Born in Buenos Aires, Gorodischer has lived in Rosario since she was eight, and this city appears very frequently in her work. In 2007 the city council of Rosario awarded her the title of Illustrious Citizen. In the English-speaking world Gorodischer might be best known for Kalpa Imperial. Its English translation came in 2003 by United Statesspeculative fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin. A collection of short stories, it details the history of a vast imaginary empire through tales of fantasy, fable, and allegory. It does this in a way that gained in many admirers who deem it to be one of the finest genre work of Argentina. It also gained supporters in the English-speaking world. A part of the work appeared as a story in the American anthology Starlight 2. She also produced many works before Kalpa Imperial including the collections Opus dos , Bajo las jubeas en flor , and Casta Luna Electronica . She was a science fiction author noted for her work about the differences of power among men and women. She focused on the pros and cons of people in power and wrote about corrupt rulers. Gorodischer is author of two novels within the genre of detective fiction. Her detective persona is a female grand dame who reluctantly and haphazardly engages in the world of international intrigue. She made her literary debut in 1985 in Gorodischer's short fictional tale or noveleta entitled Floreros de alabastro, alfombras de Bokhara, reappearing later in different form in Jugo de mango.
Works
Cuentos con soldados
Opus Dos
Las pelucas
Bajo las jubeas en flor
Casta luna electrónica
Trafalgar
Kalpa imperial
Mala noche y parir hembra
Floreros de alabastro, alfombras de Bokhara. Lyndhurst, NJ: Lectorum Publications, 1985.
Jugo de mango Emecé Editores, Buenos Aires, 1988. Novela.
Tecnicas de supervivencia. Rosario: Ed. Municipal Rosario, 1994.
La noche del innocente. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1996.
Cómo triunfar en la vida. Buenos Aires, Emecé, 1998.
"The End of a Dynasty." Chapter from Kalpa Imperial. Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin. In Starlight 2. Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden. New York: Tor, 1999.
English Translation
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was. Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin. Northampton: Small Beer Press, 2003.
Trafalgar. Translated by Amalia Gladhart. Small Beer Press, 2013
Prodigies. Translated by Sue Burke. Small Beer Press, August 2015.
