2. The writer

3. Her name is Luisa Futoransky. She’s an Argentinian writer. She was born in Buenos Aires in 1939 but she lives in Paris, France since 1981. She is 71 years old. She is not married and she does not have children. She is a successful and well-known writer. She writes poems, novels, essays, etc but she is mainly a poet.

4. Her most famous works are her poems but her novel: Cuentos Chinos is very well-known, too. She travels a lot in her life and she studies in different universities. First, she studies with Borges in Buenos Aires and then, she studies poetry in Rome.

5. She recieves several prizes. For example, in 1990, she recieves the “Chevalier des Arts et lettres” prize in France. She writes about language, exile, and discrimination against women. The narrator of her novel Son Cuentos Chinos says: “what can be worse than being female, forty, alone, not very thin, Jewish, and South American?”

6. She writes since she is very young. she has a great number of books. Many of her friends are well-known writers and reporters, not only from Argentina but from different parts of the world

7. Famous literary works