Marcela Serrano
Marcela Serrano (born 1951) is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, Para que no me olvides, won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book, Nosotras que nos queremos tanto, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. She received the runner-up award in the renowned Premio Planeta competition in 2001 for her novel Lo que está en mi corazón.
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Marcela Serrano
- Born
- 1951 · Santiago.
- Nationality
- Chile
- Occupation
- writer · artist
- Education
- Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
- Honours
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
- Languages
- Spanish
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Marcela Serrano (born 1951) is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, Para que no me olvides, won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book, Nosotras que nos queremos tanto, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. She received the runner-up award in the renowned Premio Planeta competition in 2001 for her novel Lo que está en mi corazón.
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Biography
Biography
Carlos Fuentes has quoted her description of the modern woman as "having the capacity to change skin like a snake, freeing herself from the inevitability and servitude of more obsolete times."
Marcela Serrano is the daughter of novelist Elisa Serrana and engineer and essayist Horacio Serrano. She is considered a "late editor" -- "I began to write at age 38 and recently at age 40, I published my first novel"—even though as a girl she wrote "dozens of books", she threw them all out. That first novel appeared in 1991: We who love ourselves very much, which was an immediate success the next year and later received two prizes. She has published a series of works, one of them was from the "género negro" and other children's books, which is ultimately joined with Margarita Maira, one of her daughters.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the heading Serrano. Her recorded language was Spanish. She was the child of Horacio Serrano and Elisa Serrana. She married Luis Maira.
Identity
Identity
Marcela Serrano is recorded as having received Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1951
Marcela Serrano born at Santiago.
Books
• Nosotras que nos queremos tanto, 1991 - Suma de Letras (paperback 2002), • Para que no me olvides, 1993 • Antigua Vida Mia, 1995 - tr. Margaret Sayers Peden, Antigua and My Life Before: A Novel, Anchor (2001),. Filmed by Hector Olivera in 2001. • Lo que está en mi corazón, - Booket (paperback 2003), • El albergue de las mujeres tristes, 1997 - Paperback - Oct 2, 2004 • Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, 1999 • Un mundo raro: Dos relatos mexicanos, 2000. • Lo que está en mi corazón, 2001 • El cristal del miedo, with Margarita Maira, 2002, • Hasta siempre, mujercitas, 2004 • La llorona, 2008 • Diez mujeres, 2011 • Dulce enemiga mía, 2013 (collection of short stories) • La Novena, novela, 2016
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- “Marcela Serrano”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Isabel Allende e Marcela Serrano: vozes chilenas na literatura latino-americana, Letrônica, 2020
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2020
Literary awards
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, 1994, Nosotras que nos queremos tanto • Santiago Municipal Literature Award, 1994, Para que no me olvides • Premio Planeta, finalist, 2001, Lo que está en mi corazón
Literature
Literature
Literature
Paisajes terapéuticos en las novelas de Marcela Serrano, 2023
Isabel Allende e Marcela Serrano: vozes chilenas na literatura latino-americana, Letrônica, 2020
Chiapas y las huérfanas del Apocalipsis ”Lo que está en mi corazón” de Marcela Serrano
The “Epidemic of Loneliness”: Illness and Love in Marcela Serrano’s El albergue de las mujeres tristes, Acta Philologica, 2023
O envelhecimento dos corpos e a questão dos gêneros: um estudo comparado de “A égua”, de Marcela Serrano, e “As tardes de um viúvo aposentado”, de Teolinda Gersão, Scripta, 2020
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- 1.Muere Elisa Serrana , autora de la generación del 50, El Mercurio, 06.09.2012; acceso el mismo día
- 2.Ximena Urrejola B El regreso de Marcela Serrano, revista Ya de El Mercurio, 13.09.2011; acceso 18.09.2011
- 3.Citada por la profesora colombiana Berta Lucía Estrada en Biografía y análisis de las obras de Marcela Serrano; acceso 02.06.2011
- 4.Karim Gálvez V. La heredera del clan Serrano, revista Ya de El Mercurio, 11.03.2003; acceso 06.08.2012
- 5.Citado por Gloria Gálvez-Carlisle en el capítulo dedicado a Marcela Serrano en el tomo 3 de Escritoras chilenas, Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1994, pág. 570
- 6.Todas las mujeres de Marcela Serrano, La Nación, 02.05.2001; acceso 02.06.2011
- 7.Verónica San Juan. Las historias de Marcela Serrano perderán erotismo al pasar al teatro, El Mercurio, 30.09.2001; acceso 06.08.2012
- 8.Pedro Gandolfo. El fin de la terapia, Revista de Libros de El Mercurio, 02.10.2011; acceso el mismo día
- 9.Marcela Serrano: En Chile "es gratis sacarle la mierda a las escritoras", Radio Cooperativa, 04.10.2011; acceso 06.08.2012
- 10.Marcela Serrano en Escritoras.com; acceso 02.06.2011
- 11.Serrano se margina de Guadalajara: "Este gobierno no me representa", La Tercera, 12.07.2012; acceso el mismo día
- 12.Carolina Andonie Dracos. Marcela Serrano ganó segundo lugar en el Premio Planeta de Novela 2001,
- 13.Serrano, Marcela. 2001. "Lo que está en mi corazón" Harper Collins; Nueva York. ISBN 978-0-06-156545-8 Editorial Planeta.
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Isabel Allende e Marcela Serrano: vozes chilenas na literatura latino-americana, Letrônica, 2020Crossref registry
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