Laia Jufresa
Laia Jufresa 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, U.S., 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 rural area in Mexico where she began to read avidly, especially English books that her grandfather sent her. Later she lived in France, Spain, Argentina, and Germany.
She took a master's degree in illustration. In Mexico, she studied at Mario Bellatin's Escuela Dinámica de Escritores and was awarded two grants for young writers from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas and the FONCA. Her work has been in anthologies such as Un nuevo modo, Antología de narrativa mexicana actual, Muestra de literatura joven de México and Los mejores Poemas Mexicanos 2006. Her book El esquinista was awarded an honorable mention in the National Prize for Short Story San Luis Potosí 2012.
When she was only six, she moved to a rural area in Mexico where she began to read avidly, especially English books that her grandfather sent her. Later she lived in France, Spain, Argentina, and Germany.
She took a master's degree in illustration. In Mexico, she studied at Mario Bellatin's Escuela Dinámica de Escritores and was awarded two grants for young writers from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas and the FONCA. Her work has been in anthologies such as Un nuevo modo, Antología de narrativa mexicana actual, Muestra de literatura joven de México and Los mejores Poemas Mexicanos 2006. Her book El esquinista was awarded an honorable mention in the National Prize for Short Story San Luis Potosí 2012.
