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Lina Meruane in conversation with Ingrid Bejerman

The Importance of the Everyday. Metrópolis Azul Prize

Arequipa 2023, Friday 10 November 2023

The novelist, essayist and cultural journalist Lina Meruane (Chile) has received the 2023 Metrópolis Azul Prize for her body of work. Meruane lectures in Creative Writing, Literature and Hispano-American Culture at the University of New York and her novels, short stories and essays have won various distinctions and awards, including a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and the Anna Seghers, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso prizes. In conversation with the journalist and cultural manager Ingrid Bejerman, the author will talk about some of her most recent works, such as Fruta podrida, Seeing Red and Volverse palestina.