Susana Medina Explained

Susana Medina
Birth Date:31 January 1966
Birth Place:Hampshire, England
Occupation:writer
Alma Mater:Birkbeck College, London

Susana Medina (31 January 1966) is an English-Spanish writer.

Career

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

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://maxaub.org/premio-comarcal-de-cuentos/ Max Aub International Short Story Prize
  2. , Susana. Red Tales Cuentos Rojos. (English - Spanish). 2012. Araña Editorial, Valencia.
  3. , Susana. Souvenirs del accidente. (In Spanish). Editorial Germania, Alzira (Valencia). 2004.
  4. , Susana. Philosophical toys. Dalkey Archive Press, London. 2015.
  5. Book: Medina, Susana. 2006. Figments of space : space as metaphor in Jorge Luis Borges, with particular emphasis on Ficciones and El Aleph /. 2020-04-21.
  6. Book: Gallix, Andrew. We'll never have Paris. Repeater. 2019. 9781912248384.