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Liliana Colanzi

Bolivian writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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Life

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]

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Works

Short story collections

  • Vacaciones permanentes (2010)
  • Nuestro mundo muerto (2016). Our Dead World, Jessica Sequeira (Dalkey Archive, 2017)
  • Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (2022). You Glow in the Dark, trans. Chris Andrews (New Directions, 2024)[5]

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