Guadalupe Nettel


Guadalupe Nettel is a Mexican writer. She has published four novels, including The Body Where I Was Born, After the Winter and Still Born, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, as well as three short story collections. She is a recipient of numerous international awards. She has contributed to Granta, El País, The [New York Times], The Yale Review, The White Review, La Repubblica and La Stampa. Her works have been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for film and theater.
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Life and career

Guadalupe Nettel was born in Mexico City and spent part of her childhood in the south of France. She obtained a PhD in linguistics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Nettel's novel El huésped was published by Editorial Anagrama in 2006. In 2007, she was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the Bogotá 39, a group of promising young Latin American authors under forty. In 2009, she received the Anna Seghers Prize in Berlin.
The US-based publisher Seven Stories Press published her short-story collection El matrimonio de los peces rojos as Natural Histories '''', as well as the novel The Body Where I Was Born, and her collection Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories.
After the Winter was published by MacLehose Press in the United Kingdom and by Coffee House Press in the US.
In 2022, her novel Still Born, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and praised by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux as a book that "renders with great veracity life as it is encountered in the everyday, taking us to the heart of the only things that really matter: life, death and our relationship with others."
Between 2024 and 2025, she was a fellow at the Institute for Ideas & Imagination at Columbia University in Paris.
The Accidentals, her most recent collection of short stories, has been published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo in 2025.
Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages. She is a contributor to various magazines and publications including Granta, El País, The New York Times, The Yale Review, La Repubblica and La Stampa.
Guadalupe Nettel frequently delivers lectures and participates in conferences, including the 2023 José Emilio Pacheco Lecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, the 2024 Lancaster International Fiction Lecture, and the 2025 Puterbaugh Lecture. World Literature Today dedicated the 2025 Puterbaugh Festival to celebrating her work.
From 2017 to 2024 she was the director of the Revista de la Universidad de México of the National Autonomous University of Mexico the longest-running cultural magazine of Mexico.

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