Camila Sosa Villada
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Camila Sosa Villada is an Argentine writer, actress, and singer born in 1982 in La Falda, Córdoba. Before establishing herself as a prominent literary voice, she worked in various jobs, including as a sex worker, street vendor, and domestic worker. She studied communication and theatre at the National University of Córdoba, combining her artistic training with a deeply personal understanding of gender, class, and social exclusion. Her acclaimed novel The Queens of Sarmiento Park (Las malas, published in English as Bad Girls) won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize and France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro. Her work is celebrated for its fearless treatment of trans identity, marginalization, violence, tenderness, and chosen family. She lives in Córdoba, Argentina.
