Liliana Colanzi, affiliate professor of Latin American research within the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S), has gained the 2025 Zinklar Award, which honors brief story authors. Colanzi’s award is the primary Zinklar Prize to honor Spanish language fiction.
“I’m deeply honored and thrilled to obtain this award—it got here as a whole shock,” Colanzi stated. “I’m grateful to the impartial publishing home Silkefyret and to my translators, Sabine Dueholm Bech and Marie Groth Bastiansen, for bringing my tales to Danish readers. I’m additionally grateful to the Division of Romance Research at Cornell for his or her assist.”
Colanzi, who’s from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, is understood for her speculative fiction. She has three full-length brief story collections; two have gained awards and have been translated into a number of languages, together with her 2022 ebook, “Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro” (“You Glow within the Darkish”), receiving the Ribera de Duero Prize honoring the most effective brief tales in Latin America and Spain.
