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Enrique Serna (born 11 January 1959) is a Mexican writer.
Serna was born inMexico City. Before devoting himself entirely toliterature, he was ascriptwriter for variousMexicansoap operas and wrote biographies of popular Mexican figures as well as working in the advertising industry as a copywriter. He has published the novelsSeñorita 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) andLa doble vida de Jesús. His short stories, collected in his booksAmores de segunda mano,El orgasmógrafo andLa ternura caníbal have been included in most anthologies of contemporary Mexican short stories. In 2003Gabriel García Márquez named Serna as one of the best Mexican short story writers in ananthology published byCambio review. As an essayist, Serna has published three books that share the dark humor of his fiction:Las caricaturas me hacen llorar,Giros negros andGenealogía de la soberbia intelectual. Some of his works have been translated intoFrench,Italian,German,English andPortuguese. He presently writes a monthly article for the influential Mexican cultural reviewLetras Libres.
