Claudia Aboaf (Buenos Aires, January 12, 1960) is an Argentine writer, teacher, and astrologer known for her focus on climate science fiction, ecofiction, and astrology applied to literature. She resides in Tigre, Buenos Aires province, where nature and the river landscape have deeply influenced her work.
She is the author of the novels Half a Degree of Freedom (2003), Pichonas (2014), The Water King (2016), and The Eye and the Flower (2019), which make up the so-called "Water Trilogy". These works address issues such as water scarcity, extreme droughts, and environmental crises, placing them in a context of climate science fiction.
In 2022, she published her first experimental essay, Astrology and Literature: Cosmic Dialogues. Borges-Xul Solar, Pizarnik-S. Ocampo (Lumen), where she explores the relationship between the stars and literary creativity, analyzing the natal charts of writers like Borges, Xul Solar, Silvina Ocampo, and Alejandra Pizarnik.
Aboaf has been a teacher at the National University of the Arts, giving seminars on science fiction, ecofiction, and climate science fiction. She has also collaborated with national and international media with literary, feminist, and socio-environmental articles.
Additionally, she is co-founder and teacher at the astrology school Casa XI, where she has taught for fifteen years.
Her work has been included in anthologies of climate science fiction, New Weird, ecofiction, and ecofeminism in countries such as Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, France, and Italy.
Currently, Aboaf is working on a script for an audiovisual project related to lithium mining.
Her literary and academic approach has been studied at various universities around the world, establishing her as a prominent voice in contemporary Argentine literature.
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