Sergio Chejfec

Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. From 1990-2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish program at NYU.

Chejfec has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. His works include Lenta biografía (1990), Los planetas (1999), Boca de Lobo (2000), Los incompletos (2004) and Mis dos mundos (2008). He has been compared to Juan José Saer, which he finds flattering but not accurate. His novels usually feature a slow-paced narration that interweaves the plot with reflection. Memory, political violence, and Jewish-Argentine culture and history are some of the themes recurring throughout his work.

Bibliography

• Lenta biografía. Buenos Aires: Puntosur, 1990.
• Moral. Buenos Aires: Puntosur, 1990.
• El aire. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1992.
• Cinco. Saint-Nazaire (France): M.E.E.T., 1996.
• El llamado de la especie. Rosario (Argentina): Beatriz Viterbo, 1997.
• Los planetas. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1999.
• Boca de lobo. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2000.
• Tres poemas y una merced, in Diario de Poesía 62 (2002), Buenos Aires.
• Los incompletos. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2004.
• El punto vacilante. Buenos Aires: Norma, 2005.
• Baroni: un viaje. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2007.
• Mis dos mundos. Barcelona, Candaya, 2008.

English translations

• My Two Worlds (Open Letter, 2011), translated by Margaret B. Carson.

External links

• Read This Next. A preview of My Two Worlds, including sample pages and interviews with Chejfec, at Open Letter website
• "El argentino reticente", in Pagina 12 (Spanish)
• Links to a number of articles on and by Chejfec
• [1] Link to an article by Maximiliano Sánchez about Chejfec in El Interpretador