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Fernanda Melchor
Born(1982-01-01)January 1, 1982
Veracruz, Mexico
OccupationNovelist
EducationUniversidad Veracruzana
GenreLiterary fiction

Fernanda Melchor (born 1982, Veracruz, Mexico) is a Mexican writer best known for her novel Hurricane Season[1][2] for which she won the 2019 Anna Seghers Prize[3] and a place on the shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize.[4]

Biography

Melchor obtained a degree in Journalism from Universidad Veracruzana[5] where she was Coordinator of Communication of the Veracruz-Del Río campus.

Melchor has published fiction and nonfiction short stories and novels in publications as The Paris Review, La Palabra y el Hombre, Excélsior, Replicante, Milenio semanal, Le Monde Diplomatique, Vice Latinoamérica, GQ Latinoamérica and Vanity Fair Latinoamerica. She began her writing career in 2013 with the publishing of Aquí no es Miami (2013), a collection of literary journalism, and Falsa Liebre (2013), her first novel.

Hurricane Season[6] —a novel based on the murder of a witch in a small town in Melchor's home state, Veracruz—was featured as one of the best novels in Mexico in 2017[7][8][9] The book has been translated into German by Angelica Ammar and into English by Sophie Hughes. It won the 2020 International Literature Award of the Haus der Kulturen in Germany,[10] and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize.

In 2015 Melchor was included in a Conaculta's anthology as one of the featured Mexican authors under 40 years old.[11]

In 2018 she won the PEN Mexico Award for Literary and Journalistic Excellence[12]

In 2019 she won the International Literature Award as well as the Anna Seghers-Preis along with the German writer Joshua Gross.[13]

Bibliography

  • Aquí no es Miami (2013)
  • Falsa liebre (2013)
  • Hurricane Season (2017)
  • Páradais (2021)

Recognitions

  • Winner of the First Essay Contest on Lynching by the CNDH, 2002
  • Winner of the Literary Virtuality Casa de Letras, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2007
  • Winner of the Journalism Award of the Journalism Foundation Rubén Pabello Acosta, 2009
  • Winner of the Chronicle National Award Dolores Guerrero, 2011
  • Winner of the Pen Club Prize for Journalistic and Literary Excellence, 2018
  • Winner of the International Literature Award, 2019
  • Winner of the Anna Seghers-Preis, 2019 for Hurricane Season
  • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 for Hurricane Season

References

  1. ^ "Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor review – intense and inventive". The Guardian.
  2. ^ "A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "anna-seghers.de - Anna-Seghers-Stiftung". www.anna-seghers.de. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  4. ^ "Women Dominate Booker International Prize Shortlist". The New York Times.
  5. ^ UV, Departamento de Prensa. "En mis obras hablo del Veracruz que no se ve: Fernanda Melchor – Universo – Sistema de noticias de la UV" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  6. ^ Ferri, Pablo (2017-06-17). ""¿De qué sirve el amor cuando te estás ahogando?"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  7. ^ Quezada, José (2018-04-17). "El frenesí de la escritura: una entrevista a Fernanda Melchor". Chilango (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  8. ^ Ortuño, Antonio. "Por fin". Letras Libres (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  9. ^ Carrión, Jorge (2017-12-17). "Los libros de ficción de 2017: una selección iberoamericana". The New York Times (in Mexican Spanish). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  10. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Nightmarish realism: Fernanda Melchor on the haunting voices of 'Hurricane Season' | DW | 19.06.2019". DW.COM. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  11. ^ Mazón, Selene (2017-06-26). "Temporada de huracanes, la nueva novela de Fernanda Melchor". Gatopardo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  12. ^ "Dan premio de excelencia periodística a Adriana Malvido, columnista de EL UNIVERSAL". El Universal (in Spanish). 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  13. ^ "Anna-Seghers-Preis für Fernanda Melchor und Joshua Groß". berlin.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-07.
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