Guadalupe Nettel

Guadalupe Nettel
Guadalupe Nettel, Coyoacan, 2018
Born	1973 (age 51–52) Mexico City
Occupation	Writer
Language	Spanish
Education	PhD École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales BS National Autonomous University of Mexico
Genres	novel, short story
Notable works	Still Born The Accidentals After the Winter
Notable awards	Shortlisted International Booker Prize, 2023 [1] Premio Herralde de Novela, 2014 [2] Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero, 2013 [3] Anna Seghers Prize, 2009
Website
www.guadalupenettel.com

Guadalupe Nettel (born 1973) is a Mexican writer. She has published four novels, including The Body Where I Was Born (2011), After the Winter (2014) and Still Born (2023), 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 ^[4] and adapted for film and theater. ^[5]

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. ^[6] In 2009, she received the Anna Seghers Prize in Berlin. ^[7]

The US-based publisher Seven Stories Press published her short-story collection El matrimonio de los peces rojos (winner of the Ribera del Duero award ^[8] ) as Natural Histories (2014) ^[9] , as well as the novel The Body Where I Was Born (2015), ^[10] and her collection Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories (2020). ^[11]

After the Winter (winner of the Premio Herralde) was published by MacLehose Press in the United Kingdom and by Coffee House Press in the US. ^[12]

In 2022, her novel Still Born, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize ^[13] 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." ^[14]

Between 2024 and 2025, she was a fellow at the Institute for Ideas & Imagination at Columbia University in Paris. ^[15]

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. ^[16]

From 2017 to 2024 she was the director of the Revista de la Universidad de México of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) the longest-running cultural magazine of Mexico. ^[17]

Bibliography

• Les jours fossiles, Translated Marianne Millon, L'éclose éditions, 2002, ISBN   9782914963015
• El huésped, Editorial Anagrama, 2006, ISBN   9788433971289
• Pétalos y otras historias incómodas, Editorial Anagrama, 2008, ISBN   9788433971661
  • Bezoar And Other Unsettling Stories. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. Seven Stories Press. 2020. ISBN   9781609809584.
• El cuerpo en que nací, Editorial Anagrama, 2011, ISBN   9788433933201
  • The Body Where I was Born. Translated by J.T. Lichtenstein. Seven Stories Press. 2015. ISBN   978-1-60980-527-2. ^{[18] [19]}
• 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.
• Después del invierno , Editorial Anagrama, 2014, ISBN   9788433997845
  • After the Winter. Translated by Rosalind Harvey. Coffee House Press. 2018. ISBN   9781566895330.
• La hija única , Editorial Anagrama, 2020, ISBN   9788433999061
  • Still Born. Translated by Rosalind Harvey. Fitzcarraldo Editions. 2022. ISBN   9781913097677.
• Los divagantes, Editorial Anagrama, 2023, ISBN   978-84-339-0818-6
  • The Accidentals. Translated by Rosalind Harvey. Fitzcarraldo Editions. 2025. ISBN   9781804271476.

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 honors

• Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (2023) for Still Born ^[20]
• Recipient of the Borchard Foundation Literary Fellowship (2021, 2022, 2023 ^[21] )
• Winner of the Cálamo Prize (2020) ^[22]
• Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2016)
• Winner of the XXXII Premio Herralde de Novela (2014) for After the Winter ^[23]
• Winner of the III Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero (2013) ^[24]
• 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)

References

1. El País (2023-04-17). "Guadalupe Nettel, finalista del International Booker Prize por 'La hija única'". El País.
2. El País (2014-11-03). "La mexicana Guadalupe Nettel gana el 32 Premio Herralde de Novela". El País.
3. Ana Marcos (2013-03-20). "La escritora mexicana Guadalupe Nettel, premio de relato Ribera del Duero 2013". El País.
4. "Revista de la Universidad de México". Revista de la Universidad de México. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
5. "Guadalupe Nettel". Fitzcarraldo Editions. Retrieved 2025-10-19.
6. "Bogotá 39 - Hay Festival" . Retrieved 2025-10-19.
7. "Anna Seghers Prize awarded to Guadalupe Nettel" . Retrieved 2025-10-19.
8. Ana Marcos (March 21, 2013). "La escritora mexicana Guadalupe Nettel, premio de relato Ribera del Duero 2013". El País . Retrieved December 7, 2014.
9. "Natural Histories| Seven Stories Press". Sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
10. " The Body Where I was Born| Seven Stories Press". Sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
11. "Guadalupe Nettel - Seven Stories Press" . Retrieved 2025-10-19.
12. "Guadalupe Nettel wins Premio Herralde in 2014" . Retrieved 2025-10-19.
13. Manley, Janet (2023-04-18). "Here is the 2023 International Booker Prize shortlist". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2025-10-19.
14. "Still Born". Fitzcarraldo Editions. Retrieved 2025-10-19.
15. "Guadalupe Nettel - Institute for Ideas and Imagination" . Retrieved 2025-10-19.
16. "Mexican Writer Guadalupe Nettel to Headline Puterbaugh Festival at OU, by the Editors of WLT". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
17. admin (2024-11-21). "Se renueva la Revista de la Universidad". Gaceta UNAM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-10-22.
18. Rowland, Amy (2015-07-02). "'The Body Where I Was Born,' by Guadalupe Nettel". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-02-03.
19. "The past returns in Guadalupe Nettel's 'The Body Where I Was Born'". Los Angeles Times . 28 August 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
20. Shaffi, Sarah (14 March 2023). "International Booker prize announces longlist to celebrate 'ambition and panache'". The Guardian.
21. "Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts - Fellowships". borchardlit.org. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
22. "Guadalupe Nettel gana el Premio Cálamo 'Otra Mirada 2020' con 'La hija única'". Editorial Anagrama (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-10-22.
23. Geli, Carles (3 November 2014). "El "mundo neurótico" de Guadalupe Nettel gana el Herralde de Novela". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 July 2023.
24. Marcos, Ana (21 March 2013). "La escritora mexicana Guadalupe Nettel, premio de relato Ribera del Duero 2013". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 July 2023.

Further reading

• Birns, Nicholas (2013). The contemporary Spanish-American novel : Bolaño and after (First ed.). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   9781441140395. OCLC   853287118.

External links

• Media related to Guadalupe Nettel at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• Works by Guadalupe Nettel at Open Library
• Best Untranslated Writers: Guadalupe Nettel, Granta
• The Fantastic Is Always Possible: A Q&A with Guadalupe Nettel, Brazos
• An Interview with Guadalupe Nette, Bookslut, June 2014