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Liliana Colanzi

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Liliana Colanzi
BornSanta Cruz de la Sierra Edit this on Wikidata
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  • Premio Internacional de Literatura Aura Estrada (2015) Edit this on Wikidata

Liliana Colanzi Serrate (born 1981) is a Bolivian writer.[1]

Life

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Colanzi was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in 1981, and studied at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA) and the University of Cambridge. She obtained a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where she now teaches.[2]

She is the author of three collections of short stories: Vacaciones permanentes (2010), La ola (2014), and Nuestro mundo muerto (2016), the last of which has been translated into English by Jessica Sequeira.[3]

In 2017, Colanzi was named one of the best young writers in Latin America as part of Bogotá39.[4]

Works

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  • Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (You Glow in the Dark), 2024.[5]
  • Colanzi, Liliana (18 September 2023). "The Narrow Way". The New Yorker. Retrieved 13 August 2024.

References

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  1. ^ "Los 39 jóvenes escritores latinoamericanos elegidos como los mejores del año" [The 39 young Latin American writers chosen as best of the year]. Infobae (in Spanish). 7 May 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Liliana Colanzi". The Short Story Project. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Our Dead World (Nuestro mundo muerto)". RCW Literary Agency. Archived from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Liliana Colanzi". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  5. ^ Zeiba, Drew (7 March 2024). "A Secret and Threatening Reality: On Liliana Colanzi's "You Glow in the Dark"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 13 August 2024.