State of Exile

Cristina Peri Rossi (born 12 November 1941 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan novelist, poet, short-story writer, and translator, and one of the few women associated with the Latin American Boom generation. She published her first book, the story collection Viviendo, in 1963, and went on to write across genres, with exile, eroticism, and urban life as recurring themes — most notably in the novel La nave de los locos (1984) and the poetry collection Estado de exilio. In 1972, following the rise of Uru...