Costuras pendientes: Conversación con Mónica Albizúrez sobre La letrada (2023)

Mónica Albizúrez, a Guatemalan writer, has lived in Hamburg, Germany, for over a decade. Her last published work, La letrada (F&G Editores, 2023), won the first Guatemalan Biennial Novel Prize “Terrena” in 2022. A few years earlier, her first novel, Ita (F&G Editores, 2018), was a finalist in the BAM competition, while her poetry collection, Sola (Editorial Palo de Hormigo) was published in 2002. For the last few years, she has been a columnist and contributor to Gaceta and Plaza Pública. In addition to being a writer, Mónica Albizúrez is a lawyer and a PhD in Latin American Literature. She is a Professor of Spanish and Literature in Latin American Studies at the University of Hamburg, where she is also an invited researcher in the Department of History. As an academic she has published diverse articles in the fields of nineteenth-century Latin American literatures, Central American women writers and intellectuals, and migration and literary expression.