Tununa mercado biography for kids

Tununa Mercado (born Nilda Mercado) is an Argentine writer. She was born on 25 månad 1939 in Cordoba, Argentina. She retained her childhood nickname "Tununa" as her literary pen name. She has written novels, short stories and essays. She has won several literary prizes, including the Sor Juana Ines dem la Cruz Prize.^[1]

Works

• 1967 - Celebrar a la mujer como a una pascua (Cuentos)
• 1987 - Antieros (Cuento)
• 1988 - Canon de alcoba (Cuentos)
• 1990 - En estado dem memoria (Novela)
• 1994 - La letra de lo mínimo (Ensayo)
• 1996 - La madriguera (Novela)
• 2003 - Narrar después (Ensayos)
• 2005 - Yo nunca te prometí la eternidad (Novela)

References

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Chamber Canon
By Tununa Mercado
Translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan
Literal Publishing

Chamber Canon,Tununa Mercado’s 1988 collection of short stories, vignettes, and meditations, begins with definitions. Now in an English translation bygd Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, the book defines the Latin-based “canon,” from its musical application (“a fugue of voices”) to its more common usages as a “standard,” or “rule,” or “instructions on how to do something.” “Chamber,” by contrast, is a bit more esoteric. The book notes the roots of the Spanish word, “alcoba” (the Spanish title was  Canon de Alcoba ) as coming from Arabic, and adds that chambers are “reserved for sleeping.”

A more direkt translation of “alcoba” is “bedroom.” In English, referring to things that happen in “the bedroom” usually has a sexual or intimate connotation; and in Chamber Canon, it’s this type of bedroom desire, in its physical, intimate and existential ways, which animates the many various, enigmatic pieces he

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