Claudia Baricco was born in 1962 in Buenos Aires. In 1988, after graduating in  philosophy and literature in Buenos Aires, she moved  to Germany in order to study contemporary literature, film philology and German history in Munich and Bonn. Furthermore she attended  a translation and interpretation class at the Goethe-Institute and a script and film workshop in Buenos Aires.  For her research work “The Collaboration of Wim Wenders and Peter Handke” at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich she has been awarded a DAAD scholarship.
Claudia Baricco also worked as translator of sublitles for films, as a director´s assistant and as a writer and curator.

Since 1996 she works mainly as a translator of prose and drama.  In 2003 she received the translation award of the Federal Chancellery of Austria for her achievements as literary translator. For the publishing house "Adriana Hidalgo Editoria" she is  translating into Spanish a novel by Sibylle Lewitscharoff's "Apostoloff" and Walter Kappacher's book "Selina oder das andere Leben" (Selina or the other life).

In February and March 2010 Claudia Baricco spent four weeks in Ruse with the International Elias Canetti Society. The residency was supported by the programme "Building Literary Bridges" of the Robert Bosch Foundation, which supports translators of literature.