Elisa Lerner

{{Short description|Venezuelan playwright and essayist (1932–2024)}}

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| name = Elisa Lerner

| image = Elisa Lerner 2013.jpg

| caption = Lerner in 2013

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1932|6|6}}

| birth_place = Valencia, Venezuela

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2024|11|24|1932|6|6}}

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| occupation = Playwright, essayist

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| notableworks = Yo amo a Columbo (1979)

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Elisa Lerner Nagler (6 June 1932 – 24 November 2024) was a Venezuelan playwright and essayist. Among her works are the plays: Vida con mamá and En el vasto silencio de Manhattan; the essays volume Yo amo a Columbo o la pasión dispersa and the chronicle books: Carriel para la fiesta and Crónicas ginecológicas. In 1999, she was awarded the National Prize for Literature.

Lerner died on 24 November 2024, at the age of 92.{{cite news |title=Fallece la escritora Elisa Lerner a los 92 años de edad |url=https://talcualdigital.com/fallece-la-escritora-elisa-lerner-a-los-92-anos-de-edad/ |access-date=25 November 2024 |publisher=Tal Cual |date=24 November 2024}}