title: Elisa Lerner
text: # Elisa Lerner
  
  Elisa Lerner Nagler (Valencia, 6 June 1932), is 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 was awarded with the National Prize for Literature.
  
  