Karina Sainz Borgo
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| birth_place = Caracas, Venezuela
| occupation = {{hlist|journalist|non-fiction writer|novelist}}
| alma_mater = {{hlist|Andrés Bello Catholic University|Complutense University of Madrid|Universidad CEU San Pablo}}
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| notable_works = {{hlist|La hija de la española|El Tercer País}}
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Karina Sainz Borgo (born 1982, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer who has lived in Spain since 2006. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages,{{cite news |last1=Pardo |first1=Carlos |title=Maldito país, Venezuela |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/03/06/babelia/1551886931_094269.html |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=El País |date=11 March 2019 |language=es|trans-title=Damn country, Venezuela|issn= 1134-6582}} and her stories have been published in magazines such as {{ill|Granta en español|es}}.{{cite web |title=Scissors |url=https://granta.com/scissors/ |website=Granta |access-date=7 September 2024 |date=25 October 2019}}
Among Sainz's most important works are {{ill|La hija de la española|lt=It Would Be Night in Caracas|es}}, her first novel, which has been translated into more than twenty languages, and {{ill|El Tercer País|lt=No Place to Bury the Dead|es}}, which was awarded the Jan Michalski Prize.{{cite news |title=La venezolana Karina Sainz Borgo gana el premio Jan Michalski por 'El tercer país' |url=https://letralia.com/noticias/2023/11/30/karina-sainz-borgo-premio-jan-michalski/ |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=Letralia, Tierra de Letras |date=30 November 2023 |language=es|trans-title=Venezuelan Karina Sainz Borgo wins Jan Michalski Award for 'The Third Country'}} Along with authors such as Keila Vall de la Ville, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, {{ill|Michelle Roche Rodríguez|es}}, {{ill|María Elena Morán|es}}, and Camilo Pino, she is part of what critics have called the "literature of the diaspora" or "exodus".{{cite news |first=Francisco |last=Olivares |title=Literatura de la diáspora venezolana |url=https://www.coolt.com/libros/literatura-diaspora-venezolana_334_102.html |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=Coolt |language=es|trans-title=Literature of the Venezuelan diaspors}}{{cite news |last1=Ramos |first1=Dulce Maria |title=El éxodo del talento literario |url=https://www.eluniversal.com/entretenimiento/36105/el-exodo-del-talento-literario |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=El Universal |date=24 March 2019 |language=es|trans-title=The exodus of literary talent}}
Early life and education
Karina Sainz Borgo was born in Caracas in 1982.{{cite web |title=Karina Sainz Borgo |url=https://literaturfestival.com/en/authors/karina-sainz-borgo/ |website=international literature festival berlin |access-date=7 September 2024}}
She was a student at the Andrés Bello Catholic University before emigrating to Spain in 2006. She continued her studies at the Complutense University of Madrid (Master's, 2007), and at the Universidad CEU San Pablo.
Career
Sainz Borgo is a reporter and columnist for the Spanish newspaper ABC;{{cite news |title=Artículos escritos por Karina Sainz Borgo en Diario ABC |url=https://www.abc.es/autor/karina-sainz-borgo-4539/ |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=Diario ABC |date=5 September 2024 |language=es|trans-title=Articles written by Karina Sainz Borgo in Diario ABC}} she has worked for Spanish media such as {{ill|Vozpópuli|es}}, Zenda, and Onda Cero.{{cite news |last1=Palomo |first1=Elvira |title=Karina Sainz Borgo: 'No conozco otra cosa que no sea la violencia' |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/10/10/actualidad/1570727009_280544.html |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=El País |date=10 October 2019 |language=es|trans-title=Karina Sainz Borgo: 'I don't know anything other than violence'}} She is a cultural journalist and author of journalism books such as Caracas hip-hop (2007) and Tráfico y Guaire, el país y sus intelectuales (2007).{{cite news |title=El Cultural - Revista de cultura y artes referente en España|url=https://www.elespanol.com/el-cultural/ |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=El Español |language=es}}
In 2019, she published It Would Be Night in Caracas, her first novel, which has been translated into more than twenty languages.{{cite news |title=En espera de la tercera, por Daniel Fernández |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20211205/7911607/espera-tercera.html |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=La Vanguardia |date=5 December 2021 |language=es|trans-title=Waiting for the third, by Daniel Fernández}}{{cite news |last1=Goldáraz |first1=Luis H. |title=Karina Sainz Borgo: 'No ha habido territorio más incomprendido que el del migrante' |url=https://www.libertaddigital.com/cultura/libros/2021-03-10/karina-sainz-borgo-novela-migrante-territorio-frontera-compasion-el-tercer-pais-6717150/ |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=Libertad Digital - Cultura |date=10 March 2021 |language=es-ES|trans-title=Karina Sainz Borgo: 'There has never been a more misunderstood territory than that of the migrant'}} Time magazine included this title among the 100 most important books of 2019.{{cite news |title='Time' elige 'La hija de la española' de Karina Sainz entre los 100 mejores libros del año |url=https://www.vozpopuli.com/altavoz/cultura/revista-Time-hija-espanola-Karina-Sainz-mejores-libros-2019_0_1300670065.html |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=Vozpópuli |date=15 November 2019 |language=es|trans-title='Time' selects Karina Sainz's 'La hija de la española' among the 100 best books of the year}}
In her second book, Crónicas barbitúricas, she recounts her life in Madrid.{{cite news |last1=Cadenas |first1=Julia F. |title='Madrid es la relación más larga que he tenido' |url=https://elpais.com/ccaa/2019/11/05/madrid/1572957133_319717.html |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=El País |date=6 November 2019 |language=es|issn=1134-6582|trans-title='Madrid is the longest relationship I've had'}} In her 2021 novel, No Place to Bury the Dead, she revisits the myth of Antigone and the fundamental right that human beings have to bury their dead.{{cite news |last1=Sagel |first1=Mariela |title=El tercer país |url=https://www.laestrella.com.pa/vida-y-cultura/cultura/tercer-pais-LLLE464384 |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=www.laestrella.com.pa |language=es-PA|trans-title=The third country}}{{cite news |last1=Maier |first1=Anna Carolina |title='El tercer país', el Comala donde uno no quiere volver |url=https://letraslibres.com/libros/el-tercer-pais-el-comala-donde-uno-no-quiere-volver/ |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=Letras Libres |date=22 November 2021 |language=es-MX|trans-title='The third country', the Comala where one does not want to return}} Her 2023 fantasy novel, La isla del Doctor Schubert, with illustrations by Natàlia Pàmies,{{cite news |title='La isla del doctor Schubert': la inventiva sin límites de Karina Sainz Borgo |url=https://www.elespanol.com/el-cultural/letras/20230319/schubert-inventiva-sin-limites-karina-sainz-borgo/746675584_0.html |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=El Español |date=19 March 2023 |language=es|trans-title='The Island of Doctor Schubert': Karina Sainz Borgo's limitless inventiveness}} was a finalist for the Grand Continent Prize in 2023.{{cite web |title=L'île du docteur Schubert |url=https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2023/12/14/lile-du-docteur-schubert/ |website=Le Grand Continent |access-date=7 September 2024 |language=fr-FR|trans-title=Doctor Schubert's Island|date=14 December 2023}}
Awards and honours
- Grand Prix L'Héroïne Madame Figaro, foreign novel category (2020){{cite news |last1=Cabrices |first1=Rafael Osío |title=Karina Sainz Borgo: 'No creo en las literaturas nacionales' |url=https://www.cinco8.com/perspectivas/karina-sainz-borgo-no-creo-en-las-literaturas-nacionales/ |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=Cinco8 |language=es|trans-title=Karina Sainz Borgo: 'I don't believe in national literature'}}
- Nominated for the LiBeraturpreis (2020)
- Finalist for the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Stockholm (2021)
- Longlisted, Europese Literatuurprijs (2021){{cite web |title=Europese Literatuurprijs - Longlist 2021 |url=https://www.europeseliteratuurprijs.nl/2021/longlist.php |website=www.europeseliteratuurprijs.nl |access-date=7 September 2024}}
- O. Henry Prize (2021){{cite web |title=Four O. Henry Prize Winning Stories Published by Granta |url=https://granta.com/prizes/four-o-henry-prize-winning-stories-published-by-granta/ |website=Granta |access-date=7 September 2024 |date=2021}}
- Selection, Fnac Novel Prize (2023){{cite web |title=Prix du Roman Fnac 2023 : les finalistes et les 30 titres en lice |url=https://leclaireur.fnac.com/selection/cp44850-prix-du-roman-fnac-2023-les-finalistes-et-les-30-titres-en-lice/ |website=L'Éclaireur Fnac |access-date=7 September 2024 |language=fr|trans-title=Prix du Roman Fnac 2023: the finalists and the 30 titles in the running}}
- David Gistau Journalism Award (2023){{cite news |title=Karina Sainz Borgo, ganadora del Premio David Gistau de Periodismo 2023 |url=https://www.elmundo.es/television/medios/2023/11/23/655f2fc021efa04f678b45b6.html |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=ELMUNDO |date=23 November 2023 |language=es|trans-title=Karina Sainz Borgo, winner of the 2023 David Gistau Journalism Award}}
- Winner, Jan Michalski Prize (2023){{cite web |title=2023 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2023 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |access-date=7 September 2024 |language=en}}
- Finalist, Grand Continent Prize (2023)
Selected works
= Non-fiction =
- Caracas hip-hop (Caracas, 2007)
- Tráfico y Guaire, el país y sus intelectuales (Fundación Para La Cultura Urbana, 2007) {{isbn|978-980-6553-68-2}}
- Cuatro reportajes, dos décadas, una historia: Tráfico y Guaire, el país y sus intelectuales (Fundación para la Cultura Urbana, 2007) {{isbn|978-980-6553-68-2}}
- Crónicas barbitúricas (Círculo de Tiza, 2019) {{isbn|8494913190}}
= Novels =
- It Would Be Night in Caracas (2019) {{isbn|8426406947}}
- No Place to Bury the Dead (2021) {{isbn|1644733722}}
- La isla del Doctor Schubert (2023) {{isbn|9788426424532}}
References
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Category:Andrés Bello Catholic University alumni
Category:Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Category:21st-century Venezuelan novelists
Category:21st-century Venezuelan women writers