Liliana Colanzi

Liliana Colanzi
Born
Santa Cruz de la Sierra Edit this on Wikidata
EducationUniversity of Cambridge, Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationsWriter, journalist, essayist, prosaist Edit this on Wikidata
Employer
Awards
  • Premio Internacional de Literatura Aura Estrada (2015) Edit this on Wikidata
LiteratureXchange Festival (2025) in Aarhus, Denmark

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 four collections of short stories: Vacaciones permanentes (2010); La ola (2014); Nuestro mundo muerto (2016), which has been translated into English by Jessica Sequeira[3]; and Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro.[4]

In 2017, Colanzi was named one of the best young writers in Latin America as part of Bogotá39.[5]

Works

Short story collections

  • Vacaciones permanentes (2010)
  • Nuestro mundo muerto (2016). Our Dead World, Jessica Sequeira (Dalkey Archive, 2017)
  • Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (2022). You Glow in the Dark, trans. Chris Andrews (New Directions, 2024)[6]

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "Liliana Colanzi". The Short Story Project. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "Our Dead World (Nuestro mundo muerto)". RCW Literary Agency. Archived from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "You Glow in the Dark (Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro)". Retrieved 19 February 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ "Liliana Colanzi". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  6. ↑ 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.


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