Enrique Serna

Enrique Serna Rodríguez (born 11 January 1959) is a Mexican writer. Serna was born in Mexico City. He is the son of Rosa Rodríguez Borrás and Ricardo Serna Rivera, who instilled a love of reading in him, and as a child he became fond of classic fantastic literature. Serna did his primary schooling at Instituto Patria and secondary at Instituto Simón Bolívar; in 1978 he enrolled in Journalism at UNAM's Faculty of Political Sciences, switched after three semesters to Hispanic Literature, and graduated in 1985 with a thesis on the poetry of Sandoval Zapata; he later received a scholarship for graduate study at Bryn Mawr College but left the program. Before devoting himself entirely to literature, he was a scriptwriter for various Mexican soap operas and wrote biographies of popular Mexican figures as well as working in the advertising industry as a copywriter. He has published the novels Señorita México, Uno soñaba que era rey, El miedo a los animales, El seductor de la patria (winner of the Mazatlán Prize), Ángeles del abismo (winner of the Colima Prize), Fruta verde, La sangre erguida (winner of the Antonin Artaud Prize) and La doble vida de Jesús. His short stories, collected in his books Amores de segunda mano, El orgasmógrafo and La ternura caníbal have been included in most anthologies of contemporary Mexican short stories. In 2003 Gabriel García Márquez named Serna as one of the best Mexican short story writers in an anthology published by Cambio review. As an essayist, Serna has published three books that share the dark humor of his fiction: Las caricaturas me hacen llorar, Giros negros and Genealogía de la soberbia intelectual. Some of his works have been translated into French, Italian, German, English and Portuguese. He presently writes a monthly article for the influential Mexican cultural...