Lina Meruane (Santiago de Chile, 1970). Her fiction work includes the short story collection Las infantas (1998) and the novels Póstuma (2000), Cercada (2000), Fruta podrida (2007) and Sangre en el ojo (2012, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award); the latter has been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. She has received the Cálamo Otra Mirada literary awards (Spain, 2016) and Anna Seghers (Berlin, 2011), as well as scholarships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2004), National Endowment for the Arts (2010) and DAAD Artists in Berlin (2017). Among her non-fiction books are the essay Viajes virales (2012) and the chronicle-essay Volverse Palestina (2014), winner of the Chilean Arab Culture Institute Award in 2015. She currently teaches Latin American culture and creative writing at New York University.
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