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.

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 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. 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 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.

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).

Awards and recognition

 * Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (2023) for Still Born
 * Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (2021)
 * Recipient of the Borchard Foundation Literary Fellowship (2021, 2022, 2023 )
 * 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
 * Winner of the III Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero (2013)
 * 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)