Monday, September 3, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Dakota Concursa
soy jurado en este concurso de novelas Dakota Editora, junto a Romina Paula y Oliverio Coehlo, esperamos sus novels!!
Dakota Editora es un proyecto con base en Buenos Aires dedicado a la publicación y traducción de autores jóvenes de América. Nació en 2012 con la idea de favorecer la difusión de escritores de todo el continente, y de establecer nuevas vías de comunicación en tiempo real entre sus distintos países que salten las barreras lingüísticas y los caminos de circulación tradicionales.
-El Plazo es hasta el 16 de Septiembre-
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Livestreaming tonite! At the America's Society
Dear all,
Tune in at 7pm EDT for the webcast of the launch of the new issue of Review at the America's Society here http://www.livestream.com/ascoa I'm reading a chapter of my new novel, besos!
Pola
Tune in at 7pm EDT for the webcast of the launch of the new issue of Review at the America's Society here http://www.livestream.com/ascoa I'm reading a chapter of my new novel, besos!
Pola
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Review, symposium invite
This launch of the women travelers in Latin America issue of the Society’s acclaimed journal will feature comments by editor Daniel Shapiro and guest editor Adriana Méndez Rodenas. The event will feature readings by authors Carlos Franz, Pola Oloixarac, and Michael Schuessler, and translator Jessica Ernst Powell, who will read from their respective texts in Review 84. The speakers will touch on historical figures, travel in the Americas, and the notion of the sublime. The launch will include commentary by special guest Hilda Benítez, who will speak about the novel Woman in Battle Dress, by her late husband, Cuban author Antonio Benítez Rojo. This launch will be conducted in English and Spanish. Copies ofReview 84 will be available for sale at the launch.The symposium will open on May 16 with a panel discussion on four pioneering women travelers with scholars Claire Emille Martin, Vanesa Miseres, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Adela Pineda Franco, moderated by Méndez Rodenas. The symposium will continue on May 17 with a keynote address by Méndez Rodenas.
Review 84, guest-edited by Méndez Rodenas, covers seminal women travelers in Latin America such as Flora Tristan, the French-Peruvian writer and social activist, as well as contemporary writers who address the theme of travel. Scholarly contributions include essays by critics on Tristan; on writer, artist, and ecologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who traveled to Suriname in 1699 to research and document insects and flora; on Victorian Scotswoman Lady Florence Dixie, who wrote about her adventures in Patagonia; and on Countess Paula Kollonitz, the lady-in-waiting to Empress Carlota, during Maximilian’s ill-fated reign in Mexico. The essays are complemented by illuminating texts by the travelers themselves. Other contributions include fiction by modern and contemporary writers, including the late Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Argentine novelist Pola Oloixarac, Mexico-based U.S. author Michael Schuessler, and Chilean writer Carlos Franz. The issue also features an essay by art critic Alicia Lubowski on the influence of Humboldt on women traveler-artists and includes reviews of new titles in translation by Latin American and Caribbean writers.
Women Travelers Symposium: Launch of Review 84
Friday, May 18, 20127:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
-- I'm going to read parts of my new novel, very excited :)
Selvagge!
nella Dalai editore in Italia... con pececitos rojos! El hilo sigue en la contraportada para revelar una hipóstasis de la pequeña Montaigne Michelle.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
first stop: Dubai!
airport lounging at Dubai, waiting for my connection to delhi on to Jaipur Literature Festival !
and the programme is a delight, with Indian literary charmer Chandrahas, whom I met at the IWP at Iowa, and Katie Kitamura, a super chic new yorker lady. Not to mention the talks by Steven Pinker, Salman Rushdie, Richard Dawkins, Ondaatje justo to name a few, oh and the parties ;)
JANUARY 20TH 3:45pm.
'Writing the New Latin America'
Pola Oloixarac in conversation with Chandrahas Choudhury.
JANUARY 23TH 11:15. 'First Person Feminine'
Readings Shubnum Khan, Pola Oloixarac and Katie Kitamura.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Gmail visita Hamsterdam
A'dam es una ciudad terriblemente hermosa, vasta y cozy al mismo tiempo, y no sólo eso: es una ciudad rica en MAZAPAN en diversas formas: frutitas y sushi
con bibliotecas épicas, como la Artis Library
y chicas con zapatos formidables, como este numerito de Fleur (mientras infla su bicicleta, junto al Atheneum Boekhandel)
o esta blonda sonriente con zapatos claros y medias negras --btw un looket que le vi a Zadie Smith en la book party de Salman Rushdie del año pasado
pero como todas las ciudades y los sueños, su magia conoce límites. (o no)
o esta blonda sonriente con zapatos claros y medias negras --btw un looket que le vi a Zadie Smith en la book party de Salman Rushdie del año pasado
pero como todas las ciudades y los sueños, su magia conoce límites. (o no)
después de días de rondar las calles de Amsterdam sin detectar seres gatunos con los cuales relacionarme, este felino suavemente obeso se dejó captar por la cámara cabe el canal Singel. se habla de la Zona Roja, pero la verdad es que en Amsterdam escasean los gatos
amsterdam es una ciudad tan bulliciosa que los gatitos se recluyen en los departamentos de sus dueños, y los holandeses les construyen unas escaleras exclusivas para que puedan bajar al mundo humano a pasearse un poco si lo desean
hasta que una noche, cansada de intentar establecer una conversación con mi gata por skype, salí a caminar hacia los canales de herengracht
entonces la vi....
jugamos un poco, y maulló. pensé en raptarla, llevármela a la writer's residency, convencer a la Nederlands Letterenfonds de la imperiosa necesidad gatuna para la literatura contemporánea en español, pero resolví dejarla continuar con su existencia holandesa paralela
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Antwerpen
Crossing Border literature on Sunday 20 November
Chan Koonchung * Dinaw Mengestu * James Frey * Jan Fabre * Vendela Vida * Elmore & Peter Leonard * Marc Tritsmans * Mary Horlock * Nyk de Vries * Adam Levin * Peter Ghyssaert * Michaël Vandebril * Stephen Kelman * Ben Brooks * Peter Zantingh * Pola Oloixarac * David Nolens
More information on www.crossingborder.be
en auckland ya es mañana
escribe uli
brothers & sisters:
este sábado 19 de noviembre es la presentación de mi primer libro "En Auckland ya es mañana"
publicado por la editorial mansalva
creo que es una buena excusa para vernos y brindar
en la internacional argentina / el salvador 4199 / 20hs
Friday, November 18, 2011
Setting a new stage
by Pola Oloixarac for The New York Times international
While leaders in Europe and the United States struggle with the fallout of the economic downturn and public dissatisfaction with government, Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recently captured 55 percent of the vote to serve as president for four more years. She’s one of the most popular leaders in South America and Argentina’s first elected female president.
Next door, President Sebastián Piñera is coping with widespread student protests and has lost much of the support he had after the 33 Chilean miners were rescued last year. Recent polls show only 26 percent now approve of his government. Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, is dealing with a restive indigenous population that helped put him in power but is now chafing over the rising influence of Brazil.
Meanwhile, Cristina’s second term in office was never in doubt. Her brand of populism, support of gay marriage and a hiring binge of state employees has proven irresistible to many Argentines.
Her popularity can be partly attributed to better days in Argentina, where the economy has grown for nine straight years, at rates second only to Peru in the region. But ten years after the debt default that brought down the Argentine economy, the enduring mystique of the Kirchners goes beyond the tide of stability and the spreading affluence, fueled by high commodity prices, that has coincided with their hold on the top office.
Néstor Kirchner was elected president of Argentina in May of 2003, and Cristina followed him by winning the presidential vote in October of 2007. The Kirchners found a way to update the power-couple iconography of General Juan Domingo Perón and Eva Perón in the 1940s. The Kirchners, surrounded by the national colors, waved together from the Casa Rosada balcony to the congregated masses, evoking images of the Peróns.
Cristina’s first term was tumultuous and full of drama. Like Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears, Cristina was also prone to seducing fans and aggravating opponents. She came forth as strong but humane, resolute but emotional, much as a convincing actress would impersonate the ideal of a Latin female leader. Evita had left her successful stage and film career to serve as a politician alongside her husband; Cristina took on the presidency as her personal stage. She was always at the center of the action. She liked suspense: to the dismay of her own supporters, the public and critics, she kept her script to herself until the last minute.
As Cristina continued the bullying style of government her husband was known for, she was criticized for being too authoritative, too stubborn. In a sexist yet broadly matriarchal society, Argentines reviled this behavior, but at the same time seemed to admire her for it. Many felt in their guts that the government indecisiveness was partly to blame for the 2001 crisis.
The Peronist Party has always thrived on manipulating the media. Perón had mourned his cancer-stricken, immensely popular and equally vilified wife Evita. When Néstor Kirchner died last year, Cristina reverted to the Perón-Evita role-play. She changed her style, appearing in dignified black dresses, carefully coiffed hair, thick eyelashes and smoky eye makeup. Her voice would often break down in public when alluding to her late spouse. As the national widow, she found the role in the play that suited her best: the lone woman in power, the vestal for the nation.
But this new Evita was not calling on the working classes as Evita had in her time. Cristina was winning over the middle class, those affected by the 2001 crisis, telling them what they wanted to hear — that there was a new Argentina that would include everyone.
Is it possible that 10 years from now, a Greek or an Italian politician, who is as unknown as Cristina was in 2001, will rival her in popularity? Who will rise and take advantage of the financial crisis?
The demonstrations that rocked Argentina in 2001, when the sound of banging pots filled the air in cities across the country, were more vehement and spontaneous than today’s Occupy Wall Street movement, though they share common threads.
The Argentine assemblies called themselves anti-system. They condemned financial speculation, endorsed recycling and professed a lost faith in the capitalist system. The assemblies of angry citizens, known as “cacerolazos,” saw politicians as traitors to the state, but did not offer political alternatives to a system they felt was corrupt. Assemblies alone couldn’t bring about change; it took a savvy politicians like the Kirchners to channel the discontent.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better administration,” said Carlos Daniel Sturla, 37, a lawyer from Buenos Aires. “It’s like she’s finally building the country we all wanted to see.”
No Argentine would have said that a decade ago. Is there a chance a new power couple will emerge and sift through the anger that is driving protests around the world today, inspire citizens and unite a country ?
While leaders in Europe and the United States struggle with the fallout of the economic downturn and public dissatisfaction with government, Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recently captured 55 percent of the vote to serve as president for four more years. She’s one of the most popular leaders in South America and Argentina’s first elected female president.
Next door, President Sebastián Piñera is coping with widespread student protests and has lost much of the support he had after the 33 Chilean miners were rescued last year. Recent polls show only 26 percent now approve of his government. Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, is dealing with a restive indigenous population that helped put him in power but is now chafing over the rising influence of Brazil.
Meanwhile, Cristina’s second term in office was never in doubt. Her brand of populism, support of gay marriage and a hiring binge of state employees has proven irresistible to many Argentines.
Her popularity can be partly attributed to better days in Argentina, where the economy has grown for nine straight years, at rates second only to Peru in the region. But ten years after the debt default that brought down the Argentine economy, the enduring mystique of the Kirchners goes beyond the tide of stability and the spreading affluence, fueled by high commodity prices, that has coincided with their hold on the top office.
Néstor Kirchner was elected president of Argentina in May of 2003, and Cristina followed him by winning the presidential vote in October of 2007. The Kirchners found a way to update the power-couple iconography of General Juan Domingo Perón and Eva Perón in the 1940s. The Kirchners, surrounded by the national colors, waved together from the Casa Rosada balcony to the congregated masses, evoking images of the Peróns.
Cristina’s first term was tumultuous and full of drama. Like Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears, Cristina was also prone to seducing fans and aggravating opponents. She came forth as strong but humane, resolute but emotional, much as a convincing actress would impersonate the ideal of a Latin female leader. Evita had left her successful stage and film career to serve as a politician alongside her husband; Cristina took on the presidency as her personal stage. She was always at the center of the action. She liked suspense: to the dismay of her own supporters, the public and critics, she kept her script to herself until the last minute.
As Cristina continued the bullying style of government her husband was known for, she was criticized for being too authoritative, too stubborn. In a sexist yet broadly matriarchal society, Argentines reviled this behavior, but at the same time seemed to admire her for it. Many felt in their guts that the government indecisiveness was partly to blame for the 2001 crisis.
The Peronist Party has always thrived on manipulating the media. Perón had mourned his cancer-stricken, immensely popular and equally vilified wife Evita. When Néstor Kirchner died last year, Cristina reverted to the Perón-Evita role-play. She changed her style, appearing in dignified black dresses, carefully coiffed hair, thick eyelashes and smoky eye makeup. Her voice would often break down in public when alluding to her late spouse. As the national widow, she found the role in the play that suited her best: the lone woman in power, the vestal for the nation.
But this new Evita was not calling on the working classes as Evita had in her time. Cristina was winning over the middle class, those affected by the 2001 crisis, telling them what they wanted to hear — that there was a new Argentina that would include everyone.
Is it possible that 10 years from now, a Greek or an Italian politician, who is as unknown as Cristina was in 2001, will rival her in popularity? Who will rise and take advantage of the financial crisis?
The demonstrations that rocked Argentina in 2001, when the sound of banging pots filled the air in cities across the country, were more vehement and spontaneous than today’s Occupy Wall Street movement, though they share common threads.
The Argentine assemblies called themselves anti-system. They condemned financial speculation, endorsed recycling and professed a lost faith in the capitalist system. The assemblies of angry citizens, known as “cacerolazos,” saw politicians as traitors to the state, but did not offer political alternatives to a system they felt was corrupt. Assemblies alone couldn’t bring about change; it took a savvy politicians like the Kirchners to channel the discontent.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better administration,” said Carlos Daniel Sturla, 37, a lawyer from Buenos Aires. “It’s like she’s finally building the country we all wanted to see.”
No Argentine would have said that a decade ago. Is there a chance a new power couple will emerge and sift through the anger that is driving protests around the world today, inspire citizens and unite a country ?
Thursday, November 17, 2011
@ den haag
reading Friday 18th 21.45 – 22.00 hrs. with Ben Brooks. Location: Royal Theatre, Paradise Stage
Orquídeas azules!
en el Bloemenmarkt de Amsterdam hay orquídeas azules... me contó el joven egipcio a cargo (no quiso salir en la foto porque está estudiando negocios y ésa es su pasión...) que simplemente las riegan con agua azul, agua mezclada con la tinta que se usa para pintar huevos de pascua :)... Es interesante porque cada inflorescencia se entinta diferente, descubriendo nervaduras y combinándose con el colores base, como los rastros amarillos en los híbridos de labios flúo.
enchufando el autito frente al canal (herengracht)
la hora rosada (5.18pm)
palomas muertas en poses extrañas
en camino a Den Haag!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
hallo hamsterdam
a room with a view -spuistraat centrum
talento para las pastries autocontenidas inigualable
la moda de este invierno
los canales de ensueño
libros apilados de seks, drugs en fruiten
mi view hoy a las 7.30am, que me voy a dormir
Friday, November 11, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
arab spring for fall
professor julio ariza hizo un concurso de diseño de posters para el evento en dartmouth y estos son los winners :D
la foto de la primavera árabe la tomó un fotógrafo brasilero en bariloche
Thursday, October 20, 2011
In Yaddo
estos son los bosques donde los Trasks decidieron erigir su casa en 1881. aquí erigieron una mansión estilo reina ana que es un sueño de henry james... yo vivo en una casita como la de Jo en Mujercitas, de luisa may alcott.
una noche me fui a dormir y sentí que algo me caminaba por el pie pero me dormí igual, y a la mañana lo descubrí. son unas primas yankis de las vinchucas
mañana subo más pics
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