Fernanda Trías (Uruguay, 1976) is a Uruguayan author and translator.
Fernanda Trías | |
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 LiteratureXchange Festival Aarhus (Denmark 2023) Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson | |
| Born | 1976 |
| Nationality |  Uruguay |
| Occupation(s) | writer, translator |
| Awards | Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize |
Her novels include ‘’La Azotea’’ (The Rooftop), ‘’La ciudad invencible’’ (The Invincible City), and ‘’Mugre rosa’’ (Pink Slime), as well as the short story collection ‘’No soñarás Flores’’ and the chapbook ‘’El regreso’’.
Her work has also been included in anthologies in Germany, Colombia, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, the US, and the UK, including 20/40 and Palabras Errantes. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Greek, Arabic, Polish, among others. La azotea was selected as one of the best books of the year by El País Cultural and was awarded the third prize of the National Uruguayan Literature in 2002. In 2006, she received the BankBoston Foundation Prize for National Culture. She was a friend and student of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero[1] and participated in the creation of De los flexes terpines, a collection directed by Levrero that published fifteen titles, almost all by new writers.[2] In the fifth volume of that collection, Trías published her first novella, Cuaderno para solo un ojo.
In 2004, she won the Unesco-Aschberg scholarship for writers and went to France, where she lived for five years. In 2010, She moved to Buenos Aires, where she worked as a translator, reader, and copyeditor for multiple publishing houses. In 2012, she won a scholarship to pursue an MFA in creative writing at New York University. In 2017, she won the Eñe-Casa de Velázquez Prize and residency in Madrid for her project Mugre rosa.[3] She lives in Bogotá, Colombia, where she has taught at the Universidad Nacional’s creative writing MFA. In 2019, she was selected for the writer-in-residence program at the Universidad de los Andes, where she currently lives and writes. In 2020 she was awarded the national literature prize for Mugre rosa, followed in 2021 by the Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.[4] In 2024, the English translation by Heather Cleary was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.[5] Both The Rooftop and Pink Slime were awarded a British PEN Translates Award (2020 annd 2023). In 2024 she was a finalist of the Short Story Prize Ribera del Duero (Spain) with her short-story collection "Una mujer de su época".
References
edit- ^ Rea, Robert (2021-11-23). "At the Edge of Realism". Southwest Review. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ^ Telégrafo, El (2018-06-29). "Fernanda Trías ya no distingue "entre la vida y la escritura"". El Telégrafo (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ^ "La escritora uruguaya Fernanda Trías ganó en España el Premio Residencia SEGIB-Eñe-Casa Velázquez". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ^ Demos, Editorial; Partida, Juan Carlos G. "La Jornada - Fernanda Trías gana el Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de la FIL". www.jornada.com.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ^ "The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist". The New Yorker. 12 September 2024. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
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