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{{short description|English-Spanish writer}}
{{Third-party|date=October 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Susana Medina
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1966|1|31}}
| birth_place = [[Hampshire]], England
| occupation = writer
| alma_mater = [[Birkbeck College]], London
}}
'''Susana Medina''' (31 January 1966) is an English-Spanish writer
|Title = Miss Grand Spain2024
|Miss Grand International 2024-3rd runner up
== Career ==
Born in [[Hampshire]], 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.<ref>[http://maxaub.org/premio-comarcal-de-cuentos/ Max Aub International Short Story Prize]</ref>
== Works ==
She is the author of ''Red Tales Cuentos Rojos'',<ref>{{aut|Medina}}, Susana. ''Red Tales Cuentos Rojos''. (English – Spanish). 2012. Araña Editorial, Valencia. {{ISBN|978-84-94000-33-1}}</ref> ''Souvenirs del Accidente'',<ref>{{aut|Medina}}, Susana. ''Souvenirs del accidente''. (In Spanish). Editorial Germania, Alzira (Valencia). 2004. {{ISBN|978-84-96147-45-4}}</ref> ''Philosophical Toys''<ref>{{aut|Medina}}, Susana. ''Philosophical toys''. Dalkey Archive Press, London. 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-62897-086-9}}</ref> and ''Borgesland'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Medina|first=Susana|date=2006|title=Figments of space : space as metaphor in Jorge Luis Borges, with particular emphasis on Ficciones and El Aleph /|url=http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/385267|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref> her doctoral thesis on [[Jorge Luis Borges]] and imaginary spaces. Her short film ''Buñuel's Philosophical Toys'', focuses on the instances of [[fetishism]] in the films of the Spanish filmmaker [[Luis Buñuel]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gallix|first=Andrew|title=We'll never have Paris|publisher=Repeater|date=2019|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CytqDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Bu%C3%B1uel%E2%80%99s+Philosophical+Toys%22+short+film&pg=PT561|isbn=9781912248384}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/buzzwordsblog/2006/09/borgesland-interview-with-susana.html Borgesland: an interview with Susana Medina]
* [https://www.babab.com/2014/01/17/entrevista-con-susana-medina/ Entrevista con la escritora Susana Medina (in Spanish)]
* Review: Literature in collaboration with Susana Medina & Derek Ogbourne + Silvia Terrón & Nacho R. Piedra. [http://www.derekogbourne.net/News_And_Selected_Reviews/Entries/2010/11/1_Spain_Now.html Susana Medina & Silvia Terrón reading] for Spain Now!
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[[Category:1966 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London]]
[[Category:British women essayists]]
[[Category:English dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:English people of Czech descent]]
[[Category:English people of German descent]]
[[Category:English people of Spanish descent]]
[[Category:English women novelists]]
[[Category:English women poets]]
[[Category:Spanish people of Czech descent]]
[[Category:Spanish people of German descent]]
[[Category:Spanish women writers]]
[[Category:Writers from Hampshire]]
[[Category:Writers from Valencia]]
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