Biography

Gabriela Etcheverry is a Chilean-Canadian writer and literary critic. She has a PhD from Laval University and two Master’s degrees from Carleton University, where she taught for many years.

In 2007 she published the novel Latitudes, in which she blends her personal experiences with those of others, weaving through poetry, short fiction, and other modes the threads of time that tie the child to the adult, the province to the city and, finally, the South and the North. One of the twelve children of a dedicated treasure hunter, Gabriela draws on the tales and legends of the city of her childhood, Coquimbo (Chile), for her novel Guayacán: tesoro y lujuria (forthcoming in 2009). Currently, she is working on a new novel, Where Are You? set in Gravenhurst, her husband’s hometown in Canada.

One of her short stories was awarded the first prize in the 5th Short Story Contest “Nuestra Palabra”, (Toronto, 2008) sponsored by the Celebración del Idioma Español (CCIE). Stories from her collections “The Breadfruit Tree” and “You and Me” are included in Retrato de una nube: primera antología del cuento hispano canadiense (ed. Luis Molina Lora and Julio Torres-Recinos, Ottawa: Editorial Lugar Común, 2008). She has also published articles, short stories and poems in the online magazine La Cita Trunca, the monthly Ottawa newspaper Mundo en español, the Chilean bilingual newspaper Coquimbo Times, and the Ottawa literary review Alter Vox.

She has been selected for inclusion by the Canadian Association of Hispanists in their Registro Creativo, a compendium of writers, literary translators and promoters of Hispanic culture. As a cultural facilitator and cofounder of the Hispanic Cultural Network (Red Cultural Hispánica), Gabriela organizes or helps to stage symposia and book launchings in which the writings of Canadian authors who work in the Spanish language can be discussed and presented to the general public. She is also Director and a Contributing Editor of the literary magazine Qantati (www.qantatiliterario.com).

Read here an interview to Gabriela for Eco Latino

gabriela.langserv@rogers.com