" [TEA Awards its Teachers]. Clarín (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. 20 July 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  16. ^ "Entregaron los premios Lola Mora 2011" [The 2011 Lola Mora Awards Presented] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires City Legislature. 27 September 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  17. ^ "Se presentó 'La Patria a cuadros' en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes" ["The Homeland in Pictures" Presented at the National Museum of Fine Arts] (in Spanish). Secretariat of Culture of Argentina. 13 June 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  18. ^ Bellotti, Alejandro (1 November 2016). "María Moreno, con la necesidad genuina de los salvajes" [Maria Moreno, with the Genuine Need of the Savages]. Perfil (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  19. ^ "María Moreno recibió el premio de la Crítica en la Feria del Libro" [María Moreno Receives the Critics' Award at the Book Fair]. Infobae (in Spanish). 10 May 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  20. ^ Mello, Luciana de (3 April 2018). "La novela familiar" [The Family Novel]. Página 12 (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  21. ^ Mello, Luciana de (27 February 2019). "Luche y goce" [Fight and Joy]. Página 12 (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  22. ^ Mello, Luciana de (3 May 2020). "María Moreno presenta las aguafuertes queer de 'Loquibambia'" [Maria Moreno Presents the Queer Etchings of "Loquibambia"]. Página 12 (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  23. ^ "María Moreno es la nueva directora del Museo del Libro y de la Lengua" [María Moreno is the New Director of the Museum of Books and Language]. Infobae (in Spanish). 13 January 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  24. ^ Conde, Paula (25 June 2019). "Rupturista y fuera del canon: la escritora María Moreno fue distinguida en Chile" [Disruptive and Outside the Canon: The Writer María Moreno is Honored in Chile]. Clarín (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  25. ^ "La escritora María Moreno, directora del Museo del Libro y de la Lengua, tuvo un ACV" [The Writer María Moreno, Director of the Museum of Books and Language, Has a Stroke]. Infobae (in Spanish). 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  26. ^ Salomé, René (8 November 2023). "María Moreno: así empieza el libro que escribió 'con un solo dedo' después de su ACV" [Maria Moreno: This is How the Book She Wrote "with just one finger" After Her Stroke Begins]. Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  27. ^ Zeiger, Claudio (20 November 2022). "A treinta años de su edición original vuelve 'El affair Skeffington' de María Moreno" [Thirty Years After its Original Edition, "The Skeffington Affair" by María Moreno Returns]. Página 12 (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  28. ^ "El Premio Ñ a la Trayectoria fue para la gran María Moreno" [The Ñ Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to the Great María Moreno]. Clarín (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. 23 November 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  29. ^ "La escritora Maria Moreno recibirá el Konex de brillante por su labor en la última década". Clarin.
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