Lola Copacabana

Inés Gallo de Urioste (born Buenos Aires, 1980), better known by her pseudonym Lola Copacabana or Lolita Copacabana, is an Argentine writer, translator and editor. She became known through her blog JustLola, which began in 2003 and was written in a format similar to a traditional newspaper: small paragraphs that narrated different aspects of her life, from her fascination with Simone de Beauvoir to her personal relationships. The publisher Sudamericana proposed to publish a book, which appeared under the title Buena leche.

Copacabana, Lola -FILSA 2017

In addition to carrying on her blog for ten years, she anthologized and translated into River Plate Spanish the volume Alt-lit: literatura norteamericana actual (2014, Interzona), working in collaboration with Hernán Vanoli. This volume explored the concept of alternative literature, especially as mediated through the culture and practices of the Internet.

With Vanoli she also founded the publishing house Momofuku, which published her first novel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Crimen y castigo en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (also published in Spain in 2019).

In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the best young Latin American authors writing today.[1]