Antolina Ortiz Moore writes an existentialist, brief, intimate novel. She writes to understand the close relationship between gender and ecology, doing so through the economy of language. Her book Seda araña was a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 2020 and the Nadal Prize in Spain in 2019. Las torres de arena was published by Pre-textos in 2023. Born in Mexico and residing in Canada, she is a voice of literature in the diaspora. With studies in humanities at the Liceo Franco Mexicano and later in Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana, her works reflect this aspect of her education.
Antolina Ortiz Moore (Mexico City, 1971) is a Spanish-Canadian writer with a passion for writing, photography, and travel since an early age. She describes herself as a citizen of the world. She studied humanities at the Lycée Franco-Mexicain and later at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where she also worked as a professor for several years. Her philosophical background has led her to question her own existence and that of humanity, as well as to observe and admire the world, making writing a means of communication through which she projects her reflections in a simple yet deeply ...
Marcela embraces her silences in a liquid atmosphere. The novel follows the course of her life—her transformation from a young woman, to a mother, to a widow, to a wise woman. Meanwhile, Isis, the golden fish, swims serenely through the depths of a Chinese legend that speaks of eternal youth—something that, if it exists, a poet will immortalize in his verses. The characters weave a delicate lace, like the breath of a sleeping baby—so fragile, so like a bouquet of wallflowers—that it aches in the chest to touch such intimacy with the eyes... Three Silences is a novel ...
Set in mid-20th century Holland, this work—winner of the First National Short Novel Contest for Mexican Women Writers—draws on scientific innovations regarding the use of spider silk to offer a fresh and original perspective on one of the most widely explored topics in world literature: the Second World War.
Otumba is where Mexicans fought their final battle. The place where limbo found its broken people. But life also happens in Otumba—surrounded by the voices of the dead, mingling with the waves of time. It stretches from dusk to dawn and from east to west. Otumba immerses us in the moment after death, when the broken body still longs to be skin and desire. There is no time in Otumba. Everything is now. The protagonist, Jaime, enters a deep trance, experiencing a fleeting pleasure. Silvana closes the window of her perception. Only Jaime’s voice remains, and the blank ...
One September day, the unborn voices arrived in dreams that last a lifetime. As the world collapsed around her, Amy jumped into a hole at the heart of a building. Her grandfather was serving tea, lipstick stains slipping down the porcelain cup. Ashes began to fall, the building burned at a thousand degrees Celsius. ANTOLINA ORTIZ MOORE (Mexico, 1971) considers herself a citizen of the world. Extensive travel, vipassana meditation, and philosophy lead her into deep reflection on life. Her existential awe is reflected in her work. She founded Morfo, a Free Education project, and the ...
