Alejandra Costamagna Crivelli (Santiago, March 23, 1970) is a writer, professor and Chilean journalist.
Of Argentine parents who arrived in 1967 to Chile fleeing the dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Alejandra recalls that his first approach to Scripture was through the daily life that began to carry irregularly from ten years in a library Chinese silk blue. But it was only girl things.
It was in the adolescence that she began to take more seriously, after entering the Francisco Miranda school (when she moved to the Queen) and thanks Professor Guillermo Gómez. This "she recommended her reading Neruda, Mistral, Shakespeare, Chaéjov and crime and punishment, from Dostoevski, a book that until today marks her writing." Also, he ordered an interview and she went to the neighborhood of her neighbor, Nicanor Parra, with whom she talked about poetry and insomnia that both shared.
At the end of the secondary, she studied journalism at Diego Portales University and frequented the workshops of Guillermo Blanco, Pía Barros, Carlos Cerda and Antonio Skármeta; She later made a master's degree in literature.
In 2010, in a self-intertendist for Paula magazine, she wondered "Are you one of those who would legalize marijuana?" And she answered: "And the pill of the day after and homosexual marriage and abortion and also euthanasia."
Costamagna held in 2011 that he likes silence ("I like this half contaminated silence by the noise of the cars, from the city that gets in the distance. It's like being alone, but accompanied. And if I need to talk, I have Paschal , my cat. But I like to be silent. Do not talk too much "), that you do not want to have children (" The idea of the family composed of mother, father, children, nanas and pets I think it's up beyond my personal option is not being a mother, I think that having children is super nice "), which did not worry about not having a massive success (" I like that my life remains normal, that writing and publishing is my happiness . That my daily life is maintained, because from that I write. That is my inspiration. If that started to distort you would regret it. I do not want my job to become a career for success, having to respond to an editorial expectation giant. I do not see myself like that ") and lamented from the stereotypes N respect to women ("that women are more weeping and who write with more sentimentality is a stereotype that makes it very badly to gender equality. And that happens with the questions of the duty to be of women with marry, have children and form a happy family ").
She was editor of the Culture and Entertainment Section of the La Nación El Nación and created the Juvenile Supplement La X. She worked on the Rock & Pop channel, in the people of Mind and Forest Park without a number, from which he was conductive. She has dictated literary workshops, has been theater commentator in newspapers and national journals, and has worked as a columnist and chronicler in various magazines.
