Guadalupe Nettel
| Guadalupe Nettel | |
|---|---|
 Guadalupe Nettel in 2015. | |
| Born |
1973 Mexico City |
| Language | Spanish |
| Alma mater | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales |
| Genres | novel, short story |
Guadalupe Nettel (born 1973) is a Mexican writer.
Life
She was born in Mexico City and obtained a PhD in linguistics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
She has published in several genres, both fiction and non-fiction. Her collection of short stories El matrimonio de los peces rojos won the Premio Internacional de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero and has since been translated into English under the title Natural Histories. She won the Premio Herralde in 2014 for her novel Después del invierno.
In 2007, she was named as one of the Bogotá 39, a list of the most promising young Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine announced at the Hay Festival Bogota.[1]
She has published two English-language works of fiction with Seven Stories Press, Natural Histories (2014) and The Body Where I was Born (2015).
Bibliography
- Novels
- El huésped, Editorial Anagrama, 2006, ISBN 9788433971289
- El cuerpo en que nací, Editorial Anagrama, 2011, ISBN 9788433933201
- Después del invierno, Anagrama, 2014, ISBN 9788433997845
- Stories
- Les jours fossiles, Translated Marianne Millon, L'éclose éditions, 2002, ISBN 9782914963015
- Pétalos y otras historias incómodas, Editorial Anagrama, 2008, ISBN 9788433971661
- El matrimonio de los peces rojos, Páginas de Espuma, 2013, ISBN 9786079278335
- Essays
- Para entender a Julio Cortázar, Nostra Ediciones, 2008, ISBN 9789685447973
- Octavio Paz. Las palabras en libertad. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México. 3 November 2014. ISBN 978-607-11-3487-5.
- Works in English
- The Body Where I was Born. Seven Stories Press. 16 June 2015. ISBN 978-1-60980-527-2.[2][3]
- Natural Histories: Stories. Seven Stories Press. 10 June 2014. ISBN 978-1-60980-552-4.
References
- ↑ "Guadalupe Nettel - Words Without Borders". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ↑ Rowland, Amy (2015-07-02). "'The Body Where I Was Born,' by Guadalupe Nettel". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ↑ "The past returns in Guadalupe Nettel's 'The Body Where I Was Born'". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
External links
- Best Untranslated Writers: Guadalupe Nettel, Granta
- The Fantastic Is Always Possible: A Q&A with Guadalupe Nettel, Brazos
- An Interview with Guadalupe Nette, Bookslut, June 2014