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Her academic and fictional oeuvre includes
essays, short stories, plays and poems. Her
testimonies "Una versión de mí misma" and "Sobrevivencias"
won literary prizes in contests organized by the
University of Alberta (1982) and York University
(1990), respectively.
Her most recent book, a testimonial novel
titled Una sola muerte numerosa (North-South Center at
the University of Miami, 1997), won the 1996
Letras de Oro National Literary Award. She
collaborated with Cristina de la Torre in the translation
of the book (titled in English, A single
Numberless Death, University of Virginia Press, 2002). The
novel is included as course reading in several
universities in Canada, the United States, Austria
and Mexico, and was the topic of several doctoral
dissertations at Grand Valley State University,
Michigan (2001).
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