''Women's Writing in Colombia: An Alternative History'' is a 2016 monograph by Cherilyn Elston, a scholar and translator at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

. Based on her doctoral thesis, the book surveys writing by

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

n women since the 1970s. It won the

Latin American Studies Association The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest association for scholars of Latin American studies. Founded in 1966, it has over 12,000 members, 45 percent of whom reside outside the United States (36 percent in Latin America and the ...

's Montserrat Ordóñez prize in 2018. It was positively reviewed in the ''Bulletin of Spanish Studies,'' ''Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature,'' and ''Perifrasis.''

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2016 non-fiction books Books about Colombia Feminism and the arts {{lit-book-stub