Susana Medina
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Susana Medina | |
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| Born | January 31, 1966 |
| Alma mater | Birkbeck College, London |
| Occupation | writer |
Susana Medina (31 January 1966) is an English-Spanish writer.
Career
[edit]Born in Hampshire, England of a Spanish father and a German mother of Czech origin, she grew up in Valencia, Spain, and has lived in London since 1989. Susana Medina has written and published poetry, a novel, stories, essays and a cinematographic script. She has received numerous awards, including the Max Aub International Short Story Prize in 1994.[1]
Works
[edit]She is the author of Red Tales Cuentos Rojos,[2] Souvenirs del Accidente,[3] Philosophical Toys[4] and Borgesland,[5] her doctoral thesis on Jorge Luis Borges and imaginary spaces. Her short film Buñuel's Philosophical Toys, focuses on the instances of fetishism in the films of the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Max Aub International Short Story Prize
- ^ Medina, Susana. Red Tales Cuentos Rojos. (English - Spanish). 2012. Araña Editorial, Valencia. ISBN 978-84-94000-33-1
- ^ Medina, Susana. Souvenirs del accidente. (In Spanish). Editorial Germania, Alzira (Valencia). 2004. ISBN 978-84-96147-45-4
- ^ Medina, Susana. Philosophical toys. Dalkey Archive Press, London. 2015. ISBN 978-1-62897-086-9
- ^ Medina, Susana (2006). Figments of space : space as metaphor in Jorge Luis Borges, with particular emphasis on Ficciones and El Aleph /. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ Gallix, Andrew (2019). We'll never have Paris. Repeater. ISBN 9781912248384.
External links
[edit]- Borgesland: an interview with Susana Medina
- Entrevista con la escritora Susana Medina (in Spanish)
- Review: Literature in collaboration with Susana Medina & Derek Ogbourne + Silvia Terrón & Nacho R. Piedra. Susana Medina & Silvia Terrón reading for Spain Now!
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- 1966 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
- British women essayists
- English dramatists and playwrights
- English people of Czech descent
- English people of German descent
- English people of Spanish descent
- English women novelists
- English women poets
- Spanish people of Czech descent
- Spanish people of German descent
- Spanish women writers
- Writers from Hampshire
- Writers from Valencia
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