Awards and Recognitions

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literary Prize

2015

Perla Suez

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Argentina, 1948

Born in Córdoba, Argentina, Perla Suez holds a degree in Modern Literature and has been a fellow of the governments of France and Canada. She was the founder and director of the Center for the Promotion and Research of Children’s and Young Adult Literature and of the magazine Piedra libre.

In 2006, Trilogía de Entre Ríos was published, bringing together three of her novels: Letargo (2000), finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize; El arresto (2001); and Complot (2004). Trilogía de Entre Ríos received the First Grinzane Cavour Novel Prize (Turin and Montevideo, 2008) and the First Municipal Novel Prize from the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

In 2007, she won the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel La pasajera. Her works have been translated into English, Italian, Serbian, and French. She has an extensive body of work for children and young readers, for which she has received numerous awards, including the Special Mention of the José Martí Children’s Literature Prize, the White Ravens distinction, and the Octogonal Prize of Paris. Her novel Humo rojo (Edhasa, 2012) was finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize 2013 and received Argentina’s First National Novel Prize (2009–2012). In 2014, her latest picture books for children—El huemul, Un oso, and Lara y su lobo—were released.