Agustina Bazterrica

Agustina Bazterrica (born 1974) is an Argentine writer. She is noted for her short stories and her novels, and she has won multiple literary prizes.

Life and career

She was born in Buenos Aires, and studied fine arts at the University of Buenos Aires.

Her book Cadáver exquisito won the 2017 Clarín Novel Prize and the 2020 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novel, for the latter being the only winner not originally written in English. It has been translated into a number of languages, including in English under the title Tender Is the Flesh.

She co-curated the art event series Siga al Conejo Blanco and she runs reading and writing workshops with fellow writer Agustina Caride.

Works

Novels

Matar a la niña. Textos Intrusos. March 13, 2013. ASIN B0DLT8NMKB.

Antes del encuentro feroz. Alción Editora. January 1, 2016. ISBN 9789876466455.

Las cajas de Unamuno. Audiocuentos de la Nueva Narrativa Argentina. January 1, 2017. ASIN B0DM2G4QNB.

Cadáver exquisito [Tender Is the Flesh]. Translated by Sarah Moses. Alfaguara. November 29, 2017. ISBN 9788420433424.

Las indignas [The Unworthy]. Translated by Sarah Moses. Alfaguara. December 5, 2023. ISBN 9798890980137.

Collections

Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro [Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird]. Translated by Sarah Moses. Alfaguara. August 1, 2020. ISBN 9789877387094.

Short stories

In Sangre Fría (PelosDePunta, 2016)

In El nuevo cuento argentino: Una antología (EUFyL, 2017)

In Revista Próxima 37 (Ediciones Ayarmanot, 2018)

In Cuerpo (Anfibia Papel, 2019)