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Liliana Colanzi Serrate (born 1981) is a Bolivian writer. [1]
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Liliana Colanzi Serrate (born 1981) is a Bolivian writer. [1]
Colanzi was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in 1981, and studied at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA) and the University of Cambridge. She obtained a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where she now teaches. [2]
She is the author of three collections of short stories: Vacaciones permanentes (2010), La ola (2014), and Nuestro mundo muerto (2016), the last of which has been translated into English by Jessica Sequeira. [3]
In 2017, Colanzi was named one of the best young writers in Latin America as part of Bogotá39. [4]
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