Gabriela Bustelo
Gabriela Bustelo is a Spanish author, journalist and translator.
Included in the 1990 neorealist generation of Spanish novelists, Bustelo made her debut with Veo Veo, which placed her in the literary Generation X. She shares with José Ángel Mañas, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria a crisp style visibly influenced by commercial culture — advertising, pop music, film and television. Gabriela Bustelo is one of the few Spanish women who have written science fiction. Her second novel Planeta Hembra, located in New York, is a dystopia that envisaged —almost two decades ago— the underlying conflict between women and men that in the 21st century has become the MeToo Movement as a global battle of the sexes. La historia de siempre jamás portrays the immorality and shallowness of European political elites. In 1996 she began to write for publications such as Vogue and Gala, having penned political columns for a decade at newspapers La Razón and La Gaceta. After signing from 2015 to 2017 a weekly tribune for the Spanish digital newspaper "Vozpópuli" and a weekly op-ed column in English for the digital newspaper "The Objective", Bustelo has been writing a weekly op-ed column for "Cuarto Poder" since September 2017. She has contributed cultural articles to Colombian magazine "Arcadia" since 2005.Translations
Bustelo has translated to Spanish the works of classics such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and well-known contemporaries including Raymond Chandler, Muriel Spark and Margaret Atwood.
