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.^[4]

Guadalupe Nettel
Guadalupe Nettel, Coyoacan, 2018
Born	1973 Mexico City
Language	Spanish
Education	PhD École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales BS National Autonomous University of Mexico
Genres	novel, short story
Notable awards	Premio Cálamo, 2020[1] Premio Herralde de Novela, 2014[2] Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero, 2013[3] Anna Seghers Prize, 2009

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.^[5] 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 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^[6] 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.^[7]

She has published three English-language works of fiction with Seven Stories Press: Natural Histories (2014),^[8] The Body Where I was Born (2015).,^[9] 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).

Bibliography

Novels

• El huésped, Editorial Anagrama, 2006, ISBN 9788433971289
• El cuerpo en que nací, Editorial Anagrama, 2011, ISBN 9788433933201
  • Nettel, Guadalupe (16 June 2015). The Body Where I was Born. Translated by Lichtenstein, J.T. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-60980-527-2.^[10][11]
• Después del invierno, Anagrama, 2014, ISBN 9788433997845
  • Nettel, Guadalupe (2018). After the Winter. Translated by Harvey, Rosalind. Coffee House Press. ISBN 9781566895330.
• La hija única, Editorial Anagrama, 2020, ISBN 9788433999061
  • Still Born, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Translated by Harvey, Rosalind, 2022, ISBN 9781913097660

Stories

• Les jours fossiles, Translated Marianne Millon, L'éclose éditions, 2002, ISBN 9782914963015
• Pétalos y otras historias incómodas, Editorial Anagrama, 2008, ISBN 9788433971661
• El matrimonio de los peces rojos, Páginas de Espuma, 2013, ISBN 9786079278335
• Natural Histories, translated by J. T. Lichtenstein, Seven Stories Press, 2014, ISBN 9781609805517
• Bezoar And Other Unsettling Stories, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press, 2020, ISBN 9781609809584
• El otro lado del muelle, in Bajo la soledad del neón: Antología de cuento contemporáneo de América Latina (With authors as Liliana Colanzi and Daniel Rojas Pachas) Ecuador: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 2021. ISBN 9789978775394.

Essays

• Para entender a Julio Cortázar, Nostra Ediciones, 2008, ISBN 9789685447973
• Octavio Paz. Las palabras en libertad. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México. 3 November 2014. ISBN 978-607-11-3487-5.

Awards and recognition

• Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (2023) for Still Born^[12]
• Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (2021)
• Recipient of the Borchard Foundation Literary Fellowship (2021, 2022, 2023^[13])
• 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^[14]
• Winner of the III Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero (2013)^[15]
• 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)