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is a Spanish writer and translator based in the UK. She teaches Translation Studies and Creative Writing at Kingston University and at the University of Westminster (London). Her publications include research articles on literary translation as well as fiction. Some of her texts have been nominated for literary prizes (Art Nalón Letras 2007, Planeta Jóvenes Talentos 2005 and 2007). Her first book, Tenebrario (Alhulia, 2009), a collection of short stories exploring the concept of ‘the Uncanny’, was acclaimed by critics as ‘the first good and honest book of the year’ (El Placer de la Lectura, 2009). The book is currently being translated into English.
Her second book, The Apprentice Writer: An Exercise Book, which will be published in 2012, is a metanarrative experiment conceived as a parody of Creative Writing courses and a journey through the pleasures - and sorrows - of that wonderful and mysterious process that writing is.
In 2011 Nina was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship, offered by the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme. During her stay at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, she completed a novel, which she is currently revising and editing.
This year she has been invited by the International Writers Residency Ledig House (Omi Arts Centre) to participate in their programme as a Writing Fellow. She will be working in their centre in New York in the coming months.
Nina is a member of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland and of International PEN, the worldwide association of writers for freedom of expression. Since 2008 she has also been the Coordinator of REMES (International Network of Writers in Spanish) in the UK. |
