Guadalupe Nettel was born in Mexico in 1973 and grew up between Mexico and France. She obtained a PhD in linguistics from the EHESS  in Paris. She is the author of the international award winning novels El huésped (2006), The Body Where I was Born (2011), After the Winter (2014, Herralde Novel Prize) and La hija única (2020). She has also published three collections of short stories: Les jours fossils (2002), Pétalos y otras historias incómodas (2008), Natural Histories (2013, Ribera del Duero Prize). In 2008 she was named by the Hay Festival as one of the more promising Latin American authors.

Her work has been translated into over ten languages and has appeared in publications like Granta, The White Review, El País, the New York Times, La Repubblica, and La Stampa. She currently lives in Paris as a writing fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

BY GUADALUPE NETTEL:

Los divagantes
STORIES, 2023
La hija única
NOVEL, 2020
Después del invierno
NOVEL, 2014
El matrimonio de los peces rojos
STORIES, 2013
El cuerpo en que nací
NOVEL, 2011
Pétalos y otras historias incómodas
STORIES, 2008
El huésped
NOVEL, 2006