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Federico Bianchini is a journalist with a degree in Communication.

 

He won the Don Quixote (EFE/Reyes de España) and Nuevas Plumas (UDG, Mexico) awards.

 

He worked as a writer for the newspapers Clarín and La Razón, and as an editor for Anfibia magazine. He has contributed to Argentine and international media outlets, including Gatopardo, El País Semanal, and The New York Times, among others.

 

He is the author of the chronicle collections Desafiar al cuerpo (Challenging the Body) (2014), Antártida. 25 días cerrado en el hielo (Antarctica: 25 Days Locked in Ice) (2016)—for which he won the Michael Jacobs Fellowship from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation—and Cuerpos al límite (Bodies on the Limit) (2017), and the short story collection Personajes secundarios (Secondary Characters) (2018). ​

 

He has received the following awards:

*In November 2021, the play "Antarctica," which he co-wrote with Analía Fedra García, won the "Estímulo" award from Banco Ciudad and the Buenos Aires Theater Complex.

 

*In September 2019, he received a "Special Mention" in the Julio Cortázar short story contest, organized in Havana, Cuba, by the Cuban Book Institute and Casa de las Américas.

 

*In September 2018, his book "Antarctica: 25 Days Locked in Ice" was declared of Cultural Interest by the Argentine National Congress.

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* In August 2018, she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to teach a chronicle workshop at the Mariano Moreno National Library, which was held in August and September 2019.

 

* In January 2016, she received the Michael Jacobs Travel Journalism Fellowship, organized by the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism (FNPI). Her book project, published in November 2016 by Tusquets (Editorial Planeta), was selected from among 97 applications from 19 countries.

 

* In November 2015, she received the TEA Incentive Award in the Journalism in Digital Media category.

 

* In March 2013, she received the Don Quixote Award, an award presented in conjunction with the King of Spain International Journalism Awards, organized by the EFE Agency and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID). At a ceremony held in Madrid, he received the award from Her Majesty Sophie of Greece and Denmark.

 

*In November 2010, he won First Prize in the Las Nuevas Plumas International Competition for Unpublished Chronicles in Spanish, organized by the University of Guadalajara (UDG). The jury, which made a unanimous decision, was composed of writers Juan Villoro, Julio Villanueva Chang, and Juan Pablo Meneses.