Patricia Laurent Kullick (22 January 1962 – 2 November 2022) was a Mexican contemporary short story writer and novelist. Born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, she lived in

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, for the majority of her life. Her short stories and novels were written with intimate and playful tones, touching on the subject of madness and women.

Life and career

Kullick received a fellowship from Mexico's

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, and has published the collections of short stories ''Ésta y otras ciudades'', ''Están por todas partes'', ''El topógrafo y la tarántula'' and ''Infancia y otros horrores''. Her first two published novels were ''El circo de la soledad'' and ''El camino de Santiago'', the latter being awarded the Nuevo León Prize for Literature in 1999. Three years later, it was published in English by Peter Owen Publishers (London), under the title ''Santiago's Way'', with the Spanish edition being reprinted by Editorial Tusquets in 2001. In 2015, she published her third novel, ''La Giganta'', with Editorial Tusquets. Kullick died from

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s in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, on 2 November 2022, at the age of 60.

Literary works

Short story collections

* ''Ésta y otras ciudades'' (Tierra Adentro, 1991) * ''Están por todas partes'' (Ayuntamiento de Ciudad Guadalupe, 1993) * ''El topógrafo y la tarántula'' (Editorial de Papeles de la Mancuspia, 1996) * ''Infancia y otros horrores'' (Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León, 2003) * ''En domingo no es amargo, Cuentos Completos'' (Altasaltante, 2018)

Novels

* ''El camino de Santiago'' (Editorial Era, 2002) ::Translated as ''Santiago's Way'' (Peter Owen Publishers, London, 2002) * ''El circo de la soledad'' (Ediciones Intempestivas, 2011) * ''El camino de Santiago'' (reprinted by Editorial Tusquets, 2015) * ''La giganta'' (Editorial Tusquets, 2015)

Anthologies

* ''Norte. Una antología'' by Eduardo Antonio Parra (Ediciones Era, Fondo Editorial de Nuevo León, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, 2015)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kullick, Patricia Laurent 1962 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Mexican writers 21st-century Mexican writers Mexican essayists Mexican short story writers Mexican women novelists Mexican women short story writers 21st-century Mexican women writers Writers from Monterrey Deaths from surgical complications