Liliana Bodoc (21 July 1958 – 6 February 2018) was an Argentine writer of fantasy.

Life

Liliana Bodoc was born in Santa Fe in 1958. When she was five years old, her family moved to Mendoza for work. There, she studied at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature. Raised as an atheist, she converted to Islam in 1994. Bodoc authored '' La Saga de los Confines'', a series of three fantasy novels that were originally published in 2000 in Spanish. The first of these books was translated into English as ''The Days of the Deer''. Her work is very popular in Latin America and her style was admired by

Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( ; Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the ''Earthsea'' fantas ...

(who died less than a month before Bodoc).The Days of the Deer
fantasybookreview.co.uk; accessed 9 February 2018.

References

1958 births 2018 deaths Argentine women novelists Women science fiction and fantasy writers People from Santa Fe Province Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{Argentina-writer-stub