Tununa Mercado

Tununa Mercado was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1939, and is one of the most important women writers in contemporary Argentine literature. Her first collection of short stories, Celebrar a la mujer como a una pascua, received an Honorable Mention from the Casa de las Americas prize. Other significant works include En estado de memoria, translated to English, French, and Portuguese, La letra de lo mínimo, and La madriguera. In 1998 Mercado received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel Yo nunca te prometí la eternidad, which received the Sor Juana Inés Prize at the 2007 International Book Fair in Guadalajara. (Photo credit: Alchetron)