Antolina Ortiz Moore

Antolina Ortiz Moore has been shortlisted for the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos Literary prize in Venezuela (2020), and the Nadal Literary Competition in Spain (oldest literary prize in Spain, and one of the most important in Spanish Literature). Her last novel, Seda araña won the First Mexican Woman´s Short Novel Competition in Mexico (2019). Her first and second novels received the José Eufemio Lora y Lora & Juan Carlos Onetti International Award (Peru, 2010). Her first published book derived from her social work thesis at the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico, and was prologued by Elena Poniatowska, selling over fifty thousand copies.