Susana Medina
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Spain
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writer. Born in Hampshire
Hampshire
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, England
England
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of a Spanish father and a German mother of Czech origin, she grew up in Valencia, Spain, and has resided 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.
She is the author of Cuentos Rojos, Souvenirs del Accidente, Philosophical Toys and Borgesland, her doctoral thesis on Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
and imaginary spaces. Her short film Buñuel's Philosophical Toys, focuses on the instances of fetishism
Fetishism
A fetish is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others...
in the films of the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...
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