Patricia Laurent Kullick Explained

Patricia Laurent Kullick
Birth Date:	22 January 1962
Birth Place:	Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Death Place:	Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Occupation:	Writer
Notable Works:	Santiago's Way La giganta El circo de la soledad
Awards:	Premio Nuevo Léon de Literatura (1999)

Patricia Laurent Kullick (22 January 1962 – 2 November 2022)^[1] was a Mexican contemporary short story writer and novelist. Born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, she lived in Monterrey, Nuevo León, for the majority of her life.^[2] Her short stories and novels were written with intimate and playful tones, touching on the subject of madness and women.^[3]

Life and career

Kullick received a fellowship from Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte,^[4] and has published the collections of short stories Ésta y otras ciudades, Están por todas partes, El topógrafo y la tarántula and Infancia y otros horrores.^[5]

Her first two published novels were El circo de la soledad and El camino de Santiago, the latter being awarded the Nuevo León Prize for Literature in 1999. Three years later, it was published in English by Peter Owen Publishers (London), under the title Santiago's Way,^[6] with the Spanish edition being reprinted by Editorial Tusquets in 2001. In 2015, she published her third novel, La Giganta, with Editorial Tusquets.^[7]

Kullick died from surgical complications in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, on 2 November 2022, at the age of 60.^[8]

Literary works

Short story collections

• Ésta y otras ciudades (Tierra Adentro, 1991)
• Están por todas partes (Ayuntamiento de Ciudad Guadalupe, 1993)
• El topógrafo y la tarántula (Editorial de Papeles de la Mancuspia, 1996)
• Infancia y otros horrores (Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León, 2003)
• En domingo no es amargo, Cuentos Completos (Altasaltante, 2018)

Novels

• El camino de Santiago (Editorial Era, 2002)

Translated as Santiago's Way (Peter Owen Publishers, London, 2002)

• El circo de la soledad (Ediciones Intempestivas, 2011)
• El camino de Santiago (reprinted by Editorial Tusquets, 2015)
• La giganta (Editorial Tusquets, 2015)

Anthologies

• Norte. Una antología by Eduardo Antonio Parra (Ediciones Era, Fondo Editorial de Nuevo León, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, 2015)

Notes and References

1. News: Fallece la novelista Patricia Laurent Kullick . El Universal . 2 November 2022 . es.
2. News: Fallece Patricia Laurent Kullick, escritora nacida en Tampico . El Sol de Tampico . 2 November 2022 . es.
3. Villareal. Jaime. 2008. La razón vacía: El camino de Santiago de Patricia Laurent Kullick. Replicante. 15. 119–123. 1 March 2016.
4. Web site: Laurent Kullick Patricia. 10 May 2021. Secretaría de Cultura/Sistema de Información Cultural. es.
5. Web site: C.V. DEMOS, Desarrollo de Medios, S. A. de. 11 June 2015. La Jornada: Intenta narradora desmontar la idea de la mujer mexicana sumisa. 10 May 2021. www.jornada.com.mx. es-MX.
6. Web site: Peña. Lilia Leticia García. 1 May 2014. LA EXPERIMENTACIÓN NARRATIVA COMO BÚSQUEDA DE LA IDENTIDAD EN EL CAMINO DE SANTIAGO DE PATRICIA LAURENT KULLICK (THE NARRATIVE EXPERIMENTATION LIKE SEARCH OF THE IDENTITY IN EL CAMINO DE SANTIAGO OF PATRICIA LAURENT KULLICK). 10 May 2021. Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences. en.
7. Web site: C.V. DEMOS, Desarrollo de Medios, S. A. de. 11 June 2015. La Jornada: Intenta narradora desmontar la idea de la mujer mexicana sumisa. 10 May 2021. www.jornada.com.mx. es.
8. News: Murió la escritora mexicana Patricia Laurent Kullick; recuerdan su trabajo "alocado" y lleno de ironía . 3 November 2022 . Proceso . 3 November 2022.