Susana Medina

Susana Medina
Susana Medina in 2024
Born	(1999-01-31) January 31, 1999 (age 26) Hampshire, England
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title	Miss Grand Spain 2024
Major competition(s)	Miss Grand Spain 2024 (Winner) Miss Grand International 2024 (3rd Runner-Up; Assumed)

Susana Medina (31 January 1999) is an English-Spanish writer and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Miss Grand Spain 2024 and later placed as 3rd Runner-Up at Miss Grand International 2024.

Career

Born in Hampshire, England of a Spanish father and a German mother of Czech origin, she grew up in Valencia, Spain, and has lived in London since 1989. Susana Medina has written and published poetry, a novel, stories, essays and a cinematographic script. She has received numerous awards, including the Max Aub International Short Story Prize in 1994. ^[1]

Works

She is the author of Red Tales Cuentos Rojos, ^[2] Souvenirs del Accidente, ^[3] Philosophical Toys ^[4] and Borgesland, ^[5] her doctoral thesis on Jorge Luis Borges and imaginary spaces. Her short film Buñuel's Philosophical Toys, focuses on the instances of fetishism in the films of the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel. ^[6]

References

1. Max Aub International Short Story Prize
2. Medina, Susana. Red Tales Cuentos Rojos. (English – Spanish). 2012. Araña Editorial, Valencia. ISBN   978-84-94000-33-1
3. Medina, Susana. Souvenirs del accidente. (In Spanish). Editorial Germania, Alzira (Valencia). 2004. ISBN   978-84-96147-45-4
4. Medina, Susana. Philosophical toys. Dalkey Archive Press, London. 2015. ISBN   978-1-62897-086-9
5. Medina, Susana (2006). Figments of space : space as metaphor in Jorge Luis Borges, with particular emphasis on Ficciones and El Aleph / . Retrieved 21 April 2020.
6. Gallix, Andrew (2019). We'll never have Paris. Repeater. ISBN   9781912248384.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Safiétou Kabengele	3rd Runner-up Miss Grand International (Assumed) 2024	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Eugenia Das Neves Skarxi Marte Ritassya Wellgreat Melissa Bottema Thaweeporn Phingchamrat	5th Runner up Miss Grand International 2024	Succeeded by María Angelica Valero Akisha Albert Nova Liana Melisha Lin Arlette Rujel
Preceded by Celia Sevilla	Miss Grand Spain 2024	Succeeded by Aitana Jiménez

External links

• Borgesland: an interview with Susana Medina
• Entrevista con la escritora Susana Medina (in Spanish)
• Review: Literature in collaboration with Susana Medina & Derek Ogbourne + Silvia Terrón & Nacho R. Piedra. Susana Medina & Silvia Terrón reading for Spain Now!