Sergio Missana


Sergio Missana is a Chilean novelist, journalist, scholar, editor, scriptwriter and environmental advocate. He is a professor of Latin American literature at the Stanford University Overseas Studies Program in Santiago, Chile, and Executive Director of the Climate Parliament, an environmental NGO.

Biography

Missana is the author of seven novels: El invasor, 1997; Movimiento falso, 2000, a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Award in 2001; La calma, 2005; El día de los muertos, 2007; Las muertes paralelas, 2010; El discípulo, 2014; and Entremuros. He published the critical study La máquina de pensar de Borges, based on his dissertation at Stanford University, in 2003, and the collection of essays La distracción in 2015. In 2012 he co-authored Lugares de paso, a collection of travel pieces, with photographer Ramsay Turnbull. He published, with his daughter Maya, the children’s books Luis el tímido, 2008, Boris y las manzanas, 2011, and El gallo loco, 2013. With his daughter Sofía, he published No es justo, 2014, and No es mi culpa , 2019.
Missana holds an MA and a PhD in Spanish from Stanford University. He earned a BA in Social Communications and a Professional Degree in Journalism from the University of Chile. He currently teaches Latin American literature at the Stanford University Overseas Studies Program in Santiago, Chile.
Between 2002 and 2006, Missana served as Director of Publications and Head of International Relations at the BBVA Foundation in Madrid, Spain, and as member of the Governing Council of the European Foundation Centre, based in Brussels. He was editor-in-chief of Chilean music magazine Rock & Pop. In 2007, he co-wrote the award-winning animated TV series for children Chilian Geografic, which raised awareness of Chilean endangered animal species. He is currently Executive Director at the Climate Parliament, a UK-based NGO that addresses climate change by promoting the transition to renewable energy.
His journalistic work includes over fifty articles on literature, film, music, travel, art, design, culture and science. He has published articles and reviews in PRL, Fractal, Literal Magazine, La Tercera, El Mercurio, Planet, Pausa Magazine of the National Council of Culture and the Arts, Paula and Rock & Pop, among other publications.
He divides his time between Washington, CT, and Santiago, Chile. He lives with his wife, Ramsay Turnbull, and their three children.

Works

Novels