Selva Almada

Selva
Almada

Compared to Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, Selva Almada (Argentina, 1973) is considered one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Latin American literature. She has published several novels, a book of short stories, a book of journalistic fiction and a film diary. She has been finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Medifé Prize, the Vargas Llosa Prize for Novels, the Rodolfo Walsh Award and of Tigre Juan Award. Her debut novel in English, The Wind that Lays Waste, won the EIBF First Book Award (2019), and Not a River was shortlisted for the Booker International Prize.

Compared to Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, Selva Almada (Argentina, 1973) is considered one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Latin American literature. She has published several novels, a book of short stories, a book of journalistic fiction and a film diary. She has been finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Medifé Prize, the Vargas Llosa Prize for Novels, the Rodolfo Walsh Award and of Tigre Juan Award. Her debut novel in English, The Wind that Lays Waste, won the EIBF First Book Award (2019), and Not a River was shortlisted for the Booker International Prize.

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