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Pero bien sabes que detr\u00e1s de tu memoria existe una noche oscura donde te escondes de vos misma, como todos nosotros\u201d.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\">&#8211; Trajiste contigo el viento<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Natalia Garc\u00eda Freire naci\u00f3 en Cuenca, Ecuador, en el a\u00f1o 1991. Es escritora y profesora de escritura creativa en la Universidad del Azuay y ha trabajado como maestra de escuela primaria. Ha publicado art\u00edculos de cultura, viajes, perfiles y cr\u00f3nicas en medios como BBC Mundo, Univisi\u00f3n, Plan V, CityLab Latino, la revista de viajes \u00d1an, BG Magazine y Letras del Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de trabajar algunos a\u00f1os como periodista, ella buscaba otro tipo de escritura. Como ella <a href=\"https:\/\/es.babelio.com\/auteur\/Natalia-Garcia-Freire\/86562\">lo describe<\/a>: &#8220;Sab\u00eda que quer\u00eda escribir y empec\u00e9 a disfrutarlo mucho como un juego y tambi\u00e9n a obsesionarme con esa historia, cuando empec\u00e9 sab\u00eda que ya no iba a parar hasta tenerla escrita, era como descubrirla, como si en lugar de imaginarla o inventarla, yo tuviese que descubrirla, verla, recordarla y eso fue lo que me atrajo de la ficci\u00f3n&#8221;. Explorando este inter\u00e9s, en 2016, hizo una maestr\u00eda de escritura creativa en la Escuela de Escritores de Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Se encontr\u00f3 con los editores de La Navaja Suiza, editora independiente de Madrid, cuyo trabajo hab\u00eda le\u00eddo y admirado. Desde la publicaci\u00f3n de su primer libro con La Navaja Suiza, Natalia comenta sentirse cercana a la editorial, que le ha acompa\u00f1ado y brindado muchas oportunidades. Su primera obra, <em><span style=\"color: #993366\">Nuestra piel muerta (2019)<\/span><\/em>, fue comentada en el diario El Pa\u00eds por la escritora Marta Sanz, ganadora del Premio Herralde de Novela 2015, y consta entre los <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/es\/2019\/12\/15\/espanol\/opinion\/mejores-libros-2019.html\">12 mejores libros de 2019<\/a>, seleccionados por el periodista y cr\u00edtico literario Jorge Carri\u00f3n para The New York Times. Adem\u00e1s, fue nominada al premio literario Tigre Juan, y ha sido traducida al ingl\u00e9s, italiano, franc\u00e9s y al turco. La traducci\u00f3n en ingl\u00e9s recibi\u00f3 el premio English Pen en el a\u00f1o 2022.<\/p>\n<p>El lanzamiento que hizo Natalia Garc\u00eda de su libro en Ecuador fue en el <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eltelegrafo.com.ec\/component\/k2\/cultura\/10\/libreros-museo-guayaquil?Itemid=287\">Museo Tomado<\/a> en el Museo de Guayaquil, una actividad organizada por La Colectiva.<\/p>\n<p>Su segunda obra, <em><span style=\"color: #993366\">Trajiste contigo el viento (2022)<\/span><\/em>, ha sido publicada por al menos cuatro editoriales distintas, entre ellas La Navaja Suiza, Mantis Narrativa, Para\u00edso Perdido Editorial y TusQuets Editores.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #993366\">&#8220;La piel muerta representa la aceptaci\u00f3n de nuestra mortalidad y de que aquello que nos rodea, y que nos sobrevive, la naturaleza, los insectos, prescinde de nosotros y es quiz\u00e1 mucho m\u00e1s sagrado&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\">&#8211; <a style=\"color: #993366\" href=\"https:\/\/es.babelio.com\/auteur\/Natalia-Garcia-Freire\/86562\">Entrevista<\/a> a Natalia Garc\u00eda Freire<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #993366\">You are reserved to the point of boredom. But you well know that behind your memory is a dark night where you hide from yourself, like all of us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\">&#8211; Trajiste contigo el viento<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Natalia Garc\u00eda Freire was born in Cuenca, Ecuador, in 1991. She is a writer and professor of creative writing at the University of Azuay and has worked as an elementary school teacher. She has published articles on culture, travel, profiles, and chronicles in media outlets such as BBC Mundo, Univisi\u00f3n, Plan V, CityLab Latino, \u00d1an travel magazine, BG Magazine, and Letras del Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>After working for a few years as a journalist, she sought a different kind of writing. &#8220;I knew I wanted to write,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/es.babelio.com\/auteur\/Natalia-Garcia-Freire\/86562\">she describes,<\/a> &#8220;and I began to enjoy it very much as a game and also became obsessed over that story. When I started, I knew I would not stop until I had written it. It was like discovering it, as if instead of imagining or inventing it, I had to discover it, see it, remember it, and that was what drew me to fiction.&#8221; Exploring this interest, in 2016, she completed a master&#8217;s in creative writing at the Escuela de Escritores in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>She met with the editors of La Navaja Suiza, an independent publishing house in Madrid, whose work she had read and admired. Since publishing her first book, Natalia has commented on feeling close to the publisher, who has supported her and offered many opportunities. Her first work, <em><span style=\"color: #993366\">Nuestra piel muerta\/The world does not belong to us (2019)<\/span><\/em>, was reviewed in the newspaper El Pa\u00eds by the writer Marta Sanz, winner of the 2015 Herralde Novel Prize, and is among the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/es\/2019\/12\/15\/espanol\/opinion\/mejores-libros-2019.html\"> top 12 books of 2019<\/a>, selected by the journalist and literary critic Jorge Carri\u00f3n for The New York Times. It was also nominated for the Tigre Juan Literary Prize and has been translated into English, Italian, French, and Turkish. The English translation received the English PEN award in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Natalia Garc\u00eda&#8217;s book was launched in Ecuador at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eltelegrafo.com.ec\/component\/k2\/cultura\/10\/libreros-museo-guayaquil?Itemid=287\">Museo Tomado<\/a> in the Guayaquil Museum, an event organized by La Colectiva.<\/p>\n<p>Her second work, <em><span style=\"color: #993366\">Trajiste contigo el viento (2022)<\/span><\/em>, has been published by at least four different publishers, including La Navaja Suiza, Mantis Narrativa, Para\u00edso Perdido Editorial, and TusQuets Editores.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #993366\">&#8220;Dead skin represents the acceptance of our mortality and the fact that what surrounds us, and outlives us\u2014nature, insects\u2014does without us and is perhaps much more sacred.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\">&#8211; <a style=\"color: #993366\" href=\"https:\/\/es.babelio.com\/auteur\/Natalia-Garcia-Freire\/86562\">Interview<\/a> with Natalia Garc\u00eda Freire<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEres recatada hasta el aburrimiento. Pero bien sabes que detr\u00e1s de tu memoria existe una noche oscura donde te escondes de vos misma, como todos nosotros\u201d. &#8211; Trajiste contigo el viento Natalia Garc\u00eda Freire naci\u00f3 en Cuenca, Ecuador, en el&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/country\/ecuador\/natalia-garcia-freire\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1783,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}