Belén Gache facts for kids
Belén Gache is a writer from Argentina and Spain. She writes novels and also creates special kinds of stories using computers and the internet. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1960. She now lives in Madrid, Spain. Belén studied at the University of Buenos Aires and used to teach about stories and literature there.
Her writing has changed over time. She started with regular stories, but then became a leader in something called electronic literature. Since 1996, she has made many different kinds of expanded and hypertextual writings. These are stories that you might read on a screen, where you can click links to explore different parts.
Belén Gache's Novels
Belén Gache's novels are part of a style called postmodern literature. This means they often have stories that are broken into pieces. They can feel very real, and sometimes the person telling the story might not be completely truthful. She was inspired by simple writing styles and "anti-novels," which are books that don't follow typical story rules.
Her first novel, Luna India (Indian Moon), was published in 1994. It was even considered for a special award.
Her second novel, Divina Anarquia (Divine Anarchy), came out in 1999. This book explores ideas about family history and made-up stories told by the narrator.
In 2004, she published Lunas eléctricas para las noches sin luna (Electric moons for moonless nights). This story takes place in 1910 in Buenos Aires. It was during the celebration of 100 years of Argentina's independence. Many people in Buenos Aires at that time were immigrants from Europe. The book is a detective story with political ideas. It's told by a teenage girl who loves to make up stories.
Exploring Digital Stories and Art
In 1995, Belén Gache started a group and website called Fin del Mundo (End of the World) in Buenos Aires. She worked with Gustavo Romano, Carlos Trilnick, and Jorge Haro. Here, she put her first interactive poems online. These were poems you could interact with on a computer.
In 2002, she released El libro del fin del mundo (The Book of the End of the World). This was a physical book, but it also came with a CD-ROM. It had links to more parts of the story on the internet. It mixed different types of poetry, including visual and multimedia poetry.
In 2004, she created El blog del niño burbuja (The Bubbleboy blog). This was one of the first times someone used a blog to tell a fictional story.
In 2006, she put Góngora Wordtoys (Soledades) online. This is a collection of her "net-poems" made between 1996 and 2006. It's one of her most famous works. She suggests that reading these poems is like solving a puzzle and also a fun game. The fourteen net-poems in this collection use ideas from older art movements. They use things like random choices and repeating words. They are also influenced by concrete and conceptual writing, which focuses on the look and idea of words.
A second collection, Gongora WordToys, was made in 2011. This one focuses on the famous Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Gongora. It takes apart his famous work Soledades (Solitudes). This work has been written about in books that study electronic literature.
Since 2013, Belén Gache has been working on the Kublai Moon project. This is an example of "distributed literature," which means a story spread across many different online places. She uses blogs, a tool that makes poems automatically, special fonts, and video platforms. It's a science fiction story about language. It tells the adventure of the narrator's other self, Commander Aukan, and a robot named Halim, on a trip to the moon.
Belén Gache's Essays
Belén Gache has also written essays. Her book of essays, Escrituras Nomades, del libro perdido al hipertexto (Nomadic Writings, from the lost book to hypertext), was published in 2006. In this book, she explores different kinds of experimental and nonlinear literature. She shows how electronic literature uses ideas from older art movements like Dada, concrete poetry, Oulipo, Fluxus, and conceptual writing.
She also wrote an essay called Narrating with New Media: What Happened with What has Happened?.
See also
In Spanish: Belén Gache para niños
