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Tamara Tenenbaum with her trophy as the first winner of the Paidós Prize. R. C.
Tamara Tenenbaum Wins Paidós Prize

Tamara Tenenbaum Wins Paidós Prize

With 'A Million Rooms of One's Own', an essay on alternative ways of living in our time / The award is created to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the veteran publishing house dedicated to thought and philosophy

Miguel Lorenci

Madrid

Miércoles, 22 de enero 2025, 16:25

Tamara Tenenbaum (Buenos Aires, 1989) emerged this Wednesday as the winner of the first edition of the Paidós Prize, endowed with 35,000 euros and awarded by the eponymous publishing house. She secured it thanks to 'A Million Rooms of One's Own'. Subtitled 'Essay for an Alien Time', it proposes alternative ways of living in the 21st century. In her reflection, the Argentine writer asserts "the importance of beauty and work as identity axes and emancipatory factors, producers of equality and freedom".

The task of translating 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf's book now retitled 'A Room of One's Own', is at the origin of Tenenbaum's essay. Taking as a starting point all the questions that the endeavor raised, she proposes a rereading of Woolf's book to reflect on the current situation of women - though not only them - addressing issues such as job insecurity, love vanished in the Tinder era, food, its relationship with money, resentment as a political response, or nostalgia and the power of tradition.

"In a text rich in literary and philosophical references, but also pop culture, Tenenbaum dialogues with Virginia Woolf's classic in an essay that seeks to go beyond a manifesto and aims to be a plebeian and feminist counter-world proposal based on the importance of beauty and work as identity axes and emancipatory factors, producers of equality and freedom," her editors advance.

Poet and Narrator

Tenenbaum holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires, where she works as a lecturer. In 2017, she published the poetry collection 'Reconocimiento de terreno', and in 2018, with 'Nadie vive tan cerca de nadie', she won the Ficciones Prize for the best unpublished short story book from the Argentine Ministry of Culture. In 2019, she published the essay 'The End of Love. Loving and Fucking in the 21st Century', which has surpassed twenty editions.

She has published the novels 'All Our Curses Came True' (2021), and 'The Last Actress' in 2024. For theatre, she wrote and premiered the plays 'A House Full of Water' (2021), 'The Moiras' (2023), and 'The Longest Day in the World' (2024). As a screenwriter, she co-wrote with Erika Halvorsen the series 'The End of Love', based on her book of the same name. As a journalist, she collaborates with media such as La Nación, Infobae, Anfibia, Orsai, Vice, elDiarioAr, and elDiario.es.

Adela Cortina Orts, Adolfo García Ortega, Gabriel Rolón, Gonzalo Celorio Blasco, and Elisabet Navarro formed the jury that awarded Tenenbaum. The winning work, which will be published in Spain, Latin America, and the United States, will go on sale on February 26th.

The first edition of the Paidós Prize coincides with the 80th anniversary of the veteran label dedicated to thought and philosophy. Eight decades have passed since 1945 when two young students, Jaime Bernstein and Enrique Butelman, decided to translate Carl Gustav Jung's 'Conflicts of the Child's Soul' into Spanish. "Celebrating this anniversary is celebrating eight decades of curiosity and wonder, of asking and listening, fulfilling the motto of 'seeking great ideas wherever they are'," the editors point out.

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