Guadalupe Nettel

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, 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[2] 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.[3]

She has published three English-language works of fiction with Seven Stories Press: Natural Histories (2014)[4], The Body Where I was Born (2015).[5], 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.

Novels

• El huésped, Editorial Anagrama, 2006, ISBN 9788433971289
• El cuerpo en que nací, Editorial Anagrama, 2011, ISBN 9788433933201
  • Nettel, Guadalupe (16 June 2015). The Body Where I was Born. Translated by Lichtenstein, J.T. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-60980-527-2.[6][7]
• Después del invierno, Anagrama, 2014, ISBN 9788433997845
  • Nettel, Guadalupe (2018). After the Winter. Translated by Harvey, Rosalind. Coffee House Press. ISBN 9781566895330.
• La hija única, Editorial Anagrama, 2020, ISBN 9788433999061

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
• Natural Histories, translated by J. T. Lichtenstein, Seven Stories Press, 2014, ISBN 9781609805517
• Bezoar And Other Unsettling Stories, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press, 2020, ISBN 9781609809584

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.

• Birns, Nicholas (2013). The contemporary Spanish-American novel : Bolaño and after (First ed.). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781441140395. OCLC 853287118.

• 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