Liliana Colanzi Explained

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 three collections of short stories: Vacaciones permanentes (2010), La ola (2014), and Nuestro mundo muerto (2016), the last of which has been translated into English by Jessica Sequeira.^[3]

In 2017, Colanzi was named one of the best young writers in Latin America as part of Bogotá39.^[4]

Works

• Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (You Glow in the Dark), 2024.^[5]
• Web site: Colanzi . Liliana . 18 September 2023 . The Narrow Way . 13 August 2024 . The New Yorker.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 7 May 2017 . Los 39 jóvenes escritores latinoamericanos elegidos como los mejores del año . The 39 young Latin American writers chosen as best of the year . 13 August 2024 . . es.
2. Web site: Liliana Colanzi . 13 August 2024 . The Short Story Project.
3. Web site: Our Dead World (Nuestro mundo muerto) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240523205840/https://www.rcwlitagency.com/books/our-dead-world-nuestro-mundo-muerto/ . 23 May 2024 . 13 August 2024 . RCW Literary Agency.
4. Web site: Liliana Colanzi . 13 August 2024 . Library of Congress.
5. Web site: Zeiba . Drew . 7 March 2024 . A Secret and Threatening Reality: On Liliana Colanzi’s “You Glow in the Dark” . 13 August 2024 . Los Angeles Review of Books.