María Cecilia Barbetta, studied German as a foreign language and came to Germany in the 1990s on scholarships from the Goethe-Institut and the DAAD. She now resides in Berlin. She received the aspekte literature award for her first novel Änderungsschneiderei Los Milagros in 2008. She writes in German and was awarded the 2009 Adelbert von Chamisso career grant.