Susana Hernández (writer)
{{Short description|Spanish author}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Susana Hernández
| birth_name = Susana Hernández Marcet
| birth_place = Barcelona
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1969}}
| occupation = Writer
| language = Spanish
| genre = Noir fiction
| notable_works = Contra las cuerdas
| awards = Ciudad de San Adrián (2015)
Cubelles Noir (2016, 2018)
Ciudad de Lebrija (2021)
| years_active =
| website = {{URL|susanahernandez.net}}
| portaldisp = y
}}
Susana Hernández Marcet (Barcelona, 1969){{cite web |title=Susana Hernandez Marcet |url=https://badabiblios.cat/autors/susana-hernandez-marcet/ |website=Badabiblios-Biblioteques de Badalona |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Catalan |date=13 October 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Santos |first1=Care |author1-link=Care Santos |title=Contra las cuerdas |url=https://www.elespanol.com/el-cultural/letras/novela/novela_negra/20130201/cuerdas/5749822_0.html |website=El Español |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Spanish |date=1 February 2013|trans-title=Against the Ropes|url-access= subscription}} is a Spanish writer who specializes in noir fiction. She created the character of Inspector Rebeca Santana, a lesbian investigator, who is the protagonist of several novels. Hernández has also written theatrical plays and taught literary workshops.{{cite web |last1=Hernández |first1=Susana |title=Sobre mí |url=https://www.susanahernandez.net/about/ |website=SusanaHernández.net |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Spanish|trans-title=About Me}}
Hernández studied image and sound and social integration, as well as private investigation and psychology. In addition to collaborating with print and radio media outlets, she has excelled as a writer. In 2005, she won the Ciudad de Sant Adrià award and was a finalist in the 2013 Valencia Negra literary festival. Inspector Santana was chosen as the best female character in noir and detective fiction in the 2012 LeeMisterio awards.{{cite web |title=Presentem a… Susana Hernández |url=https://cubellesnoir.com/2017/06/24/presentem-a-susana-hernandez/ |website=Cubelles Noir |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Catalan |date=24 June 2017|trans-title=We present... Susana Hernández}}
Along with writers Clara Asunción García and Isabel Franc, Hernández was a pioneer in creating criminal or detective plots around lesbian characters.{{sfn|Aramburu |2019|pp=22–25}} All these novelists show an influence by US author Jean M. Redmann.{{sfn|Pertusa |2014|p=105}}
Eva Paris-Huesca, in Curvas peligrosas en el contexto de los feminismos del nuevo milenio {{refn|group=lower-alpha|English: Dangerous curves in the context of feminism of the new millennium}} (2013) quotes Professor Shelley Godsland when she explains that this vast body of female-authored literature developed in Spain from the 1980s onwards, establishing a dialogue with the various feminist movements that have been gradually developing alongside the progress made by Spanish women in the political, economic, and social spheres.{{sfn|Paris-Huesca |2013|p=19}}{{sfn|Godsland|2007}}
Moreover, gender studies researcher Alicia Romero López compares Hernández's Inspector Santana character with other female detectives created by authors such as Alicia Giménez Bartlett (with her character {{ill|Petra Delicado|es}}), Blanca Álvarez González (with Bárbara Villalta), Isabel Franc (with Emma García), {{ill|Rosa Ribas Moliné|es|Rosa Ribas}} (with Cornelia Weber-Tejedor), Rosa Montero (with Bruna Husky), Dolores Redondo (with Amaia Salazar), {{ill|Susana Martín Gijón|es}} (with Annika Kaunda); as well as the series of novels about detective Sonia Ruiz written by various authors, such as Lorenzo Silva and Noemí Trujillo, Andreu Martín, Esteban Navarro, and {{ill|Claudio Cerdán|es}}. Romero López also mentions the series of novels written by Antonio Santos Mercero about the character Sofía Luna, the first transgender police inspector in Spanish literature.{{sfn|Romero López|2020}}{{cite web |last1=Fernández |first1=Víctor |title=Antonio Mercero, uno de los padres de Carmen Mola |url=https://www.larazon.es/cultura/20211016/nqd3ylovhfgadkfvu43alcus7q.html |website=La Razón (Madrid) |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Spanish |date=16 October 2021|trans-title=Antonio Mercero, one of the fathers of Carmen Mola}}
Novels
= Inspector Santana series =
- Curvas peligrosas (Odisea Editorial, 2010, {{ISBN|9788415294306}}) {{in lang|es}}
- Contra las cuerdas (Editorial Alrevés, 2012, {{ISBN|9788415098720}}) {{in lang|es}}
- Cuentas pendientes (Editorial Alrevés, 2015, {{ISBN|9788416328215}}) {{in lang|es}}
= Standalone novels =
- La casa roja (Literaturas Com Libros LcL, 2013, {{ISBN|9788415414681}}) {{in lang|es}}
- La puta que leía a Jack Kerouac (Lesrain 2007; Literaturas Com Libros LcL, 2012, {{ISBN|9788415414339}}) {{in lang|es}}
- Males decisions (Editorial Alrevés, 2017, {{ISBN|9788417077198}}) {{in lang|ca}}
- La reina del punk: La enigmática y sorprendente historia de amor y rock de la groupie que vivió a mil por hora y se convirtió en leyenda (Redbook Ediciones, 2018, {{ISBN|978-84-948799-8-2}}) {{in lang|es}}
- Los miércoles salvajes (Editorial Milenio, 2019, {{isbn|978-8497438568}}) {{in lang|es}}
- Mai més (Editorial Alrevés, 2020, {{ISBN|978-84-17847-37-1}}) {{in lang|ca}}
- Cerveza Mexicana (Extravertida editorial, 2021, {{ISBN|978-8412335989}}) {{in lang|es}}
Anthologies
Hernández has participated in major short story anthologies in the noir genre:
- Elles també maten, Anna Maria Villalonga (ed.) (Llibres del Delicte, 2014, {{ISBN|978-84-941064-1-5}}) {{in lang|ca}}
- Fundido en negro. (Antología de relatos del mejor calibre criminal femenino), Inmaculada Pertusa (ed.) (Editorial Alrevés, 2014, {{ISBN|978-84-15900-50-4}}) {{in lang|es}}
- Diez negritos, nuevas voces del género negro español, {{ill|Àlex Martín Escribà|es}} and Javier Sánchez Zapatero (eds.) (Editorial Alrevés, 2015, {{ISBN|9788415900979}}) {{in lang|es}}
- Obscena. Trece relatos pornocriminales, {{ill|Juan Ramón Biedma|es}} (ed.) (Editorial Alrevés, 2016, {{ISBN|978-84-16328-55-0}}) {{in lang|es}}
- [https://archive.org/details/barcelonaviatgel0000unse Barcelona, viatge a la perifèria criminal], Àlex Martín Escribà and {{ill|Sebastià Bennasar i Llobera|ca}} (eds.) (Editorial Alrevés, 2017, {{ISBN|978-84-17077-17-4}}) {{in lang|ca}}
- La cervesa de la Highsmith (Pagès Editors, 2021, {{ISBN| 978-84-1303-232-0}}) {{in lang|ca}}
Awards
- Versales Lesbian Poetry award (2009){{cite web |title=I Premio de poesía lésbica Versales |url=https://lesbian-lips.com/i-premio-de-poesia-lesbica-versales/news/3085/ |website=Lesbian Lips |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Spanish |date=19 November 2009|trans-title=1st Versales Lesbian Poetry Award}}
- Katharsis award for novel (2009), finalist{{cite web |title=Susana Hernández |url=https://conoceralautor.es/autores/susana-hernandez/ |website=Conocer al Autor.es |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Spanish}}
- Valencia Negra festival (2013), finalist for best novel for Contra las cuerdas{{cite web |title=Susana Hernández |url=https://clandestinaeditorial.com/autor/susana-hernandez |website=Editorial Clandestina |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Spanish}}
- Ciudad de Sant Adrià (2015), for La casa roja
- Cubelles Noir (2016), for the best crime novel written in Spanish by a woman and published in 2015, for Cuentas pendientes
- Cubelles Noir (2018), for the best crime novel written in Catalan in 2017, for Males decisions {{cite web |title=Presentem a… Susana Hernández |url=https://cubellesnoir.com/2021/08/06/presentem-a-susana-hernandez-2/ |website=Cubelles Noir |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Catalan |date=6 August 2021|trans-title=We present... Susana Hernández}}
- Ciudad de Lebrija (2021), for Cerveza mexicana {{cite web |title=La escritora Susana Hernández recibe el primer Premio de Novela Ciudad de Lebrija |url=https://www.diariodesevilla.es/vivirensevilla/Susana-Hernandez-Premio-Novela-Lebrija_0_1733527147.html |website=Diario de Sevilla |access-date=30 September 2024 |language=Spanish |date=28 October 2022|trans-title=Writer Susana Hernández receives the first Ciudad de Lebrija award for novel}}
See also
Notes
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References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book |last1=Aramburu |first1=Diana |title=Resisting Invisibility: Detecting the Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction |date=2019 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |isbn=978-1-4875-0459-5 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctvh9vxqd}}
- {{cite book |last1=Godsland |first1=Shelley |title=Killing Carmens: Women´s Crime Fiction from Spain |date=2007 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=9780708320167}}
- {{cite book |last1=Lores Torres |first1=Milagros |editor1-last=Romero Morales |editor1-first=Yasmina |editor2-last=Cabrera Castro |editor2-first=Paula |title=Amor impossibilis: textos y pretextos de escritoras españolas (s. xx-xxi)|trans-title=Impossible love: texts and pretexts of Spanish women writers (20th-21st century) |date=2022 |publisher=Ediciones Alfar |location=Seville |isbn=9788478989461 |pages=315–331 |language=Spanish |chapter=Rebeca Santana, una detective "queer" (El valor performativo del personaje de Susana Hernández)|trans-chapter=Rebeca Santana, a queer detective (The performative value of Susana Hernández's character)}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Paris-Huesca |first1=Eva |title=Curvas peligrosas en el contexto de los feminismos del nuevo milenio |journal=Polifonía Scholarly Journal |date=2013 |volume=III |issue=1 |url=https://www.apsu.edu/polifonia/volumeiii.php |publisher=Austin Peay State University |location=Clarksville, Tennessee |language=Spanish |issn=2165-994X|trans-title=Dangerous curves in the context of feminism of the new millennium}}
- {{cite book |last1=Pertusa |first1=Inmaculada |editor1-last=Fernández Ulloa |editor1-first=Teresa |title=Otherness in Hispanic Culture |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |isbn=978-1-4438-5389-7 |pages=105–121 |language=Spanish |trans-chapter=New lesbian detectives for a new millennium |chapter=7. Nuevas detectives lesbianas para un nuevo milenio}}
- {{cite thesis |last=Romero López |first=Alicia |date= 30 November 2020|title=El personaje de la investigadora en la narrativa policiaca peninsular|trans-title=The character of the female investigator in the peninsular crime fiction narrative |degree=PhD |chapter= |publisher=Complutense University of Madrid |location=Madrid|language=es|url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=289932}}
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External links
- [https://www.susanahernandez.net/ Personal website] {{in lang|es}}
- [https://clubnegro.blogspot.com/ Black Club], a blog and book club about crime fiction {{in lang|es}}
- [https://www.doctorgoodfellowbooks.com/post/entrevista-a-susana-hern%C3%A1ndez-marcet Interview with Susana Hernández Marcet] by literary criticism website Dr. Goodfellow, 18 November 2022 {{in lang|es}}
- [https://latormentaenunvaso.blogspot.com/2016/03/cuentas-pendientes-susana-hernandez.html Cuentas pendientes, Susana Hernández], book review by María Dolores García Pastor in the now-defunct literary criticism website {{ill|La tormenta en un vaso|es}}, 7 March 2016 {{in lang|es}}
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