Verónica Murguía
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Murguía in 2017
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| Born | (1960-11-05) 5 November 1960 (age 63)
Mexico City, Mexico
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| Nationality | Mexican |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, educator |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Verónica Murguía (born 1960) is a Mexican fantasy writer who has won multiple prizes for her children's literature and novels. Her husband was poet David Huerta.
Verónica Murguía was born on 5 November 1960 in Mexico City, Mexico. She attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas e Historia (National School of Visual arts and history). She studied history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and then began working as an illustrator.[1]
Her first publications in 1990 were a novel entitled "Rosendo" and "Historia y aventuras de Taté el mago y Clarisel la cuentera", which won the National Short Story Prize for Children Juan de la Cabada.[1] In 1993 Murguía was a FONCA Fellow[2] and studied and lived in Canada for a brief time.[3]
In 1999, Murguía began writing a bi-weekly column for La Jornada's cultural supplement.[4] In addition, she has published journalism pieces in Etcétera and Laberinto Urbano; hosted the educational radio program “Desde acá los chilangos”; participated in an educational program for indigenous children in Oaxaca, Sonora and Yucatán; and taught children's literature at the Mexican Writer's Guild (SOGEM).[2] Since 2001, she has been a member of the National System of Art Creators.[1]
In 2005, her book "Auliya" was named one of the books of the year by Banco del Libro of Venezuela[2] and was nominated for the Rattenfänger Prize in Hameln, Germany, as well as being translated into German, Italian, and Portuguese.[5] Her fantasy novel "Loba" was awarded the Gran Angular Prize in 2013 from Spain.[6]
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