Laura Zuñiga Orta
Mexican narrator
Mexican narrator
Mexican storyteller and author of three books
Rachel de Queiroz published over twenty-five novels, plays, crônicas and memoirs, among them O Quinze (The Fifteen) (1930), As três Marias (The Three Marias) (1939) and Dôra Doralina (1975).
Rosa Regàs is the author of six novels, including La canción de Dorotea (Dorotea’s Song), which won the 2001 Planeta Prize, and Música de Cámara (Chamber Music) (2013); four short story collections, including Viento armado (Armed Wind) (2006); and numerous non-fiction books and articles.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen is the author of thirteen books of poetry including O nome das coisas (The Name of Things) (1977), Geografia (Geography) (1967), and Ilhas (Islands) (1989).
An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection “Sidewalks”; the novels “Faces in the Crowd” and “The Story of My Teeth”; “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions” and “Lost Children Archive: A Novel.”
Zee Edgell is the author of four novels including Beka Lamb (1982), In Times Like These (1991), and Time and the River (2007).
Yamila Bêgné has published four collections of short stories and three novels, including Los límites del control (The Control Limits) (2017), Cuplá (2019), and La Máquina de febrero (The February Machine) (2021).
María Dueñas’s first novel, The Time in Between, published in 2009, became a worldwide publishing success and is the one that first brings her fame.
Marie Thérèse Colimon-Hall wrote three plays, a novel, a collection of short stories and numerous collections of poetry and essays. She is considered one of Haiti’s most prominent female authors.