Liliana Colanzi

Bolivian writer

University of Cambridge
Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Employer

Cornell University

Awards

Premio Internacional de Literatura Aura Estrada (2015)

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

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]

Works

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

^ "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.
^ "Liliana Colanzi". The Short Story Project. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
^ "Our Dead World (Nuestro mundo muerto)". RCW Literary Agency. Archived from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
^ "Liliana Colanzi". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
^ 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.