Guadalupe Nettel
Guadalupe Nettel (born 1973) is a Mexican writer. She has published four novels, including "The Body Where I Was Born" (2011) and "After the Winter" (2014). 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 País", "The New York Times", "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. From a young age she suffered from eye problems, including nystagmus and cataracts, as well as a spot on her cornea. She was consequently a victim of bullying, a fact that, according to Nettel, was one of the reasons that led her to take refuge in books and start writing. 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", "La Repubblica" and "La Stampa". She is the editor of the "Revista de la Universidad de México" of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). 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" ("After the Winter"). 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 three English-language works of fiction with Seven Stories Press: "Natural Histories" (2014), "The Body Where I was Born" (2015)., and "Bezoar And Other Unsettling Stories" (2020). "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.