Brenda Lozano

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Brenda Lozano
Brenda Lozano at FILSA 2017
Brenda Lozano at FILSA 2017
BornBrenda Lozano Vázquez
(1981-06-12)12 June 1981
Mexico City
LanguageSpanish
NationalityMexican
Alma materIbero-American University
GenreNovels, short stories


Brenda Lozano (born 1981) is a Mexican writer best known for her novel Loop which won the PEN Award on Translation.

Career[]

She studied literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She has published two novels, Todo nada and Cuaderno ideal, and a book of short fiction Cómo piensan las piedras. In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogota 39, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America.[1]

Cuaderno ideal was translated into English by Annie McDermott under the title Loop. In 2019 Loop was granted the PEN Award on Translation.[2][3]

On the 16th of August, 2021 Brenda Lozano was named cultural aggregate to the Mexican embassy in Spain by the Secretary of Exterior Relations.[4]On the 20th of August, 2021 the president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected the appointment of Brenda Lozano as a cultural aggregated to the Mexican embassy in Spain and proposed an indigenous poet on her place.[5]

List of works[]

  • Todo nada (2009)
  • Cuaderno ideal / Loop (2014)
  • Cómo piensan las piedras (2017)
  • Brujas (2020)

Awards[]

  • PEN Award on Translation (2019)

References[]

  1. ^ Bio
  2. ^ Francis, Gavin (December 26, 2019). "Loop by Brenda Lozano review – a glorious tapestry of ideas". The Guardian. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  3. ^ Williams, John (August 18, 2021). "In This Novel, the Stream of Consciousness Is More Like a Whirlpool". The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  4. ^ "La Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores anuncia la designación de la nueva agregada cultural en la Embajada de México en España". Secretary of Exterior Relations (in Spanish). August 16, 2021. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  5. ^ Lambertucci, Constanza. "López Obrador descarta a Brenda Lozano como agregada cultural en España y propone a una poeta indígena". El País (in Spanish). El País. Retrieved 20 August 2021.

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