User:DreeLeigh/Hernan Diaz (writer)

Personal life
Diaz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When he was two, his family moved to Sweden after the military coup. His family returned to Argentina after democracy was restored in 1983. Diaz was interested in writing at an early age, and even "pretended" to write, showing his parents his "stories." After obtaining a BA in Literature (Licenciatura en Letras) in the University of Buenos Aires, Diaz moved to London to study a MA degree at King's College. Diaz moved to New York in 1999 for additional studies. He received his PhD from New York University, advised by Avital Ronell and Sylvia Molloy. He filed a dissertation on a topic that straddles comparative literature, Latin American literature, and philosophy.

When he was two, his family moved to Sweden after the military coup.

Borges, Between History and Eternity (2012)
Borges, Between History and Eternity was published by Continuum on August 2, 2012. The book considers "key aspects of Borges's work--the reciprocal determinations of politics, philosophy and literature; the simultaneously confining and emancipating nature of language; and the incipient program for a literature of the Americas."

In the Distance (2017)
In the Distance was published on October 10, 2017 by Coffee House Press.

Publishers Weekly, Feminist Press, PANK, and The Paris Review named it one of the top books of 2017, and Literary Hub named it one of "The 20 Best Novels of the Decade."

The book has received the following accolades:


 * William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction (2018)
 * VCU Cabell First Novelist Award (2018)
 * Prix Page America Award (2018)
 * New American Voices Award (2018)
 * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (2018)
 * PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist (2018)

Trust (2022)
Trust was published by Riverhead Books on May 3, 2022. It received the 2022 Kirkus Prize and 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Short stories

 * "The Wife of the Lion" (2018) in The Kenyon Review
 * "1,111 Emblems" (2018) in Playboy
 * "‘I Am Going to Speak to You about Anxiety’" (2018) in Granta
 * "The Stay" (2018) in The Paris Review
 * "Triptych" (2023) in Harper's Magazine

Essays

 * "Let me tell you a true story" (2023) on BookPage
 * "The Heart of Fiction: Storytelling, experience, and truth" (2021) in The Yale Review
 * "Tove Jansson on Writer’s Block" (2019) in The Paris Review
 * "Tove Jansson’s 'The Island'" (2019) in The Paris Review
 * "Who Gets to Be a Mad Scientist?" (2018) in The Paris Review
 * "On Frankenstein, A Monster of a Book" (2018) in The Paris Review
 * "We stigmatize accents, but language belongs to everyone" (2018) on PBS NewsHour
 * "On Making Oneself Less Unreadable" (2017) in The Paris Review
 * "If I Had a Sense of Beauty" (2017) in The Paris Review
 * "Monument" on Kadist