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Elsa Drucaroff is an Argentine writer and literary critic, winner of the Konex Diploma of Merit in 2024. She holds a doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, where she teaches and researches. She has given visiting lectures and graduate seminars in a host of Argentine and international universities. She has also worked as a journalist, focussing on culture, for a variety of newspapers and periodicals. She has published a huge number of articles on Argentine literature, literary and critical theory, and feminism, in academic and other publications. Her work has been translated into English and other languages.

Alongside her academic writing, she is a critically and commercially successful novelist. Her works include, in literary criticism, Mijail Bajtin, la guerra de las culturas (1995); Arlt, profeta del miedo (1998); Otro logos: signos, discursos, política (2015); Fémina Infame. Género y clase en Roberto Arlt (2022); the novels, La patria de las mujeres (1999); Conspiración contra Güemes (2000); El infierno prometido (2006); El último caso de Rodolfo Walsh (2011); and the short story collection Checkpoint (2019). She edited La narración gana la partida (Vol. 11 of the Historia crítica de la literatura argentina, general editor Noé Jitrik) and the anthologies Panorama Interzona (2013) y El nuevo cuento argentino (2016). She recently published El pasadizo secreto. Escenas de una autobiografía feminista (2024).  

More about Elsa Drucaroff at Latin American Literature Today https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/lal_author/elsa-drucaroff/