Marcela Serrano
Encyclopedia
Marcela Serrano is an award-winning Chile
an novelist. In 1994, her first novel won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
for women writers in Spanish
. She received the runner-up award in the valuable Premio Planeta
competition in 2001 with her novel Lo que está en mi corazón.
Carlos Fuentes
has quoted her description of the modern woman as "having the capacity to change skin like a snake, freeing herself from the inevitability and servitude of more obsolete times".
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an novelist. In 1994, her first novel won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize] is a prize awarded to women writers in Spanish. It is organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The prize is worth 100,000 pesos...
for women writers in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. She received the runner-up award in the valuable Premio Planeta
Premio Planeta
The Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original novel written in Spanish . It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta....
competition in 2001 with her novel Lo que está en mi corazón.
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...
has quoted her description of the modern woman as "having the capacity to change skin like a snake, freeing herself from the inevitability and servitude of more obsolete times".
Books
- Nosotras que nos queremos tanto (1994) - Suma de Letras (paperback 2002), ISBN 8495501325
- Antigua Vida Mia (2000) - tr. Margaret Sayers Peden, Antigua and My Life Before: A Novel, Anchor (2001), ISBN 0385498020. Filmed by Hector OliveraHéctor OliveraHéctor Olivera is a film director, producer and screenwriter.He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has contributed to numerous films in the United States.-Biography:...
in 2001. - Lo que está en mi corazón - Booket (paperback 2003), ISBN 8408043781
- "El albergue de las mujeres tristes"- Paperback - Oct 2, 2004
- Fernanda Rogel Cortes