Chile. Chilean writer and critic. Among her critical books are: Text and ideology in Chilean narrative (1987), The fragmented woman: Stories of a sign (Casa de las Américas Prize, 1994), Theoretical foundations of feminist criticism (2007), Woman, body, and writing in the narrative of María Luisa Bombal (2012), The alien city: Mapuche subjectivities in urban spaces (Casa de las Américas Prize, 2013), and City, gender, and urban imaginaries in Latin American narrative (2013). Fiction texts: Beyond the masks (1984) (Gabriela Mistral Prize), Strange fruits (1992) (Golden Letters Prize in the United States, 1991, and Municipal Prize in Chile, 1992), Fierce doll (1993), The hidden domains (1998), The nights of Carmen Miranda (2002), Lucifer's tracks (2014), Werewolf traverses (2015), and With a shadow's voice (2017). Her texts have been translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Swedish.