A very old memory. The first thing I write in my life is my male name. I learn a small part of myself. The useless journey starts announcing anxieties and wonders.
With unusual intensity and rage, Camila Sosa Villada, author of The bad, rehearses in an autobiographical key the story of a drift that goes from childhood to the subsequent exercise of prostitution, the transition from transvestism to the theater, and the clash with writing as a place of possibility and danger, of expression of vitality and erasure. The futile journey is a one-way trip.
"I write, in the way, as alcoholic are my words as my dad was and as helpless and unstable as my mother was." Camila Sosa Villada.
In 2009, Villada premiered her play ‘Carnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti’, a biodrama of her life that fused her personal experiences that she recorded on her blog, ‘La Novia de Sandro’, with the poetry of Federico García Lorca1. Her first novel, ‘Las malas’ (2019), about a group of travestis who practice street prostitution in Parque Sarmiento, became a critical and public success and catapulted her to fame, establishing her as one of the most original writers of contemporary Argentine literature and LGBT literature in Argentina. The work won numerous literary awards, such as the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and was translated into several languages such as French, English, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish.
She set the example for other transgender women, proving that a career from a street worker to a famous writer and actress is possible. This is what she said about her childhood: "As a child, I imagined that I was going to act, that I would do theater, cinema, but not that I was going to live from this. I started dressing at the age of 16 in a village of 5000 inhabitants. I know very well what it was like to be a transvestite in a town like that 20 years ago. It was doubly burdensome."
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