Gabriela Bustelo is a Spanish author and translator.

Included in the 1990 neorealist

Neorealism (art)

In art, neorealism was established by the ex-Camden Town Group painters Charles Ginner and Harold Gilman at the beginning of World War I. They set out to explore the spirit of their age through the shapes and colours of daily life...

 generation of Spanish novelists, Bustelo made her debut with Veo Veo (Anagrama, 1996), a postmodern "cult" novelette. She shares with José Ángel Mañas

José Ángel Mañas

José Ángel Mañas is a Spanish writer. Mañas is often included as a member of the generation of neorealist Spanish writers from the 1990s, along with Juan Gracia, Gabriela Bustelo, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria...

, Ray Loriga

Ray Loriga

Jorge Loriga Torrenova also known as Ray Loriga, is a Spanish author, screenwriter, and director . His first novel Lo Peor de todo , was published in 1992, and was followed by Héroes in 1993....

 and Lucía Etxebarria

Lucía Etxebarría

Lucía Etxebarría de Asteinza is a Spanish writer. She was born in Valencia in 1966, of Basque parents as her name suggests, the youngest of seven children. The Basque surname Etxebarria has no diacritics, although its Spanish version Echevarría has...

 a crisp style visibly influenced by commercial culture — advertising

Advertising

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, pop music

Pop music

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, film

Film

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 and television

Television

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. Gabriela Bustelo is one of the few Spanish women who have written science fiction

Science fiction

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. Her second novel Planeta Hembra (RBA, 2001), located in New York, is a dystopia

Dystopia

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 on the gender crisis and a satiric overview of feminism. La historia de siempre jamás (El Andén, 2007) portrays the frivolity of European upper classes.

Translations

Bustelo has translated to Spanish

Spanish language

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 the works of classics such as Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

, Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

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, Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

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 and Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

; and well-known contemporaries including Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-five, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in...

, Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:...

 and Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

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See also

• Spanish Literature
  Spanish literature
  Spanish literature generally refers to literature written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the state of Spain...
  
  
• Science-fiction
• Translation
  Translation
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• Dystopia
  Dystopia
  A dystopia is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four...
  
  
• Neorealism (art)
  Neorealism (art)
  In art, neorealism was established by the ex-Camden Town Group painters Charles Ginner and Harold Gilman at the beginning of World War I. They set out to explore the spirit of their age through the shapes and colours of daily life...