Graciela Mochkofsky

Graciela Mochkofsky is an Argentine journalist and author, widely considered one of Argentina’s most important nonfiction writers, in particular due to her investigations about the relationship between the media and the political and economic powers of Argentina. Two of her six published books have dealt with this subject.

The first, Timerman, el periodista que quiso ser parte del poder (1923-1999) (Editorial Sudamericana, 2003) a biography of legendary publisher Jacobo Timerman, was nominated to the Lettre Ulysses Award for Literary Reportage in Berlin (2004) and has become a classic of Argentina’s nonfiction literature.

Her second book on the subject, Pecado Original. Clarin, los Kirchner y la lucha por el poder (Planeta, 2011), is an investigation of the open war between the Kirchners’ goverment and the country’s largest media conglomerate Clarin.

She is currently working on a new book about an unprecedented wave of massive and unmediated conversions into Judaism throughout Latin America.

A reporter since 1991, her articles and columns have appeared in most of her country’s publications, in Spain’s El País, Mexico’s Letras Libres, and Brazil´s Piaui, among many others. She has contributed articles to Index of Censorship and The Paris Review blog.

She holds a Masters degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism (1996). In 2009, she was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. In summer 2014, she completed a year’s fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in New York City.