Karina Sainz Borgo wins a UNESCO residency for writers

Karina Sainz Borgo is a renowned Venezuelan writer who lives in Spain / Photo: Karina Sainz Borgo Press

Venezuelan Karina Sainz Borgo, along with British author James Womack, has been selected as a resident of the International Writers Programme held in Granada (Spain) in collaboration with UNESCO.

According to the organizers of this initiative, the two were selected from among 167 candidates from around 50 countries competing for the seventh edition of the program, including Armenia, Egypt, South Korea, Haiti, Iraq, Uganda, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

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The jury of this residency, organised by Granada Unesco City of Literature with the City Council and the University of this city in southern Spain, highlights Sainz Borgo’s interest and the projection of a narrative work in constant growth, which has been translated into twenty languages ​​and which has won, with three published novels, important awards.

Her work proposal for Granada is to finish her fourth novel, ‘Nazarena’, a literary project that closes the cycle formed by ‘La hija de la española’ and ‘El tercer país’, halfway between the family saga and psychological exploration, with madness as the focus of personal and social reflection, according to the jury’s decision.

Granada / EFE