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Martha Batiz Zuk (1971) is an award-winning, Mexican-Canadian writer, who was born and raised in Mexico City, but has been living in Toronto since 2003. She started publishing in 1993 at age 22. ==Writing career== By age 25 she had been awarded the most prestigious Creative Writing scholarships available in Mexico: from the Mexico’s Institute of Fine Arts (1993–94); from the former Mexican Writers’ Centre (Centro Mexicano de Escritores in 1994–95) where famous writers like Carlos Fuentes, Rosario Castellanos, Homero Aridjis, among many others also received scholarships at the beginning of their careers; and Young Creators from the National Fund for the Culture and the Arts〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes – Martha Cantú Alvarado, Directora General )〕 (1995–96). In 1996 she was the first Mexican to ever be awarded an ''accesit'' in the International Short-story Contest "Miguel de Unamuno" in Salamanca, Spain, where her story competed against 1,708 entries from Latin America and Spain. In the anthology of the winning stories, published by the Caja Salamanca y Soria in 1997, Martha is the only female and also the youngest writer. She appears alongside writers such as Juan Manuel de Prada. Martha held a weekly column in the Cultural Section of newspaper ''Uno Mas Uno'' and its cultural supplement ''Sábado'' from 1993 to 1999. She has also collaborated with magazines such as ''Nexos'', ''Etcetera'',〔http://www.etcetera.com.mx/〕 ''El Universo del Buho'' and ''El Reto''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=El Reto )〕 In Canada, she published articles in the Hispanic newspaper ''El Correo Canadiense''.〔http://www.elcorreo.ca/elcorreo/〕 Her story ''Ants'' was published in ''Exile Literary Quarterly'' in the Summer Issue of 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EXILE QUARTERLY/30.2 )〕 Some of her short stories are featured online in the following websites www.ficticia.com,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cuento. Ficticia Comunidad Literaria ciudad virtual de cuentos e historias )〕 www.torontohispano.com,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Toronto Hispano, Radio Canadiense regala bebes, Peru Gourmet Canada 2011, AluCine, Circumcisame, Muerte de Steve Jobs, Toronto Chocolate Festival, Vinos Chilenos en Canada, Ocupar Wall Street )〕 Canasanta.com,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=:: CaÑaSaNtA :: Revista de Arte y Cultura Contemporánea )〕 www.palabrasdiversas.com〔http://www.palabrasdiversas.com〕 and Diálogos Online Forum.〔http://dialogos.ca/2012/12/mammoth-monologue/〕 Her articles, chronicles, reviews and short stories have appeared in diverse newspapers and magazines also in Spain, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Peru and Canada. Her short-stories have received awards in literary contests in Mexico and Spain. She published a short-story collection called ''A todos los voy a matar'' (''I’m Going To Kill Them All'') in 2000. "La primera taza de cafe" ("The first cup of coffee") was published by Ariadna Press in Mexico City in May 2007, featuring a collection if selected articles, chronicles and short-stories published from 1993 until 1999 in "Sabado", the cultural supplement of Mexican newspaper Uno Mas Uno. Martha also collaborated with the essay "Mexico visto desde Canada, o de mi vecino chilango y otros asuntos relevantes" in the book "Mexico visto desde lejos", published by Taurus and El Colegio de Chihuahua〔http://www.elcolegiodechihuahua.edu.mx/〕 in January 2008. A new edition of Martha's short-stories is forthcoming with Terranova Editores〔http://terranovaeditores.com/libreria/〕 in Puerto Rico in the summer of 2012. In December 2005, she was awarded the SOMOS Latin American Achievement Award in Toronto for her literary work. Her first novel, "Boca de Lobo," placed second in the prestigious novel contest Casa de Teatro〔http://www.casadeteatro.com〕 in the Dominican Republic and was published by Leon Jimenes Press in that country. "Boca de lobo" has also been published in Mexico, by the Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura 〔()〕 and in English as "The Wolf's Mouth" in Canada, by Exile Editions.〔()〕 More recently, her short story "The Last Confession" was published in the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series by Exile Editions.〔()〕 This as a result of the 2012 Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition open to all Canadian writers, which features the competition finalists. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martha Bátiz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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