Fernanda Melchor was born in Veracruz, Mexico. She is the author of Hurricane Season, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes. In 2018, she won the PEN Mexico Award for Literary and Journalistic Excellence.
‘It’s easy to forget the power of words in an era ruled by profuse, beautiful and entrancing images.’ Fernanda Melchor, recently longlisted for the International Booker, speaks to her translator Sophie Hughes.
