Ana Merino

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Ana Merino
Born(1971-06-00)June , 1971
Madrid, Spain
OccupationPoet, writer, playwright, professor
NationalitySpanish
GenresPoetry, theatre, essay, columns
Notable worksEl mapa de los afectos
Notable awards Premio Nadal (2020)
Premio Adonáis de Poesía (1994)
Premio Fray Luis de León (2003)

Ana Merino Norverto (born June 1971) is a Spanish poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and comics scholar. She won the Premio Nadal in 2020 for her novel El mapa de los afectos. [1]

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She belongs to the so-called "Generation of 2000" of Spanish poetry, [2] and is the daughter of writer and academic José María Merino. Merino earned degrees in Modern and Contemporary History from the Autonomous University of Madrid, an MA in Columbus, Ohio, and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh with a dissertation on Ibero-American comics. She is a professor at the University of Iowa, where she founded the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing, serving as its first director from 2011 to 2018. [3] Merino is also a columnist for El País . [4]

Biography

Ana Merino was born in Madrid in 1971, daughter of José María Merino. Ana Merino was between 2004 and 2009 an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Dartmouth College. [5] She left Dartmouth in 2009 to create and develop the Spanish MFA at the University of Iowa that was inaugurated on 2011. She is a Full Professor of Spanish Creative Writing and Cultural Studies at The University of Iowa and was the founder director of their MFA in Spanish Creative Writing between 2011 and 2018. She has published two scholarly books on comics: El Comic Hispánico (Cátedra, 2003),Diez ensayos para pensar el cómic (Eolas, 2017), and a critical monograph on Chris Ware (Sinsentido 2005), a youth novel "El hombre de los dos corazones" (Anaya, 2009) and nine books of poetry, and was a recipient of the Adonais and Fray Luis de Leon awards for poetry. She was awarded the Diario de Avisos Award for best critical short articles about comics for the Spanish literary magazine Leer. In January 2020 she won the Nadal Award in Spain for her novel El mapa de los afectos.

Between 2004 and 2014 Merino was a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Cartoon Studies and between 2001 and 2011 a member of the executive committee of International Comic Art Forum. Merino's articles on comics have appeared in Leer, DDLV, The Comics Journal, International Journal of Comic Art, and Hispanic Issues. She has served as curator for four comics exhibitions and is the author of the bilingual catalogue Fantagraphics creadores del canon (2003). Ana Merino currently lives in Iowa City.

Works

Poetry

Plays

Book in Spanish by Reino de Cordelia (2013; 2 Edic 2014) publisher:http://www.reinodecordelia.es/libro.php?id=124 trailer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwgwyO-0smE

Short Theater in collections

Fiction

Poems in collections

References

  1. ↑ Geli, Carles (7 January 2020). "La prosa emocional de Ana Merino gana el Nadal". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  2. ↑ García Martín, José Luis (3 October 1999). "Generación 2000". El Cultural (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "University of Iowa profile". clas.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Ana Merino – Columns at El País". elpais.com.
  5. ↑ "Ana Merino - Dartmouth Faculty Website". Dartmouth College. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
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