Clara Obligado
Clara Obligado Marcó del Pont (born 1950) is an Argentine-Spanish writer. Biography. Clara Obligado holds a licentiate in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. Since 1976 she has lived in Madrid, a political exile of the Argentine regime known as the National Reorganization Process, and has Spanish citizenship. She was one of the first people who began to give creative writing workshops, both independently and at the National University of Distance Education, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, and the bookstore Mujeres de Madrid, among many other institutions. In 1978 she founded the Creative Writing Workshop  of Clara Obligado, one of the centers of this discipline with the longest standing in Spain and which she currently directs, teaching courses both live and at a distance. According to Juan Casamayor, editor of Páginas de Espuma (a publishing house specializing in the genre), Clara Obligado was the introducer of the micro-story in Spain, through her literary workshops. In 1996 she received the Lumen Women's Award for her novel "La hija de Marx". She is also the author of the novels "Si un hombre vivo te hace llorar", "No le digas que lo quieres", and "Salsa". In  her essay books she has addressed topics related to women and culture, as in her work "Mujeres a contracorriente". In 2012 she won the Setenil Award with her short story book "El libro de los viajes equivocados", and in 2015 the Juan March Cencillo Short Novel Award with "Petrarca para viajeros".