Karina Sainz Borgo (born 1982, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer who has lived in Spain since 2006. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages,[1] and her stories have been published in magazines such as Granta en español [es].[2]
Sainz Borgo is a reporter and columnist for the Spanish newspaper ABC;[7] she has worked for Spanish media such as Vozpópuli [es], Zenda, and Onda Cero.[8] She is a cultural journalist and author of journalism books such as Caracas hip-hop (2007) and Tráfico y Guaire, el país y sus intelectuales (2007).[9]
In 2019, she published La hija de la española, her first novel, which has been translated into more than twenty languages.[10][11]Time magazine included this title among the 100 most important books of 2019.[12]
In her second book, Crónicas barbitúricas, she recounts her life in Madrid.[13] In her 2021 novel, El Tercer País, she revisits the myth of Antigone and the fundamental right that human beings have to bury their dead.[14][15] Her 2023 fantasy novel, La isla del Doctor Schubert, with illustrations by Natàlia Pàmies,[16] was a finalist for the Grand Continent prize in 2023.[17]
Tráfico y Guaire, el país y sus intelectuales (Fundación Para La Cultura Urbana, 2007) ISBN978-980-6553-68-2
Cuatro reportajes, dos décadas, una historia: Tráfico y Guaire, el país y sus intelectuales (Fundación para la Cultura Urbana, 2007) ISBN978-980-6553-68-2
Crónicas barbitúricas (Círculo de Tiza, 2019) ISBN8494913190
^Sagel, Mariela. "El tercer país" [The third country]. www.laestrella.com.pa (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 September 2024.
^Maier, Anna Carolina (22 November 2021). "'El tercer país', el Comala donde uno no quiere volver" ['The third country', the Comala where one does not want to return]. Letras Libres (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 7 September 2024.
