Camila Sosa Villada Author

Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Córdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor and maid. She holds degrees in communication and theatre from the National University of Córdoba. Her play Carnes tolendas, retrato escénicode un travesti was selected for the 2010 National Theater Festival held in La Plata. Her first novel, The Queens of Sarmiento Park, won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in Mexico, the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro in France, and the Premio de Narrativa en Castellano in Spain.