Susana Medina

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

Susana Medina
Born (1966-01-31) January 31, 1966
Hampshire, England
Alma materBirkbeck College, London
Occupationwriter

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]

References
  1. Max Aub International Short Story Prize
  2. Medina, Susana. Red Tales Cuentos Rojos. (English - Spanish). 2012. Araña Editorial, Valencia. ISBN 978-84-94000-33-1
  3. Medina, Susana. Souvenirs del accidente. (In Spanish). Editorial Germania, Alzira (Valencia). 2004. ISBN 978-84-96147-45-4
  4. Medina, Susana. Philosophical toys. Dalkey Archive Press, London. 2015. ISBN 978-1-62897-086-9
  5. Medina, Susana (2006). Figments of space : space as metaphor in Jorge Luis Borges, with particular emphasis on Ficciones and El Aleph /. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  6. Gallix, Andrew (2019). We'll never have Paris. Repeater. ISBN 9781912248384.


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