Guadalupe Nettel
The New York Times described Guadalupe Nettel’s English-language debut, Natural Histories, as ‘five flawless stories’. A Bogotá 39 author, Nettel has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Gilberto Owen National Literature Prize, the Antonin Artaud Prize, the Ribera del Duero Short Fiction Award and, most recently, the 2014 Herralde Novel Prize. Her books have been translated into twelve languages, and her novel, The Body Where I Was Born, has recently been translated into English. She lives and works in Mexico City.
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Divination
Guadalupe Nettel
‘It is easy, when we are young, to have ideals and to live according to them.’
An excerpt from Guadalupe Nettel’s Still Born.
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Bonsai
Guadalupe Nettel
‘Bonsai have always prompted a kind of fear in me, or at least a puzzling discomfort.’
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The Wanderers
Guadalupe Nettel
'Childhood felt like a waiting room, a transitory phase between birth and the life we wanted.'
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Bezoar
Guadalupe Nettel
‘This was the morning I discovered the anatomy of a hair.’ New fiction by Guadalupe Nettel, translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery.
