Karina Sainz Borgo

Writer and journalist

Lives in Madrid

Karina Sainz Borgo was born in Caracas in 1982 and emigrated to Spain in 2006, where she now lives. Her relatives still live in Venezuela. She works as a journalist in Madrid and writes for various newspapers and blogs in Spain and Latin America. La hija de la española (in German Nacht in Caracas, Fischer-TB 2019) is her first novel, published in 2019.

The novel tells the story of a young Venezuelan woman who tries to flee a crumbling country after the death of her mother. Time Magazine named this title one of the 100 most important books of 2019.