Argentine · b. 1968
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara rewrites Argentine history from below. Her novel "The Adventures of China Iron" reimagines the wife left behind in the foundational gaucho epic "Martín Fierro," sending her across the pampas in a queer love story that challenges patriarchal mythology. The Argentine author writes in a baroque style that matches her revisionist ambitions, making nineteenth-century Argentina strange and new.