Alex Ferrara
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Introduction | Alex Ferrara was born and educated in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a certified and literary English-Spanish-French translator and holds a degree in Chinese Studies from Universidad del Salvador. She taught Chinese Philosophy and Literature at Universidad Maimónides until 1994, when she decided to make a living out of writing. Three years later she graduated as a film director and scriptwriter. Her produced screenplays (Chiquititas Ricón de Luz, Apasionados and El Cine de Maite became top Argentine blockbusters. Her first novel, COLLATERAL MAN, was originally written in English and published with great reviews in 2003 (www.collateralman.com). Her own Spanish translation was published later that same year. She won the Julio Cortázar Literary Award three times for her short stories Las Cajas (2000), Wanda (2001) and La niña hindú (2009), and a certificate of merit for her original English screenplay Hildegard at the 2001 International Screenplay Competition of the American Screenwriters Association and Writer´s Digest. Die-hard traveler and mother of two daughters, at present she lives and writes in Buenos Aires. |