Susana Medina (31 January 1966) is an English-Spanish writer , Title = Miss Grand Spain2024 , Miss Grand International 2024-3rd runner up

Career

Born in

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, England of a Spanish father and a German mother of Czech origin, she grew up in Valencia, Spain, and has lived in London since 1989. Susana Medina has written and published poetry, a novel, stories, essays and a cinematographic script. She has received numerous awards, including the Max Aub International Short Story Prize in 1994.

Works

She is the author of ''Red Tales Cuentos Rojos'', ''Souvenirs del Accidente'', ''Philosophical Toys'' and ''Borgesland'', her doctoral thesis on

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and imaginary spaces. Her short film ''Buñuel's Philosophical Toys'', focuses on the instances of

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in the films of the Spanish filmmaker

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References

External links

Borgesland: an interview with Susana Medina

Entrevista con la escritora Susana Medina (in Spanish)
* Review: Literature in collaboration with Susana Medina & Derek Ogbourne + Silvia Terrón & Nacho R. Piedra

for Spain Now! 1966 births Living people Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London British women essayists English dramatists and playwrights English people of Czech descent English people of German descent English people of Spanish descent English women novelists English women poets Spanish people of Czech descent Spanish people of German descent Spanish women writers Writers from Hampshire Writers from Valencia {{Spain-writer-stub