Laia Jufresa

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Born:
Aug. 29, 1983

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Laia Jufresa (born 1983) is a Mexican writer. She was born in Mexico City and grew up in Veracruz and Paris. She studied at the Sorbonne, graduating with a BA in Arts. She also lived in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madison, Wisconsin and Cologne, Germany. She is best known for her debut novel Umami, which has been translated into multiple languages. In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogota39, a list of the most promising young writers in Latin America.When she was only six, she moved to a very rural area in Mexico where she began to read avidly, especially English books that her grandfather would send her. Later in her life she lived in France, Spain, Argentina, and now Germany. This interaction with different cultures and languages has helped her shape her literary point of view as well as her character formation making her a better writer. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in illustration. In Mexico, she studied at Mario Bellatin's Escuela Dinámica de Escritores (Dynamic School of Writers) and was awarded the two most important grants for young writers from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (The Foundation for Mexican Literature) and the FONCA …

Books by Laia Jufresa

Laia Jufresa: Umami (Finnish language, 2018) 4 stars

Umami

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