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Mexican writer

Daniela Tarazona (born 1975) is a Mexican writer and journalist. She is the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.

Daniela Tarazona was born on 23 June 1975, in Mexico City, Mexico.^[1] She studied Latin American literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana,^[1][2] where she wrote her thesis on Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star,^[2][3] then continued her education at the University of Salamanca.^[1]

Tarazona published her first text when she was 26, in a supplement of the Excélsior.^[4] She worked as editor-in-chief for the Hoja por hoja literary supplement of the Reforma.^[1] She has also worked for such magazines as Letras Libres, Luvina, Crítica y Renacimiento, as well as weekly supplements of Milenio and Reforma.^[1]

In 2006, she gained a Young Creators grant from FONCA, which helped her write her first novel,^[3] El animal sobre la piedra (2008).^[4] In 2011, she was included in a list of “The 25 Best Kept Secrets in Latin America” at the Guadalajara International Book Fair.^[2][5][6] Her second novel, El beso de la liebre (2013) was shortlisted for the Casa de las Américas Prize.^[2] In 2022, her novel Isla partida won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.^[4][5]

Her works have been translated into Italian,^[1] English, French and Czech.^[5][6]

• El animal sobre la piedra, 2008. Translated by Lizzie Davis and Kevin Gerry Dunn as The Animal on the Rock (Dallas: Deep Vellum, 2025)
• El beso de la liebre, 2013
• Isla partida, 2021^[4][5]

• Clarice Lispector, 2009^[2]
• Clarice Lispector. La mirada en el jardín, 2020^[7]