Clara Obligado was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in Madrid since 1976, where she writes and teaches creative writing workshops. Her awards include the Lumen Prize for her novel La hija de Marx [Marx's Daughter] (1996), the Juan March Cencillo Short Novel Prize for Petrarca para viajeros [Petrarch for Travelers] (2015), and the Setenil Award for El libro de los viajes equivocados [The Book of Mistaken Journeys] (2011). Her essays Una casa lejos de casa: La escritura extranjera [A Home Far from Home: Foreign Writing] (2020) and Todo lo que crece: naturaleza y escritura [all that grows: nature and writing] (2021) have been republished multiple times. As an anthologist, she has ventured into microfiction with Por favor, sea breve [Please, Be Brief] (2009), and she coordinated the Atlas de Literatura Latinoamericana (arquitectura inestable) [Atlas of Latin American Literature (Unstable Architecture)] (2022). Her latest book is Tres maneras de decir adió s [Three Ways to Say Goodbye], published in March 2024. Obligado's work has been translated into several languages. She has never lost contact with her country of origin, where her work is published by various publishing houses.
