All the emotional intensity of the author of Las malas in a book of poems that has been a milestone in Argentina.
In Las novias de Sandro Camila Sosa Villada transfers all the emotional intensity of Las malas to the realm of poetry. Through a poetic travesti self who loves, hates, desires, and is desired, the book explores the mysteries of love, the body, and memory with a sensory eroticism that almost no one manages to put into words.
The poems blend joy and sorrow in every body that appears: lovers who leave, the mother rented to another family, the weariness of the father who fights against poverty, friends who have died, the beloved of the lover. Among images of blood, plants, fireflies, and heels, Sosa Villada builds an intimate mythology where magic coexists with violence, and fragility becomes strength.
Celebrated as a milestone in Argentina, Las novias de Sandro confirms Camila Sosa Villada as an author capable of bringing the travesti experience, desire, and grief to a poetic language that is wild and delicate at the same time. A book of poems that leaves a mark on any reader who dares to enter its fierce beauty.
About the author
Camila Sosa Villada (Córdoba, Argentina, 1982) studied Social Communication and Theatre at the National University of Córdoba. In 2009 she premiered her first show, Carnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti. She is the author of the poems La novia de Sandro (2015), the stories Soy una tonta por quererte (2022), and the novels Las malas (2020) and Tesis sobre una domesticación (2024).
