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.[4]
Guadalupe Nettel | |
|---|---|
 Guadalupe Nettel, Coyoacan, 2018 | |
| Born | 1973 Mexico City |
| Language | Spanish |
| Education | PhD École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales BS National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Genres | novel, short story |
| Notable awards | Premio Cálamo, 2020[1] Premio Herralde de Novela, 2014[2] Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero, 2013[3] Anna Seghers Prize, 2009 |
Life
editGuadalupe 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 due to a congenital condition in one of her eyes, probably Peters' syndrome. 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.[5] 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 Granta, El País, The New York Times, La Repubblica and La Stampa.
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[6] 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.[7]
She has published three English-language works of fiction with Seven Stories Press: Natural Histories (2014),[8] The Body Where I was Born (2015).,[9] 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.
From 2017 to 2024 she was the chief editor of the Revista de la Universidad de México of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Bibliography
edit- 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.[10][11]
- 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
- Still Born, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Translated by Harvey, Rosalind, 2022, ISBN 9781913097660
- 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
- El otro lado del muelle, in Bajo la soledad del neón: Antología de cuento contemporáneo de América Latina (With authors as Liliana Colanzi and Daniel Rojas Pachas) Ecuador: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 2021. ISBN 9789978775394.
- 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.
Awards and recognition
edit- Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (2023) for Still Born[12]
- Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (2021)
- Recipient of the Borchard Foundation Literary Fellowship (2021, 2022, 2023[13])
- Winner of the Cálamo Prize (2020)
- Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2016)
- Winner of the XXXII Premio Herralde de Novela (2014) for After the Winter[14]
- Winner of the III Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero (2013)[15]
- Winner of the Anna Seghers Prize (2009)
- Winner of the Gilberto Owen National Prize of Literature (2008)
- Winner of the jeunes Alliance française prize (1992)
References
edit- ^ Informedor.mx (2021-01-19). "Premio Cálamo "Otra Mirada 2020: Guadalupe Nettel gana por "La hija única"".
- ^ El País (2014-11-03). "La mexicana Guadalupe Nettel gana el 32 Premio Herralde de Novela". El País.
- ^ Ana MArcos (2013-03-20). "La escritora mexicana Guadalupe Nettel, premio de relato Ribera del Duero 2013". El País.
- ^ "Revista de la Universidad de México". Revista de la Universidad de México. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
- ^ "Guadalupe Nettel: "La ceguera determina mucho lo que escribo"". Diario Correo (in Spanish). 26 June 2014. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ Ana Marcos (March 21, 2013). "La escritora mexicana Guadalupe Nettel, premio de relato Ribera del Duero 2013". El País. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
- ^ "Guadalupe Nettel - Words Without Borders". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ "Natural Histories | Seven Stories Press". Sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
- ^ " The Body Where I was Born | Seven Stories Press". Sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
- ^ 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'". Los Angeles Times. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ Shaffi, Sarah (14 March 2023). "International Booker prize announces longlist to celebrate 'ambition and panache'". The Guardian.
- ^ "Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts - Fellowships". borchardlit.org. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ Geli, Carles (3 November 2014). "El "mundo neurótico" de Guadalupe Nettel gana el Herralde de Novela". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ Marcos, Ana (21 March 2013). "La escritora mexicana Guadalupe Nettel, premio de relato Ribera del Duero 2013". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 July 2023.
Further reading
edit- Birns, Nicholas (2013). The contemporary Spanish-American novel : Bolaño and after (First ed.). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781441140395. OCLC 853287118.
External links
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Media related to Guadalupe Nettel at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
- 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
