Tender is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica was born in Buenos Aires in 1974. She has a degree in Arts (UBA). She won the First Municipal Prize of the City of Buenos Aires Unpublished Story 2004/5, the First Prize in the XXXVIII Latin American Short Story Contest "Edmundo Valadés", Puebla, Mexico, 2009, the Clarín Novel Prize 2017, the Ladys of Horror Fiction 2021 (USA), among others. She was a jury member of literary contests, among which the National Fund for the Arts Award, 2021, and the 12th Itaú Digital Short Story Award, 2022, stand out. In 2013 she published the novel "Matar a la niña" (Textos intrusos). In 2016 she published the book of short stories "Antes del encuentro feroz" (Alción Editora) and in December 2017 the novel Cádaver exquisito (Tender is the flesh) was published by the Clarín-Alfaguara publishing label, with 8 published editions. The television series of this book is in the works. In 2020 Alfaguara published a new compilation of his stories with the title "Nineteen claws and a black bird". Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. In 2023 she finished a new soon-to-be-published novel. She was manager and cultural curator of the Follow the White Rabbit Art Cycle together with Pamela Terlizzi Prina from 2015 to 2020 She coordinates reading workshops.