Books by Paola Kaufmann

Paola Kaufmann (1969-2006) was born in Rio Negro, Argentina. In recent years, she combined fiction-writing with a successful career as a biologist and scientific researcher. In 2000 she won the Fondo Nacional de las Artes Prize with her short-story collection, The Devil's Golf Course, and in 2003 she received the Casa de las Americas Prize for The Sister. Her latest novel, The Lake (2005), won the Planeta Prize for fiction. Paola Kauffman died suddenly, after a short illness, in September 2006.