In 2011 she won the Anna Seghers-Preis for the quality of her work, in 2012 the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her novel Sangre en el ojo.

[2] And, in 2023, the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano de Letras Jose Donoso Born in Santiago, Chile, Lina Meruane is of Palestinian and Italian descent.

In 1997 she received a writing grant from the National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts [es] (FONDART) to finish her first book of stories.

[1] In the United States she received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation in 2004 (for the novel Fruta Podrida),[4] and another in 2010 from the National Endowment for the Arts (for Sangre en el ojo).

In 2011 she received the Anna Seghers-Preis, and the following year she won the 20th Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award for Sangre en el ojo, during the Guadalajara International Book Fair, with a jury made up of the writers Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Antonio Ortuño, and Cristina Rivera Garza.