Aline Pettersson

Aline Pettersson is a Mexican novelist and poet. Her novels deal with the themes of loneliness, heartbreak, isolation and the passage of time that razes all.

Early life

Petterson was born in Mexico City on 11 May 1938. Her father was the son of Swedish parents. Pettersson recounts beginning to read with the children's books of author Monteiro Lobato. She was later introduced to the works of Charles Dickens, Luego vino Salgari and Sor Juana. Pettersson intended to study medicine, however she married young and had three children, but continued to write. She began to take courses at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the UNAM.

Career

In 1977, with the help of writer Salvador Elizondo, Pettersson published her first novel, Círculos. A majority of her protagonists are women. One of her favorite literary devices is the use of internal monologue- which she uses to explore "imaginary time" not real time. Her writing has been influenced by Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust.

Pettersson is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte del Fonca-Conaculta. She won the 1998 Premio Latinoamericano y del Caribe "Gabriela Mistral". The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes paid homage to Pettersson in 2008. She has been a collaborator with newspapers El Universal and La Jornada. She has translated Sorgegondolen (La fúnebre góndola, 2012) by Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer.