María Rosa Lojo
María Rosa Lojo is an author born in Buenos Aires. She directs two research projects and offers a doctoral seminar at the Universidad del Salvador. She is a longstanding contributor to the Literary Supplement of La Nación in Buenos Aires. In addition, she coordinated the international team of researchers that put together the critical edition of Ernesto Sabato’s Sobre héroes y tumbas for the archival collection at UNESCO. She was invited to represent Argentina at international fairs and congresses, and also serves as a juror in literary competitions.
Works
Her published work includes three books of poetry; the novels La pasión de los nómades, La princesa federal, Una mujer de fin de siglo, Las Libres del Sur, and Finisterre ; and the collections of short narratives Historias ocultas en la Recoleta and Amores insólitos de nuestra historia. Finisterre has been translated into Galician and published as A fin da terra. Brett Alan Sanders’ English translations of her poetry and prose have appeared in The Saint Ann's Review, Chelsea, Stand Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Perihelion, Artful Dodge, Event, New Works Review, Hunger Mountain, Rhino, Mudlark: An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics, Contemporary Verse 2, PRISM International, and The Dirty Goat.
Family
Her father, a Republican from Galicia, had exiled himself to Argentina after the Civil War.