Giovanna Pollarolo

Giovanna Pollarolo earned her doctorate in Spanish from the University of Ottawa. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and her master’s at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. As an academic, she has published De aventurero a letrado: El discurso de Pedro Dávalos y Lissón (2016) and Nuevas aproximaciones a viejas polémicas: cine y literatura (2019) and co-edited along with Sol Paz and Diana Pifano Cuando escribo YO, hablo de mí? Narrativas del YO en Hispanoamérica (2025), as well as contributing various articles to specialized journals on contemporary Hispano-American narrative and intersections between film and literature. She currently directs the PUCP’s master’s in creative writing. As a creative writer, she has published the poetry collections Huerto de los olivos (1986), Entre mujeres solas (1991, 1995, 2000), La ceremonia del adiós (1997, 1998), and Entre mujeres solas: Poesía reunida (Alfaguara, 2013). In the late eighties and nineties she wrote screenplays including La boca del lobo and Caídos del cielo with Augusto Cabada and Pantaleón y las visitadoras and No se lo digas a nadie with Enrique Moncloa, as well as Tinta roja and Ojos que no ven in the early two thousands. As a fiction writer, she has published the short story collections Atado de nervios (Alfaguara, 1999) and No podemos explicar por qué lloramos (Planeta, 2025), the novel Dos veces por semana (Alfaguara, 2008, 2015), and the historical tale Tacna en el tiempo de Chile (Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2024).