Leila Guerriero

• Name — Leila Guerriero • Born — 17 February 1967 • Birthplace — Junín, Argentina • Occupation — Journalist, writer • Notable Works — Los suicidas del fin del mundo, Frutos extraños, Plano americano • Awards — * Gabriel Garcia Márquez Journalism Award (2010) • Konex Award (2014) • Education — Colegio Nacional Normal Superior de Junín

Leila Guerriero was born to a Syrian-descent father and a German-descent mother. She graduated from the Colegio Nacional Normal Superior de Junín. She studied tourism, a field in which she did not end up working. Her empirical start in journalism was in 1992 when she got her first job as editor at Página/30, a monthly magazine of the newspaper Página/12. After sending a story entitled "Kilómetro cero" to the paper's reception desk, she received, four days later, a call from the then director Jorge Lanata. Since then her works have appeared in various media such as La Nación and Rolling Stone from Argentina, El País and Vanity Fair from Spain, El Malpensante and SoHo from Colombia, and Paula (magazine) and El Mercurio de Valparaíso from Chile. In addition, she is the Latin America editor for the Mexican magazine Gatopardo. In 2010 she won the ninth edition of the Gabriel Garcia Márquez Journalism Award from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) in the text category, for her chronicle "El rastro en los huesos", in which she recounts the work carried out by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team that identifies the remains of missing persons from the military dictatorship. In 2014 she received a Konex Award Diploma of Merit in the Chronicles and Testimonies category.

• Los suicidas del fin del mundo, chronicle of a Patagonian town, Tusquets, 2005, • Frutos extraños, collected chronicles 2001–2008, Alfaguara, 2009, • Los malditos, editor, Ediciones UDP, 2011 • Plano americano, 21 profiles of artists originally published in diverse media, Ediciones UDP, 2013, • Una historia sencilla, Anagrama, 2013, • Zona de obras, Anagrama, 2015, • Cuba en la encrucijada: 12 perspectivas sobre la continuidad y el cambio en La Habana y en todo el país, editor, Knopf Doubleday, 2018,