Luisa Valenzuela (b. November 26, 1938, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a novelist and short story writer. She is a writer of magical realism, a popular theme in Latin American literature. November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Buenos Aires (Good Air in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America. ... Magic Realism (or Magical Realism) is an illustrative or literary technique in which the laws of cause and effect seem not quite to apply in otherwise real world situations. ...
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LuisaValenzuela was born November 26, 1938, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to parents Pablo Francisco Valenzuela, a physician, and Luisa Mercedes Levinson, a writer of note in Argentina.
Valenzuela was subsequently awarded a Fulbright grant in 1969 that allowed her to participate in the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa.
Valenzuela had been teaching at Columbia University periodically since 1973; in 1979 she was offered a writer-in-residence position and decided to move to the United States to escape the political repression.
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