Mariana Torres (writer)

Mariana Torres
Born	1981 (age 39–40)
Nationality	Braziian
Occupation	Writer

Mariana Torres (born 1981) is a Brazilian writer. She studied creative writing in Madrid, film in Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid, and chemistry in Autonomous University of Madrid. Her first book, a short story collection titled El cuerpo secreto, was published in 2015, and her work has been anthologized in a number of publications.

She is a founder member of Escuela de Escritores, a creative writing institute. She is also a part of Connecting European Literary Artists, which was created with the intention of bringing together young writers and translators in a variety of European languages and is run by the Dutch institution Wintertuin.

She directed the short film Rascacielos, which has been exhibited in more than 40 film festivals, winning prizes in the USA, Italy, Australia, UK and Slovenia.

In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America.

She lives in Madrid.^[1]

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