Marianne Díaz Hernández

Marianne Díaz Hernández (born in Altagracia de Orituco, on June 4, 1985), is a Venezuelan fiction writer,[1] lawyer and human rights activist.

[2] She is a researcher and an activist on the intersection of technology and human rights, and was an active member of Creative Commons Venezuela and Global Voices, being part of the latter's board as a representative of their volunteer base between 2018 and 2019.

[3] Between the years of 2016 and 2021 Díaz Hernández worked as a public policy officer at the Latin American NGO based in Chile, Derechos Digitales.

[8] As a fiction writer, she published her first book of short stories in 2007, after winning the Contest for Unpublished Authors held by Monte Ávila Editores.

[10] In 2011, she won the I National Biennial of Literature Gustavo Pereira with her book “Historias de mujeres perversas”,[11] which was published in 2013 by El perro y la rana.

Marianne Díaz in 2020