Miluska Benavides

Miluska Benavides
Born1986 (age 38–39)
Lima, Peru
OccupationWriter, translator, professor
EducationUniversity of Colorado Boulder
EmployerPeruvian University of Applied Sciences

Miluska Benavides (born 1986) is a Peruvian writer and translator. She was born in Lima. She has a doctorate in Latin American literature from the University of Colorado Boulder and currently teaches at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. She is known for her prose works, among them:[citation needed]

  • Naturaleza de la prosa de José María Eguren (essay, Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 2017)
  • La caza espiritual (short stories, Celacanto, 2015).

In 2012, she also translated Arthur Rimbaud’s poetical work A Season in Hell.[1]

In 2021, she was named by Granta magazine as one of the best young writers in the Spanish language.[2][3][4]

In 2022, she was working on her novel Hechos.[5]

References

  1. ^ GoodReads website, Una temporada en el infierno
  2. ^ "Miluska Benavides, docente de Traducción e Interpretación, es reconocida como una de las mejores narradoras en español por Granta" (in Spanish). Noticias UPC. 2021-04-26.
  3. ^ "Miluska Benavides". Granta.
  4. ^ "Miluska Benavides: «Es tentador pensar en los libros como instrumentos que pueden seguir expandiéndose»" (in Spanish). L'Articulista. 2021-08-09. Archived from the original on 2021-08-09.
  5. ^ Cuadernos Hispano Americanos website, Miluska Benavides, article dated February 1, 2022