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Series: Biblio File in Buenos Aires

Liliana Heker was born in 1943 in Buenos Aires. Her\\xa0writing career began at age 17 thanks to a letter she wrote\\xa0Abelardo Castillo\\xa0requesting a job at a magazine he edited.\\xa0During Argentina\'s so called Dirty War in the seventies and eighties,\\xa0she defiantly wrote and edited several well known left-wing literary journals, subtly protesting her country\'s violent, repressive regime, while defending the practice of literature. She also famously engaged in correspondence with\\xa0Julio Cort\\xe1zar, arguing that resistance to tyranny is better staged at home where the people can read your work and take faith from it, rather than from abroad.\\xa0

This from Biblioasis: "She is the author of two novels and numerous books of short stories and essays, in addition to being a founder of two important Argentine literary magazines. Her collected short stories were published in Spanish in 2004 and translated into Hebrew; her stories have been included in anthologies in many countries and languages. Her collection, The Stolen Party and Other Stories, is available in English. Her novel\\xa0The End of the Story\\xa0was not only a literary success, but a cultural event that provoked controversy and avid discussion of how best to remember the years of the Argentine dictatorship." \\xa0 I met Liliana at her home in Buenos Aires to talk about all of the above, and more. \\xa0 Her collection of short stories, Please Talk to Me, translated by Alberto Manguel and Miranda France, is available from Yale University Press