Born: 1970, Chile
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Lina Meruane Boza
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Chile born, bred, and educated until moving to New York City, Lina Meruane has spent the past decade writing fiction in Spanish in the U.S. In recent years she has published several short stories in Latin American, Spanish and German collections as well as in American magazines (Two Lines and Bomb´s First Proof); she also wrote here her last novel, Fruta Podrida (Rotten Fruit) (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2007) with support from the Guggenheim Foundation. Her works published in Chile include a collection of short stories, Las Infantas (Planeta, 1998) and two novels Póstuma (Planeta, 2000) and Cercada (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2000). A cultural journalist and columnist and a recent PhD in Latin American Literature from New York University, she has taught fiction in the Creative Writing in Spanish MFA at NYU and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University.