Apr
16
This section contains archived content made available for reference, research, or recordkeeping purposes. These materials are not actively maintained and may not meet current accessibility standards, such as WCAG 2.1 Level AA. If you need assistance accessing this content or require an accessible format, please contact sohwebmaster@uci.edu. We are committed to ensuring access for all users and will provide accommodations promptly upon request.
Lina Meruane is a writer and holds a PhD in literature from NYU. Her work includes two collections of short stories and five novels translated into twelve languages, as well as ten books of essays on the body and illness, feminisms, and the Palestinian question. Her work has been recognized with the José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize (Chile), the Blue Metropolis Prize (Canada), the Cálamo Prize (Spain), the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Mexico), the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany), and writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (USA), the NEA (USA), and the DAAD (Germany), among others. She teaches creative writing at New York University.
In "A corazón abierto: notas para una escritura quirúrgica" Lina Meruane (daughter of a retired cardiologist) addresses the emergence of the “open heart” in Latin American fiction. Inspired by The Intruder (2006), Jean-Luc Nancy’s account of his heart transplant, Meruane examines real disorders (including her recent episode of arrhythmia) and comments on ethical and aesthetic issues in three surgical novels: Sutura (2025) by Sofía Balbuena, The Novel of the Heart (2022) by Roberto Castillo, and Everything Is Fine, Except My Heart (2022) by Héctor Abad Faciolince
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The talk will be in Spanish.
HG 1010