Laura Ramos
Laura Ramos was born in Buenos Aires in the sixties, lived in Montevideo and Mexico, and studied Humanities at the Universities of Córdoba and Buenos Aires. Her mother was the feminist Faby Carvallo, also known as “La Maga” in the bohemian circles that point to her as the inspiration for Julio Cortázar’s character Rayuela. Her father was Jorge Abelardo Ramos, leftist politician, historian, editor and writer, ambassador in Mexico, twice presidential candidate in Argentina, and one of Latin America’s most prominent intellectuals. Laura Ramos’ autobiographical texts, considered by essayist Beatriz Sarlo as “unforgiving, with the education received as a daughter of ‘progress,’” humorously reflect the bohemia, adventure, and danger of her childhood as the daughter of revolutionaries. Her columns, texts, and international journalistic coverage, published in Clarín, Página/12, and La Nación, have made identifiable marks on Argentinian chronicle and new literature.
She is the author of Buenos Aires Me Mata [Buenos Aires Kills Me] (Sudamericana, 1993), which was adapted for the screen in 1997; Ciudad Paraíso [Paradise City] (Clarín-Aguilar, 1996); and Diario íntimo de una niña anticuada [Intimate Diary of an Antiquated Girl] (Sudamericana, 2002), and she co-authored Corazones en llamas [Hearts On Fire] (Clarín-Aguilar, 1991), which is on its eleventh edition and has sold over 50,000 copies. La niña guerrera [The Warrior Girl] (Planeta, 2010) brings together a series of biographies of young lesbian women. Currently, she writes auto-fiction and texts about female characters in the 19th and 20th centuries for Página 12’s Radar and the magazine Ñ.
Las señoritas
NON FICTION, 2021
Infernales
NON FICTION, 2019
La niña guerrera
NON FICTION, 2010
Diario íntimo de una niña anticuada
NOVEL, 2002
Ciudad paraíso
NOVEL, 1996
Buenos Aires me mata
NOVEL, 1993
Corazones en llamas
NON FICTION, 1991