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Enrique Serna (born 11 January 1959) is a Mexican writer.

Enrique Serna
Enrique Serna

Serna was born in Mexico City. Before devoting himself entirely to literature, he was a scriptwriter for various Mexican soap operas and wrote biographies of popular Mexican figures as well as working in the advertising industry as a copywriter. ..... In 2003 Gabriel García Márquez named Serna as one of the best Mexican short story writers in an anthology published by Cambio review. As an essayist, Serna has published three books that share the dark humor of his fiction: Las caricaturas me hacen llorar, Giros negros and Genealogía de la soberbia intelectual. Some of his works have been translated into French, Italian, German, English and Portuguese. He presently writes a monthly article for the influential Mexican cultural review Letras Libres.

Books

Novels

  • Señorita México (1987)
  • Uno soñaba que era rey (1989)
  • El miedo a los animales (1995)
  • Ángeles del abismo (2004)
  • Fruta Verde (2006)
  • La sangre erguida (2010)
  • La doble vida de Jesús (2014)
  • El vendedor de silencio (2019)

Short stories

  • Amores de segunda mano (1991)
  • La ternura caníbal (2013)

Essays

  • Las caricaturas me hacen llorar (1996)
  • Giros negros (2008)
  • Genealogía de la soberbia intelectual (2013)

Biography

  • Jorge el bueno: La vida de Jorge Negrete (1993)
  • Todas mis guerras (1993), on María Félix. He is listed as editor but was, in fact, the book's ghostwriter.

Children's literature

  • La caverna encantada (1997)
  • La recompensa de Nefru (2012)

Other work

  • Los mejores cuentos mexicanos (2000) (Compiler)
  • Tríptico de juegos (2002), by Carlos Olmos (Prologue)
  • Teatro completo (2007), by Carlos Olmos (Prologue and Editor)

See also

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