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Nona Fern\u00e1ndez was born in Santiago de Chile in 1971. She initially trained as an actress and founded her own company before making her literary debut in 2000 with the short story collection \u00bbEl Cielo\u00ab (2014; tr: The Heavens). <\/p>\n\n

This was followed two years later by the novel \u00bbMapocho\u00ab (2002), which was awarded the Premio Municipal de Literatura, one of Chile’s most important literary prizes. The main character of the novel is the young Chilean woman Rucia, who travels to Santiago \u2013 the city where she grew up \u2013 for love. There she gets caught up in a labyrinth of memories, secrets, and lies that leads deeper and deeper into the history of her country. The fact that Nona Fern\u00e1ndez is also a screenwriter and playwright is reflected in her prose: her narrative texts are characterized by a preference for dialogue, an economical use of language and images of cinematographic quality. <\/p>\n\n

Her play \u00bbLiceo de ni\u00f1as\u00ab (premiere in 2015; tr: Girls\u2019 School), which brings the present and past of Chile, represented by current and former schoolgirls, into dialog with each other, was nominated for the German Youth Theatre Award 2022. The novel \u00bbLa dimensi\u00f3n desconocida\u00ab (2016; Eng. \u00bbThe Twilight Zone\u00ab, 2021) was recently published in German translation in 2024. Set during the military dictatorship in Chile, it tells the story of a member of the secret police who turns to a journalist from an opposition magazine to admit his involvement in the regime’s brutal machinations. \u00bbThrough her virtuoso combination of historical reality and literary imagination, Nona Fern\u00e1ndez not only confronts readers with a dark chapter in Chile’s history, she also opens up the subject to general questions of dealing with historical and collective trauma\u00ab, wrote the FAZ. The novel was awarded the Premio Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz and was shortlisted for the National Book Award. <\/p>\n\n

Nona Fern\u00e1ndez lives in Santiago de Chile.<\/p>\n\n

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