Guadalupe Nettel


Guadalupe Nettel is a Mexican writer. She won the Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero and the Premio Herralde literary awards. She has been a contributor to Granta, The White Review, El Pais, The New York Times en Español, La Repubblica and La Stampa. Her works have been translated to 17 languages. She is the editor of the Revista de la Universidad de México, the oldest cultural magazine in Mexico.

Life

Guadalupe Nettel was born in Mexico City and spent part of her childhood in the south of France. She obtained a PhD in linguistics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her work has been translated to more than 17 languages. She is a contributor to various magazines and publications including as Granta, El País, The New York Times en Español, La Repubblica and La Stampa. She is the editor of the Revista de la Universidad de México of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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.
She has published two English-language works of fiction with Seven Stories Press, Natural Histories and The Body Where I was Born. The Body Where I Was Born was recognized on the Three Percent Best Translated Book Longlist and as a Neustadt International Prize for Literature Finalist.

Awards and other recognition