Camila Sosa Villada

Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in a small town near Córdoba, Argentina, under the name Cristian Omar. When she started dressing as a woman, she heard her father say, “One day someone will knock on the door to tell me you’ve been found dead.” Sosa Villada studied communication sciences and theatre at the National University of Córdoba. In addition to her work on stage, in film and television, she began to devote herself to writing. She is the author of the poetry collection La novia de Sandro (Sandro’s Girlfriend), the essay El viaje inútil (The Useless Journey), the novels Tesis sobre una domesticación (Thesis on a Domestication) and Las Malas (translated into English by Kit Maude as Bad Girls, translated into German as Im Park der prächtigen Schwestern by Svenja Becker) and the short story collection Soy una tonta por quererte (I’m a Fool for Loving You). In 2020, she received the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, awarded by the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico.