Susana Medina

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Susana Medina
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Susana Medina in 2024
Born (1999-01-31) January 31, 1999 (age 26)
Hampshire, England
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title Miss Grand Spain 2024
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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.

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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 3rd Runner-up Miss Grand International
(Assumed)

2024
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
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Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Skarxi Marte
Flag of Indonesia.svg Ritassya Wellgreat
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Melissa Bottema
Flag of Thailand.svg Thaweeporn Phingchamrat
5th Runner up Miss Grand International
2024
Succeeded by
Flag of Colombia.svg María Angelica Valero
Flag of Curacao.svg Akisha Albert
Flag of Indonesia.svg Nova Liana
Flag of Malaysia.svg Melisha Lin
Flag of Peru.svg Arlette Rujel
Preceded by
Celia Sevilla
Miss Grand Spain
2024
Succeeded by
Aitana Jiménez