Awards and Recognitions

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literary Prize

© Sergio López

2017

Nona Fernández

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Chile, 1971

An actress and writer, Nona Fernández (Santiago de Chile, 1971) has published the short story collection El cielo (2000) and the novels Mapocho (2002), Av. 10 de Julio Huamachuco (2007)— both winners of the Municipal Literature Prize— Fuenzalida (2012), Space Invaders (2013), and Chilean Electric (2015), winner of the Best Literary Works Prize from Chile’s Book Council.

In 2011, she was selected by the Guadalajara International Book Fair as one of the 25 Best-Kept Secrets of Latin American Literature.