Guggenheim Fellowship ( film studies, 2006).It turns out that the disappearance of the candidate and those of the women are intimately connected, and not just to a local crime wave, but to a multinational magnate's plan to plunder the country's cloud forest preserve. Bella Altamirano, a fearless local, is on her own crusade to pierce the settlement's code of silence, ignoring repeated death threats. Gustavo Varas, a principled journalist, picks up the trail, which leads him into a violent, lawless underworld. The sole survivor-next in line for the presidency-inexplicably disappears from sight. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing, but the authorities have shown little interest. Poso Wells is her first full-length work to appear in English.Ĭelebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance! Her stories have appeared in anthologies in French, English, Chinese, Hebrew, Portuguese and Croatian.
Her other books include the short story collections, Fuga permanente and Álbum de familia her novels in Spanish include Body Time, Poso Wells, and Humo. Her literary honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006 member of Bogotá 39, a 2007 selection of the most important up-and-coming writers in Latin America in the post-Boom generation one of five finalists for the 2015 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) for her story collection La muerte silba un blues and winner of several prizes for critical essays on literature and film. She received a PhD at Tulane University and holds a Master's degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Gabriela Alemán, based in Quito, Ecuador, has played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a waitress, administrator, translator, radio scriptwriter, and film studies professor.
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