Carolina Sanín
COLOMBIA, 1973
Carolina Sanín Paz was born in Bogotá. She received a Ph. D. in Hispanic Literature from Yale University, with a thesis on short story collections from the Middle Ages. Between 1998 and 2005 she lived in Barcelona, where she worked as a translator for several publishing houses.
She has written novels, essays, children's stories and short stories. Some of her work has been translated into Italian. She has been a university professor, and is a regular contributor to major publications such as El Espectador and Semana. Her work appears in anthologies in Latin America, the United States and Spain.
Colombian Carolina Sanín is one of the most astute and uncomfortable thinkers in feminism today.
Babelia, El País
«Carolina Sanín's prose is solid in its search and fanciful in its findings. A great celebration of language to which all readers are invited».
Xavier Rodríguez Ruera, Zenda
PUBLISHED BY: Spanish PRH / SANTILLANA / LAGUNA / SIRUELA/BLATT & RÍOS / ALMADÍA | Argentina AMPERSAND | English MACLEHOSE PRESS | Italian ISCHIRE
By Carolina Sanín
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NOVEL, 2022
From the author of We Are Abysmal Lights, we present The Sun: a luminous, mysterious book that masterfully blurs the genres of essay, poetry and fiction. «Every living thing wants to see...
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NON FICTION, 2021
Nine Nights Before Christmas is an invitation to rediscover a reading community. In this book, Carolina Sanín and Powerpaola explore the different meanings of the birth of Jesus as they...
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NON FCITION, 2020
Noticing as You Go is a collection of Carolina Sanín's best newspaper columns. Published since 2008 in publications including El Espectador , Arcadia , Vice , Credencial and Semana...
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NOVEL, 2020
A book about love in all its forms. Neither fiction nor non-fiction, Your Cross in the Empty Sky tells the story of two people who connect across social networks. One is in Colombia, the other in...
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NON FICTION, 2018
In We are Lights from the Abyss , Carolina Sanín delves back through her memories, readings and especially her language to explore, understand and question different facets of herself and...
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CHILDREN, 2018
What kind of commotion might be caused by the appearance of a cat in a village that has never seen a cat before? The writer Carolina Sanín appears to have invented a new language to...
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SHORT STORIES. 2016
She said she'd seen the door was open and went inside thinking she'd find someone. She'd heard that on the first floor of the building was a working farm with ducks, hens and everything. After...
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NOVEL, 2014
One day, as she enters her local supermarket, Laura Romero has a startling encounter with a beggar, who seems to offer her a child. A short while later, in the middle of the night, she discovers a...
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CHILDREN, 2010
Dahlias are many-petaled flowers that live in fields and gardens. Dahlias come in many different colours and some are almost black. One kind of dahlia travels on the wind and through the world of...
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