Gabriela Wiener

Gabriela Wiener, born in Lima, Peru, is a writer and journalist. She publishes fiction, essays, reports, and autofictional texts in which she weaves together personal and societal themes. She is the author of, among others, »Sexographies« [2018, tr. Jennifer Adcock, Lucy Greaves], »Nine Moons« [2021, tr. Jessica Powell], »Llamada perdida« [2014], and »Una pequeña fiesta llamada Eternidad« [2023]. For her journalistic work, she was awarded the National Journalism Prize of Peru. Her most recent book, »Atusparia« [2024], received the City of Barcelona Prize in 2025. Her autobiographically influenced narrative novel »Undiscovered« [2024, tr. Julia Sanches] was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2024 and translated into several languages. In the book, she explores her wounded sense of identity and confronts a patriarchal ancestor of her family – an educated traveler of German origin. She has created several performances, both solo and with her family. She is also a co-founder of Sudakasa, a space for collective writing in Castilla-La Mancha. Wiener writes about persistent racist and patriarchal patterns, relational forms, bodies, and against the colonial conditioning that shapes our lives. She lives in Madrid.

Last Update: 2025

Unentdeckt
Kanon Verlag
Berlin, 2025 [Original: 2021]
[Ü: Friederike von Criegern]