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Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (C rdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor, and hourly maid. She holds degrees in communication and theater from the National University of C rdoba. Her play Carnes tolendas, retrato escenico de un travesti was selected for the 2010 National Theater Festival held in La Plata. Her first novel, Bad Girls, won the Premio Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the Grand Prix de l'Heroine Madame Figaro and will be translated into six languages. Kit Maude is a translator based in Buenos Aires. He has translated dozens of classic and contemporary Latin American writers such as Armonia Somers, Jorge Luis Borges, Lolita Copacabana, and Ariel Magnus for a wide array of publications and writes reviews and criticism for several different outlets in Spanish and English including the Times Literary Supplement, Revista and Otra Parte.
After I finished reading Camila's story, it kept growing in me...As a story of gender oppression, Bad Girls (beautifully translated by Kit Maude) would sound familiar almost everywhere...To record the travesti experience, no matter how harrowingly painful, as something precious is [its] purpose. -Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker This fantastical story about the power of chosen family is entrancing. -BuzzFeed There's a touch of the miraculous, a sort of stop-motion fabulism, sprouting through the cracks of the Cordoban asphalt in Camila Sosa Villada's Bad Girls, imbuing the novel's ragtag company of trans deities, miscreants, and sex workers with an enduring sense of fantastical improbability...a vivid and boisterous translation...a plaintive vigil that feels like a party. -Justin Walls, Center for the Art of Translation Blog [A] poignant trans coming-of-age novel. -Book Riot, Queer Books from Indie Presses You Definitely Don't Want to Miss This Year An incredible debut novel...Taking a page from writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Roberto Bolano, Villada's work blends a stark depiction of violence and trauma with a distinctly queer magical realism. -Apartment Therapy Every so often, a slim book absolutely clobbers you with its exuberance and beauty-for me, this was that book. -Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beautiful novel, moving, disturbing, raw, and honest. In skillfully rendered language, charged with poetic energy, it takes us deep into the world of trans prostitution and explores the violent and tender bonds that unite the women who inhabit it. -Fernanda Melchor, author of Hurricane Season Camila Sosa Villada's Bad Girls blew Argentina's collective mind with its exquisite power, tenderness, and riotous imagination. -Carolina De Robertis, author of The President and the Frog and Cantoras This is an important book: fun, tragic, political, and full of marvel. It makes you understand the lives of these women and the wonder and pain of being different and rejected. It's full of pride and exquisitely written. It will break your heart and at the same time make you want to laugh and dance, full of love and sorrow. -Mariana Enriquez, author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Without hiding the reality, this novel celebrates trans life with lyricism and wonder. Bad Girls is a gem to be savored. -Elle (France) [Sosa Villada] constructs a language that seems to come from dreams, fairy tales, and adventure novels...a literary sensation. -Rolling Stone (Argentina) From a life reminiscent of a Pedro Almodovar film, Camila Sosa Villada has drawn a novel, an incredible piece of literature...powerful. -Vanity Fair (France) An homage to sex workers suffused with magic. -Le Monde
