Elisa Lerner

Elisa Lerner Nagler (6 June 1932 – 24 November 2024) was a Venezuelan playwright and essayist. Among her works are the plays: Vida con mamá and En el vasto silencio de Manhattan; the essays volume Yo amo a Columbo o la pasión dispersa and the chronicle books: Carriel para la fiesta and Crónicas ginecológicas. In 1999, she was awarded the National Prize for Literature.

Lerner died on 24 November 2024, at the age of 92.

Works En el vasto silencio de Manhattan (1961, play) Una sonrisa detrás de la metáfora (1969, essay) Vida con mamá (1976, play) Yo amo a Columbo (1979, essays) Carriel número cinco (1983, chronicles). Crónicas ginecológicas (1984, chronicles). Carriel para la fiesta (1997, chronicles) En el entretanto (2000, short s Homenaje a la estrella (2002, short stories) De muerte lenta (2006, novel) Así que pasen cien años (2016, collected chronicles)