The German Room

Carla Maliandi was born in Venezuela in 1976 but grew up in Argentina, where she now lives. She is an award-winning playwright, theatre director, university lecturer and writer. She has written and directed five theatre plays, which were staged in Buenos Aires as well as in different international theatre festivals. She has also co-written several other plays. She is part of the writers' collective Rioplatensas as part of which she directs a literary journal and a TV programme. Her plays Espejo en el desierto (Mirror in the desert) and Regen (Rain) appeared in an anthology published by the National Theatre Institute of Argentina, and her short story Indio (Indian) was included in a short story collection entitled Zona de cuentos (Short Story Zone). The German Room is her debut novel, chosen by several critics as one of the best books to come out of Argentina in 2017. It is also her first book to be translated into English. In 2024, Charco Press will publish her second novel, La estirpe (Bloodline).