Luisa Valenzuela is an Argentine post-Boom novelist and short story writer whose experimental style questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She may be best known for her work written in response to Argentina's dictatorship of the 1970s, including Como en la guerra (1977), Cambio de armas (1982) and Cola de lagartija (1983), which pair a critique of dictatorship with an examination of patriarchy and power in sexuality and gender. Her other books include the magical realist Strange Things Happen Here and the thriller Black Novel with Argentines.
