Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. She received the Premio Nadal in 1944.
Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. In 1966, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.
Anna Seghers, is the pseudonym of German writer Anna Reiling, who was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. She was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City (1941–47).
Martha Batiz Zuk is a Mexican-Canadian writer, who was born and raised in Mexico City, but has been living in Toronto since 2003. She started publishing in 1993 at age 22.
Idella Purnell was a Mexican academic, librarian, teacher, and children's book author.
María Amparo Escandón is a Mexican-born American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, advertising creative director, and film producer. Her literary work is known for addressing bi-cultural themes that deal with the immigration experience of Mexicans crossing over to the United States. Her stories concentrate on family relationships, loss, forgiveness, faith, and self-discovery. Her work has been translated into over 21 languages and is currently read in more than 85 countries.
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro is a Puerto Rican novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
Cristina Rivera Garza is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mexican author and professor best known for her fictional work, with various novels such as Nadie me verá llorar winning a number of Mexico’s highest literary awards as well as awards abroad. She was born in the state of Tamaulipas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, and has developed her career in teaching and writing in both the United States and Mexico. She has taught history and creative writing at various universities and institutions, including the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Tec de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, and University of California, San Diego, but currently holds a position at the University of Houston. She is the recipient of the 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, and her recent accolades include the Juan Vicente Melo National Short Story Award, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, and the Anna Seghers Prize.
Cecilia Eudave is a Mexican writer, researcher, and university professor.
Giovanna Rivero is a Bolivian novelist and short story writer. She is one of Bolivia's most successful contemporary fiction writers. Her work has been described as belonging to the Latin American Gothic literary movement.
Inés Camelo Arredondo was a Mexican writer. In 1947 she enrolled in the department of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1958 she married the writer Tomás Segovia. She won the Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 1979 for her novel Río subterráneo .
Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who translates works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. With the author Olga Tokarczuk, she was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Flights. In 2020, she was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her autofictional memoir Homesick.
Jorge Consiglio is an Argentine poet, novelist and writer. He was born in Buenos Aires and studied at the University of Buenos Aires. He has published four novels, and has won numerous literary prizes in Argentina and Spain. He has also published several volumes of short stories and poetry. The short story collection Villa del Parque has been translated into English under the title Southerly.
Margarita García Robayo is a Colombian novelist and writer. She was born in Cartagena on the Caribbean coast. She has written several novels and short story collections as well as a book of autobiographical essays. Her book Cosas peores won the Casa de las Américas Prize in 2014. Her work has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew, and Chinese.
Carolina Orloff is an Argentine publisher and translator. She was born in Buenos Aires and studied at the University of York and the University of Leeds. In 2010, she obtained her PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Edinburgh, later becoming a postdoctoral research fellow at the same institution.
Iona Macintyre is a scholar and translator, specializing in Latin American culture and literature. She studied at the University of Glasgow, and did her PhD at the University of Nottingham. She now teaches at the University of Edinburgh.
Ellen Jones is a British writer and translator. She studied at Oxford University and Queen Mary University of London, completing a PhD from the latter. Her research focused on literary multilingualism and translation. She has taught at Goldsmiths University of London, Queen Mary University of London, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has translated contemporary Latin American authors including Margo Glantz, Bruno Lloret, and Iván de la Nuez. Her translation of Rodrigo Fuentes' short story collection Trout, Belly Up was published by Charco Press in 2019. Her 2022 book Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas deals with translating multilingual literature, in particular, that of U.S. Latinx authors Susana Chávez-Silverman, Junot Díaz, and Giannina Braschi; and Brazilian writer Wilson Bueno.
Katya Adaui is a Peruvian writer. She was born in Lima, lived in Pueblo Libre and studied journalism at Bausate y Mesa and then creative writing at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. She won the National Literature Prize of Peru in 2023 in the short story category for her book Geografía de la oscuridad. Her new book of short stories Un nombre para tu isla is a finalist for the 2024 Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero.
Cristina Bendek is a Colombian writer. She was born on the island of San Andrés off the Caribbean coast of Colombia, and lived in Bogota and Mexico City. She published her acclaimed debut novel Salt Crystals in 2018. It won the Elisa Mújica National Novel Prize and has been translated into several European languages including Portuguese and Dutch. The English translation by Robin Myers was published by Charco Press. She has published also Hilar el ritmo: o la búsqueda que no termina.
