Lina Meruane
Lina Meruane Boza (born 1970 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean writer.
Life
Lina Meruane has parents from Palestine and Italy. She is the niece of actress Nelly Meruane and comedian Ricardo Meruane.
From 2000 she studied Latin American literature at New York University and received her doctorate. In 2004 she received a writing grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and in 2010 from the National Endowment for the Arts . She teaches Latin American Studies at New York University. She founded and ran the independent publisher Brutas Editoras in New York .
Meruane made his debut in 1998 with the volume of short stories "Las Infantas". In 2011 she received the Anna Seghers Prize at the Berlin Academy of the Arts for her work . For her third novel “Sangre en el ojo” she received the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz at the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara in 2012 . In 2017 she received a scholarship from the DAAD's Berlin artist program .
Works (selection)
- Las infantas . Stories. Santiago: Planeta, 1998
- Póstuma . Santiago: Planeta, 2000
- Cercada . Cuarto Propio, Chile, 2000
- Fruta podrida . Novel. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007
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Sangre en el ojo . Novel. Santiago: Mondadori, 2012
- Red before eyes: Roman . Translation of Susanne Lange . Zurich; Hamburg: Arche, 2018
- Viajes virales: la crisis del contagio global en la escritura del sida . Essay. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2012
- Volverse palestina . Literal Publishing, 2013
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Volverse palestina / Volvernos otros . Literatura Random House, Chile, 2014
- Return to the unknown. On the way to Palestine Translation Susanne Lange . Berlin: Berenberg, 2020
- Contra los hijos . Essay. Tumbona, México 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Lina Meruane in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Lina Meruane in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Lina Meruane in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Claudia Kramatschek: Lina Meruane , at the DAAD Artists- in- Berlin Program , 2017
- Lina Meruane , at the International Literature Festival Berlin , 2010, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lina Meruane at New York University, accessed on January 19 of 2019.
- ^ Anna Seghers Prize 2011 to Sabrina Janesch and Lina Meruane , at Akademie der Künste Berlin, November 17, 2011
- ↑ Berlin artist program , accessed on January 19, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meruane, Lina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meruane, Lina Boza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |