Matilde Sánchez


Matilde Sánchez is an Argentine journalist, writer, and translator. Beginning in 1982 she developed a prolific career in the field of cultural journalism. She edited the Culture and Nation supplement of the newspaper Clarín, as well as .

Professional career

Matilde Sánchez studied at the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini. Her first work was a biography of Hebe de Bonafini. In 1992 she published her first novel, La ingratitud, dedicated to her father and that takes place in Berlin. The subject of travel is recurrent in her work, and according to writer, "appears as a fundamental experience" from her first novels.
Her works have received favorable criticism from other writers, such as the Mexican Carlos Fuentes, who rated La ingratitud, El dock, and El desperdicio as particularly notable, and Beatriz Sarlo, who wrote about La ingratitud: "It's a text notable for its intelligence, for the steadfast security of writing without hesitation, and for the ability to exhibit a drama of feelings with the same distance as observing a foreign city.", in turn, described her in his personal blog as one of the best writers of her generation. The writer Miguel Vitagliano opined that El dock was the best novel of the 1990s.

Works

Fiction

Matilde Sánchez's eldest son is the rock journalist Valentín Pauls, from her relationship with.