SEM Literary Agency
Vanessa Crisci
argentina
An Argentine writer and actress, her work is characterized by an intense, lyrical, and fragmentary prose, deeply rooted in the urban experience and the exploration of identity and desire. Her literary career—marked by experimentation and the pursuit of new formats—includes the novels *Los anestesiados* (2003), *Septiembre en El Raval* (2023)—a celebrated portrait of personal journeys and exiles within multicultural Barcelona—and *Tres días sin mundo*, as well as short stories, essays, and poems featured in various magazines and anthologies.
Her creativity extends beyond traditional narrative into digital and graphic realms; she is the author of the influential blog *Que se mueran los feos* and the comic *Fiona*, both of which blend humor, sensitivity, and visual experimentation. With a life divided between Argentina and Spain—where she has carried out much of her literary and acting work in theater and audiovisual productions—Crisci has established a unique voice that moves fluidly between the page, the stage, and the screen, defining herself as a contemporary, multidisciplinary artist.
BIO
work
Septiembre en El Raval (September at El Raval)
*Septiembre en el Raval* follows the journey of Ámbar, a young woman from Buenos Aires who, weary of an aimless life in her home city, decides to emigrate to Europe in search of intensity and a different destiny. Her path leads her to Barcelona—specifically to the Raval neighborhood, a multicultural urban landscape that pulses to the rhythm of its own contradictions.
The novel unfolds a universe of wandering figures—friends, lovers, strangers—who embody both the promise and the peril of reinventing oneself far from home. Through a fragmentary, lyrical, and confessional prose, the work serves as both a portrait of a cosmopolitan generation and an intimate quest for identity, belonging, and meaning.
Tres días sin mundo
(Three days without the world)
R is going through a period of decline, marked by compulsive gambling. Every day she promises to stop, and every day she begins all over again. Money loses its significance, personal bonds fray, and her world gradually shrinks into a repetitive cycle from which she cannot escape.
Amidst this downward spiral, she steals a wallet—hoping for money, but finding a planner instead. Within its pages, she discovers V’s diary, which chronicles a romantic relationship as intense as it is unstable. As she reads on, what initially seemed like someone else’s story begins to resonate in an unexpected way. The people in the planner face conflicts different from her own, yet the emotions they experience feel disturbingly familiar to her.
What began as a chance discovery turns into a new obsession. And as she follows the story of these strangers, R begins to recognize aspects of herself that, until now, she had been unable to see.
