Nery Santos Gómez

Nery Santos Gómez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1967) is a Venezuelan-American author.

Nery Santos Gómez
Nery in Bogotá, 2019
Born	1967 (age 56–57) Caracas, Venezuela
Language	Spanish
Citizenship	Venezuela (birthplace), United States[citation needed]
Alma mater	Universidad Católica Andres Bello Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
Website
nerysantoswriter.com hilanderadetramas.wordpress.com

Biography

Nery Santos Gómez was born in Caracas, Venezuela on August 21, 1967. She currently holds a degree in Industrial Relations from the Andrés Bello Catholic University (1989) and a master's degree in Literary Creation from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2016).^[1] She has stood out primarily as a result of her stories.^[2][3]

Books published include Hilandera de tramas (2012), Lazareto de Afecciones (2018), and Al borde de la decencia (2019).^[4] Other stories have been published in different anthologies internationally. Gómez has participated in the "Palenque" anthology, winner of the 2014 Puerto Rican PEN Club Literature Prize, with her story: Hacinamiento.^[5][6][7]

She was a finalist, published in the Bovarismos International Women's Narrative Award 2014 contest in Miami with her story: Desde mi balcón. Moreover, she was among the winners of the Puerto Rican Writers' Guild "Entre Libros" short story competition in May 2016 and was published with her story: El mundo entero. Gómez was part of the board of directors of the Writers Guild of Puerto Rico in 2013 and 2014. She participated in the Borinquen Writing Project at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón where she obtained the degree of "Writing Consultant”. She is currently a full member of the Colombian Academy of Letters and Philosophy of Bogotá, Colombia.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Gómez's book Lazareto de afecciones was chosen by El Nuevo Dia as one of the best books of 2018.^[12][13] One year later, Lazareto de afecciones won three awards – Best Collection of Short Stories (1st place), Best Latino Fiction Book (2nd place), and Best Popular Fiction Book (2nd place) – at the 2019 International Latino Book Awards, ILBA.^[14][15]

Gómez's most recent book, Al borde de la decencia was announced as the winner of the 2019 International "Anaïs Nin" Literature Prize by the Spanish Sial Pigmalión Publishing Group in November of that year.^[16][17]

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gómez served as the coordinator for the anthology "Cuarentena literaria. Poemas y relatos que escaparon al encierro", a compilation of poems and stories written by forty authors from ten countries and four continents (North America, South America, Europe, and Africa) in quarantine.^{[18][19][20][21]}

In 2022, she was coordinator of the anthology "Frankfurt: territorio literario", presented at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022 as a tribute to the city. The anthology has forty-five authors from five continents, and a prologue by Ricardo Martínez Vásquez, the Ambassador of Spain to Germany.^[22][23][24]

Publications

Books

• Hilandera de tramas, 2012
• Lazareto de afecciones, 2018^[25]
• Al borde de la decencia, 2019
• Transcending the Lazaretto (English version of Lazareto de afecciones), 2020
• Fronteras desdibujadas, 2021
• El baile de los colores, 2022
• Almazuela (Fronteras desdibujadas II), 2023

Stories

• Las maletas, 2012 (published in Huellas a la mar: Tercera antología internacional de revista Literarte)
• Hacinamiento, 2013 (published in Palenque: Antología puertorriqueña)
• Desordenadas palomitas de maíz, 2013 (published in Karmasensual8)
• Desde mi balcón, 2014 (published in Soñando en Vrindavan y otras historias de ellas)
• El mundo entero, 2016 (published in Entre libros)
• Osadas orquídeas, 2018 (published in Divina: La mujer en veinte voces)
• Depresión, 2018 (published in Divina: La mujer en veinte voces)
• Yo, el fisgón de doña Elena, 2018 (published in Divina: La mujer en veinte voces)
• De mangos y mujeres divinas, 2018 (published in Divina: La mujer en veinte voces)
• Serendipitas, 2020 (published in Amores de cine. Pasiones más allá del celuloide)
• En la fila del cine, 2020 (published in Amores de cine. Pasiones más allá del celuloide)
• Cuarentena literaria. Poemas y relatos que escaparon al encierro, 2020 (Coordinator)
• Frankfurt: territorio literario, 2022 (Coordinator)

See also

• Venezuela portal

• Venezuelan literature
• Colombian literature
• Puerto Rican literature
• Latin American literature

References

1. "Tesis de los egresados – Maestría en Creación Literaria – Dr. Luis López Nieves – Ciudad Seva – Luis López Nieves". ciudadseva.com. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
2. "Relatos maravillosos". El Universal (in Spanish). August 20, 2023. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
3. "Nery Santos Gómez: Venezuelan-American Author".
4. "El Adoquín Times – Año 5 – Número 57 – Diciembre 2020". Issuu. p. 16. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
5. "Nery Santos Gómez". www.escritores.org (in European Spanish). Retrieved August 9, 2018.
6. "Nery Santos Gómez. Venezuela Estados Unidos. Lazareto de afecciones". UNRadio. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
7. "Afecciones". bogocine.com (in Spanish). May 6, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
8. "La crisis como desafío literario". Instituto Distrital de las Artes (in Spanish). Retrieved August 10, 2018.
9. "Realizan Campeonato Mundial de Cuento Corto Oral". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). Retrieved August 10, 2018.
10. "Nery Santos Gómez". www.escritores.org (in European Spanish). Retrieved August 9, 2018.
11. الفرشيشي, هيام (April 12, 2019). "مختارات من الشعر التونسي المعاصر بلغة لوركا | هيام الفرشيشي". MEO (in Arabic). Retrieved June 23, 2020.
12. "Press Reader: El Nuevo Dia". 2018.
13. "Nery Santos Gómez". Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión (in Spanish). Retrieved November 27, 2019.
14. "ILBA Finalists" (PDF).
15. "Nery Santos: "Extraño la alegría de mi pueblo"". El Universal (in Spanish). July 22, 2019. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
16. "Literaturas Noticias: 106.- Premio Internacional de Literatura Erótica "Anaïs Nin" 2019". Literaturas Noticias. November 18, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
17. "La venezolana Nery Santos, Premio Internacional de Literatura Erótica "Anaïs Nin" 2019". 21 Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved November 27, 2019.
18. "Cuarenta escritores en cuarentena". El Tiempo (in Spanish). May 20, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
19. "La pandemia sí tiene quien la escriba". El Universal (in Spanish). June 16, 2020. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
20. "Publican 'Cuarentena literaria', antología del confinamiento". www.eluniversal.com.co (in European Spanish). June 22, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
21. "Cuarentena literaria. Poemas y relatos que escaparon al encierro". Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión (in Spanish). Retrieved May 27, 2020.
22. "Frankfurt, capital de las letras". El Universal (in Spanish). September 25, 2022. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
23. Prensa, Redacción (September 6, 2022). "Frankfurt: Territorio Literario del 19 al 23 de octubre". La Nota Latina (in Spanish). Retrieved November 13, 2022.
24. "Frankfurt: territorio literario". Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión (in Spanish). Retrieved November 13, 2022.
25. "La Poesía Del Nacimiento Del Cine | Festival de Cine de Bogotá". bogocinedigital.info (in Spanish). Retrieved February 11, 2020.

External links

• Nery Santos Gomez's personal blog
• Nery Santos Gomez's website
• La crisis como desafio literario
• Sobre el arte de hilar y contar