Fernanda Melchor

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

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

Biography

Melchor obtained a degree in Journalism from Universidad Veracruzana[4] where she was Coordinator of Communication of the Veracruz-Del Río campus.

She 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 and Falsa Liebre, this last being her first novel.

Hurricane Season[5] - a fiction novel based on the crisis of forbidden disappearance in her state, Veracruz, was featured as one of the best novels in Mexico in 2017[6][7][8] It has been translated to German by Angelica Ammar, and to English by Sophie Hughes. The novel won the 2020 International Literature Award of the Haus der Kulturen in Germany,[9] and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize.

In 2015 she was included in a Conaculta's anthology as one of the featured Mexican authors under 40 years old.[10]

In 2018 she won the PEN Mexico Award for Literary and Journalistic Excellence[11]

In 2019 she won the International Literature Award as well as the Anna Seghers-Preis along with the German writer Joshua Gross.[12]

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. "Women Dominate Booker International Prize Shortlist". The New York Times.
  4. UV, Departamento de Prensa. "En mis obras hablo del Veracruz que no se ve: Fernanda Melchor – Universo – Sistema de noticias de la UV" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  5. 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.
  6. Quezada, José (2018-04-17). "El frenesí de la escritura: una entrevista a Fernanda Melchor". Chilango (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  7. Ortuño, Antonio. "Por fin". Letras Libres (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  8. Carrión, Jorge (2017-12-17). "Los libros de ficción de 2017: una selección iberoamericana". The New York Times (in Spanish). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  9. 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.
  10. Mazón, Selene (2017-06-26). "Temporada de huracanes, la nueva novela de Fernanda Melchor". Gatopardo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  11. "Dan premio de excelencia periodística a Adriana Malvido, columnista de EL UNIVERSAL". El Universal (in Spanish). 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  12. "Anna-Seghers-Preis für Fernanda Melchor und Joshua Groß". berlin.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-07.
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