Liliana Colanzi


Liliana Colanzi Serrate is a Bolivian writer.

Life

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

Works

Short story collections

Vacaciones permanentes Nuestro mundo muerto. Our Dead World, Jessica Sequeira Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro. You Glow in the Dark, trans. Chris Andrews