Name Sergio Missana | Role Novelist | |
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Books La maquina de pensar de borges | ||
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Sergio Missana (1966) is a Chilean novelist, journalist, scholar, editor, scriptwriter and environmental advocate. He is a professor of Latin American literature at the Stanford University Overseas Studies Program in Santiago, Chile, and Americas Director of Climate Parliament, an environmental NGO.
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- Sergio missana tratos y retratos 1 6
- Sergio missana 2004
- Biography
- Novels
- Travel
- Essays
- Childrens books
- Scriptwriting
- References
Sergio missana 2004
Biography
Missana is the author of six novels: El invasor (The Invader), 1997; Movimiento falso (False Movement), 2000, a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Award in 2001; La calma (The Calm), 2005; El día de los muertos (The Day of the Dead), 2007; Las muertes paralelas (The Parallel Deaths), 2010; and El discípulo (The Disciple), 2014. He published the critical study La máquina de pensar de Borges (Borges’ Thinking Machine), based on his dissertation at Stanford University, in 2003, and the collection of essays La distracción (Distraction) in 2015. In 2012 he co-authored Lugares de paso, a collection of travel pieces, with photographer Ramsay Turnbull. He published, with his daughter Maya (b. 2001), the children’s books Luis el tímido (Shy Luis), 2008, Boris y las manzanas (Boris and Apples), 2011, and El gallo loco (The Crazy Rooster), 2013, and No es justo (It's Not Fair) with his daughter Sofía (b. 2004) in 2014.
Missana holds a PhD and an MA in Spanish from Stanford University. He earned a BA in Social Communications and a Professional Degree in Journalism from the University of Chile. He currently teaches Latin American literature at the Stanford University Overseas Studies Program in Santiago, Chile.
Between 2002 and 2006, Missana served as Director of Publications and Head of International Relations at the BBVA Foundation in Madrid, Spain, and as member of the Governing Council of the European Foundation Centre (EFC), based in Brussels. He was editor-in-chief of Chilean music magazine Rock & Pop (1994–95). In 2007, he co-wrote the award-winning animated TV series for children Chilian Geografic, which raised awareness of Chilean endangered animal species. He is currently Americas Director at the Climate Parliament, a UK-based NGO that addresses climate change by promoting the transition to renewable energy.
His journalistic work includes over fifty articles on literature, film, music, travel, art, design, culture and science. He has published articles and reviews in PRL (U.S.), Fractal (Mexico), Literal Magazine (U.S.), La Tercera (Chile), El Mercurio (Chile), Planet (U.S.), Pausa Magazine of the National Council of Culture and the Arts (Chile), Paula (Chile) and Rock & Pop (Chile), among other publications.
He divides his time between Washington, CT, and Santiago, Chile. He lives with his wife, Ramsay Turnbull, and their three children.