Socorro Venegas
Mexico, 1972
Socorro Venegas is a writer and editor. She has received the Benemérito de América National Story Award; the Carlos Fuentes National Award for the First Novel; the León Book Fair Award for Promotion of Literature; honorable mention in the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award 2010; and the Juan Pablos Award for Editorial Merit 2024.
Her stories have been translated into English and French and included in several anthologies. She is currently General Director of Publications and Editorial Promotion at UNAM and writes the column ‘Airplane Mode' for the online literary publication Literal Magazine.
«In his stylistic clarity, ambiguity, uncertainty, fragility and the subtleties between silence and over-understanding pulsate. The spaces in which the literature called to endure is built»
Sergio González Rodríguez, Reforma
«Venegas's narrative work points to several of those other possibilities of writing that are becoming increasingly rare and precious: the insistence on the varied and rich experience in the world, the recovery of intimacy, the imagination without restraints or instructive»
Alberto Chimal, Excélsior
«Difficult to find in this era a narrator with such poetic impulse»
Agustín Cadena, La Jornada
PUBLISHED BY: Argentina LA PARTE MALDITA | Brazil ARTE & LETRA | Czech Republic RUNA | Colombia BABEL LIBROS | Italy VENTANAS | Mexico ERA | Spain PÁGINAS DE ESPUMA / TUSQUETS / EDITORIAL CONTRASEÑA
By Socorro Venegas
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The Night will be Black and White
NOVEL, 2024
After ten years without hearing a word from her father, Andrea, the protagonist and narrator of The Night will be Black and White , gets a call from him asking her to come to Denver. Although she...
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MEMORIES, 2022
‘There's nothing for me any more. Just an inexhaustible procession of cold, metallic nights.' ‘What I need is to feel a little hope.' ‘No-one could possibly envy me.' These lines...
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SHORT STORIES, 2019
Picture a girl forced to look for a father who is, no bones about it: a drunk. Picture a mother whose pregnancy has devolved into self-absorption and emptiness after the birth. Finally, picture a...
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NOVEL, 2014
Just when she feels that she's getting over being widowed and putting the pain of the loss behind her with a new husband and child, a woman is confronted with loose ends from her past in the form...
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