Mónica Ojeda Franco (born 17 May 1988) is an

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writer. A native of

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, she obtained her bachelor's degree from the

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, followed by a master's degree from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona. She is currently working on her doctorate in Madrid. Ojeda has published in several genres, including poetry, novels, and short stories. In 2017, she was named as one of the

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, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America. The other 38 included

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, the Brazilian Mariana Torres and the Mexican Gabriela Jauregui, Liliana Colanzi from Bolivia and Argentinians

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and Lola Copacabana. In January 2018, she published the novel ''Jawbone'', which tells the story of two teenage girls obsessed with horror stories and

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s, one of whom is kidnapped by her literature teacher. The book was described as "one of the novels of the season" by the Spanish newspaper

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, which ranked it 12th in its list of the 50 best books of 2018. The novel was also selected as one of the ten finalists for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize in its 2018 edition. In 2020 she was selected as one of the five finalists for the sixth edition of the Ribera del Duero Short Story Award with her unpublished book of short stories ''El mundo de arriba y el mundo de abajo'', in which she explores through horror themes such as gender violence, abortion, sexuality and religion in a style she defined as " Andean Gothic".

Works

Novels

* ''La desfiguración Silva'' (2015) * ''Nefando'' (2016). Translated in 2023 as ''Nefando'' by Sarah Booker. * ''Mandíbula'' (2018). Translated in 2022 as ''Jawbone'' by Sarah Booker and translated into French as "Mâchoires" by Alba-Marina Escalón for Gallimard. * ''Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol'' (2024)

Poetry

* ''El ciclo de las piedras'' (2015) * ''Historia de la leche'' (2019)

Short stories

* '' Caninos'' (2017), individual story * '' Las voladoras'' (2020)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ojeda, Monica 21st-century Ecuadorian women writers Living people 1988 births Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil alumni Pompeu Fabra University alumni Ecuadorian women novelists Ecuadorian women poets 21st-century Ecuadorian poets Ecuadorian novelists 21st-century novelists Ecuadorian short story writers Ecuadorian women short story writers 21st-century short story writers Writers from Guayaquil Women horror writers

Works

Novels

Poetry

Short stories

See also

References