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 (winner of the
Ribera del Duero award ) as
Natural Histories (2014)''
, as well as the novel The Body Where I Was Born
(2015), and her collection Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories'' (2020).
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. 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 '''' of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico's longest-running cultural magazine. == Bibliography ==