Marcela Serrano, born in 1951, is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, Para que no me olvides, won the Santiago Literary Prize. Her second book, Nosotras que nos queremos tanto, received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. In 2001, she was a runner-up in the Premio Planeta competition for her novel Lo que está en mi corazón. Carlos Fuentes once described her view of the modern woman as "able to change like a snake sheds its skin, freeing herself from old, limiting situations."

Biography

Marcela Serrano is the daughter of novelist Elisa Serrana and engineer and essayist Horacio Serrano.

She is known as a "late editor," meaning she began writing at age 38 and published her first novel at age 40. This novel, titled We who love ourselves very much, was released in 1991 and became successful the following year. It later won two awards. Although she wrote many books as a child, she discarded them all. Marcela has written many works, including books from the "género negro" genre and children’s books. One of these children’s books was created in collaboration with Margarita Maira, one of her daughters.