Fernanda Melchor
Fernanda Melchor Pinto (born 1982 in Boca del Río ) is a Mexican writer.
Life
Fernanda Melchor studied journalism at the Universidad Veracruzana and worked in public relations at the university. She writes for various magazines and published her first novel Aquí no es Miami in 2013 .
Her novel Temporada de Huracanes (English title: Season of Cyclones ), published in 2017, has been translated into several languages and has received international awards. The English translation by Sophie Hughes was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020 .
Awards
- 2019: International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures , together with the translator Angelica Ammar, for the season of cyclones
- 2019: Anna Seghers Prize
Works (selection)
- Wed Veracruz . Children's book (2008)
- Aquí no es Miami (2013)
- Falsa Dear (2013)
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Temporada de Huracanes (2017)
- Cyclone season. Novel . Angelica Ammar in Romanian. Wagenbach, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8031-3307-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Fernanda Melchor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Fernanda Melchor in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Fernanda Melchor at perlentaucher.de
- Fernanda Melchor , at escritores, 2012 (es)
Individual evidence
- ↑ International Literature Prize for Fernanda Melchor , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on June 18, 2019
- ^ Anna Seghers Prize for Fernanda Melchor and Joshua Groß. May 14, 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melchor, Fernanda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Melchor Pinto, Fernanda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boca del Río |