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second novel, Soledad’s Sister, was shortlisted for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize, and he haswon 16 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Dalisay’s books have also been publishedin the United States, Italy, France and Spain. He is a professor of English and creative writing at theUniversity of the Philippines.HERNÁN DIAZA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Hernán Diaz has published stories and essays in Cabinet, TheNew York Times, The Kenyon Review, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His first novel,In the Distance, was translated into a dozen languages and was the winner of the Saroyan InternationalPrize, the Cabell Award, the Prix Page America, and the New American Voices Award, among otherdistinctions. It was also a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year, one of Lit Hub’s Top 20 Books ofthe Decade, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has a PhD from NYU, edits an academicjournal at Columbia University, and is also the author of Borges, between History and Eternity.ANTONIO DÍAZ OLIVAAntonio Díaz Oliva (ADO) is a Chilean writer living in Chicago. He is the author of the novel La soga delos muertos and the short story collections La Experiencia Formativa, La Experiencia Deformativa andLas Experiencias. He is also the editor of 20/40 and Estados Hispanos de América (Nueva NarrativaLatinoamericana Made in USA), in which he brings together authors who write in Spanish and live inthe United States. He received the Roberto Bolaño Young Writers Award and the National Book Awardfor Best Story Collection of the Year. He was chosen by FIL-Guadalajara as one of the most outstandingLatin American writers born during the 80s. His journalism and essays have been publishedin Asymptote, Rolling Stone, Latin American Literature Today, Gatopardo, Letras Libres and ElMalpensante. He teaches bilingual creative writing and translation at Saint Xavier University.ALBERTO FERRERASAlberto Ferreras is a New York based Spanish/Venezuelan writer and director. He created, executedproduced and directed the HBO documentary series Habla (2003-2020). His award-winning novelB as in Beauty (Hachette) was published in the U.S., Spain, and Italy in 2009. His short films Verbal Sex(1999) and Tómbola (1997) premiered at the Berlinale, and Bigger (2004) premiered at Outfest andwas presented at London’s B.F.I. He is currently consulting for the Smithsonian Latino Center inWashington D.C.LILIAN GRANADOSLilian Granados is a Venezuelan journalist graduated from the Andrés Bello Catholic University and asurgeon graduated from the UCV. Radio host, she also works on digital journalism as a disseminator ofcultural and scientific information on digital networks. She studied Ballet and Contemporary Dance.ISABEL GREENBERGIsabel Greenberg is a London-based illustrator and writer and the author of three acclaimed graphicnovels: The Encylopedia of Early Earth, The One Hundred Nights Of Hero and her latest Glass Town(2020). She is the illustrator of a number of children’s books including One Hundred Billion TrillionStars, Power Up and The Ocean In Your Bathtub. Isabel studied illustration at the University ofBrighton and an MA in animation at the Royal College of Art. She is an associate lecturer atCamberwell College of Arts, UAL.

FERNANDO IWASAKIFernando Iwasaki, born in 1961 in Lima, is a Peruvian writer and historian. He has published more than20 volumes of fiction and non-fiction, such as Neguijón, El Libro del Mal Amor, Helarte de Amar andPapel Carbón, among others. He contributes regularly to various newspapers and magazines. His workhas been translated into half a dozen languages, including Russian, English, French, Italian, Romanianand Korean. He currently lives in Sevilla, Spain, where he is a Professor at the Loyola University.LOLA LARUMBELola Larumbe is a bookseller, born in Madrid in 1960. She has been in charge of the Rafael Albertibookstore in Madrid for more than 40 years. In 2005, the bookstore was awarded the Premio LibreroCultural by the Spanish Ministry of Culture for its Encuentros en la Alberti project. The independentpublishers of Madrid awarded it the Bibliodiversity Prize in 2004 for the variety and richness of its bookcollection, with more than 20,000 titles.PEDRO MAIRALPedro Mairal is an Argentine novelist, essayist, poet, and professor of English literature. He firstgarnered critical and public acclaim with the 1998 publication of One Night with Sabrina Love, forwhich he was awarded the Premio Clarín. In 2007, he was included in the Bogotá39, which named thebest Latin American author. In 2016 he published La Uruguaya, which won the Tigre Juan Prize in 2017and which, after its publication in Argentina, has been published in more than ten editions by theSpanish publishing house Libros del Asteroide. Nick Caistor’s translation of Mairal’s novel The MissingYear of Juan Salvatierra has just been published by New Vessel Press.JUAN MALPARTIDAJuan Malpartida is a poet, narrator and literary critic born in Marbella, Spain, in 1956. He has publishednovels such as Señora del Mundo, Camino de Casa; Reloj de Viento and La Tarde a la Deriva. He is theauthor of several essays such as Octavio Paz: un Camino de Convergencies, Los Rostros del Tiempoand Mi Vecino Montaigne, published in 2021. As a poet, his books stand out: Espiral; Bajo un MismoSol; A un Mar Futuro and Río que Vuelve, among others. He has won the City of Barbastro NovelAward and the ABC Cultural & Ámbito Cultural Award.RICARDO MENÉNDEZ SALMÓNRicardo Menéndez Salmón (Gijón, Spain, 1971) is a Spanish writer. He is best known for his trilogy ofnovels La Ofensa, Derrumbe and El Corrector. He has also published a travel book, a play, poems andshort stories. He contributes regularly to Spanish newspapers and literary journals. He holds a degreein Philosophy from the University of Oviedo. He has won many literary prizes, including the2016 Premio Biblioteca Breve for El Sistema, and has been translated into many languages, althoughnot so far into English. His latest work, which appeared in January 2020, is a memoir entitled No entresdócilmente en esa Noche quieta.ANDREA MONTEJOAndrea Montejo, born in Colombia, graduated from the University of Paris IV-Sorbone. She started hercareer in the publishing industry at HarperCollins New York, where she co-founded Rayo, an imprintfor Latin American and Spanish-language books that sought to bring to the United States titles ofSpanish and Latin American authors. In 2007 she founded Indent Literary Agency that representsglobal authors in Spanish, Portuguese and English language.

ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINAOne of the foremost authors of the new Spanish narrative, Antonio Muñoz was born in Úbeda, Spain,in 1956. He studied geography and history at the University of Granada, where he lived for almost 20years. He began writing in the 1980s and his first published book, El Robinson Urbano, a collection ofhis journalistic work, was published in 1984. His novels include Beatus Ille, Winter in Lisbon, Plenilunio,and El Jinete Polaco, among others. He has received the Premio Planeta, the National Narrative Prize,the Jerusalem Prize, and the Prince of Asturias Award for literature. Margaret Sayers Peden’s Englishlanguage translation of his novel Sepharad won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Heis a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.GUADALUPE NETTELGuadalupe Nettel, born in 1973, is a Mexican writer. She has published four novels, including TheBody Where I Was Born and After the Winter. She won the Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera delDuero and the Premio Herralde literary awards. She has been a contributor to Granta, The WhiteReview, El País, The New York Times, La Repubblica and La Stampa. Her works have been translatedinto more than twenty languages. She is the editor of the Revista de la Universidad de México, theoldest cultural magazine in Mexico.ANDRÉS NEUMANAndrés Neuman was born and spent his childhood in Buenos Aires. The son of exiled Argentineanmusicians, he grew up in Granada, where he taught Latin American literature at the University ofGranada. He was part of the first Bogotá39 list and was selected by the British magazine Granta as oneof the best new writers in Spanish. He is the author of novels such as Bariloche, Una vez Argentina,El Viajero del Siglo, Hablar solos and Fractura, and books of short stories such as Alumbramiento andHacerse el Muerto. An anthology of his extensive poetic work has been collected in the volume Casafugaz. His most recent book is Anatomía sensible. His work has been translated into more than twentylanguages. He has received the Critics’ Prize, the Alfaguara Prize and the Hiperion Poetry Prize.MARIANO PEYROUMariano Peyrou, born in 1971, is a Spanish writer. He lives in Madrid, where he works as a teacher ofCreative Writing, Jazz History and Music Aesthetics. He has published the books of poems La Voluntadde Equilibrio, A Veces Transparente, La Sal, Estudio de lo Visible and Posibilidades en la Sombra,among others. He is also the author of the novels De los Otros and Los Nombres de las Cosas. He hasrecently published an essay on poetry, Tensión y Sentido.SARAH POLLACKSarah Pollack is a professor of Latin American literature and translation studies at the College of StatenIsland, University of New York City, and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her translations from Spanish intoEnglish include authors such as Juan Villoro, Fabio Morábito, Enrique Fierro and Oswaldo Estrada, andhave been published in leading literary journals such as Bomb, Gulf Coast and International PoetryReview. She has also published the poetry collections Eloise by Silvia Eugenia Castillero and ReasonEnough by Ida Vitale. Her translation of the novel An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg, by Mexicanauthor Alain-Paul Mallard, will be published by Wakefield Press.

PILAR QUINTANAPilar Quintana is a Colombian writer. She was born in Cali and studied at the Javeriana University inBogota. She is best known for her novels La Perra, which won the IV Award Biblioteca de NarrativaColombiana, and Coleccionistas de Polvos Raros, which won the La Mar de Letras Award. Her shortstories have appeared in magazines and anthologies across Latin America, and in Spain, and Germany.In 2007, the Hay Festival Bogotá named Quintana among the 39 most important Latin Americanwriters under the age of 39.KARINA SAINZ BORGOKarina Sainz Borgo was born and raised in Caracas. She began her career in Venezuela as a journalistfor El Nacional. Her first novel, It Would Be Night in Caracas, critically acclaimed by critics and readers,won the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro and the International Literary Prize. Considered oneof the best books of the year by NPR and Time, it is being translated into twenty-six languages andhas sold movie rights. In 2019, Karina Sainz Borgo was chosen one of the 100 most creative people inForbes magazine. El Tercer País is her latest novel.ALMUDENA SÁNCHEZAlmudena Sánchez is a writer and journalist born in Mallorca, Spain, in 1985. La Acústica de los Iglúswas her first book of short stories, which has already reached its eighth edition and has also beenpublished in Argentina. Some of her short stories have been translated into English and published inTwo Lines magazine. In 2019 she was selected among the ten best young writers in Spain by AECID.Her latest novel is titled Fármaco.JAMES SCORERJames Scorer is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. Hisresearch focuses on Latin American urban imaginaries, particularly those of Buenos Aires, and on LatinAmerican cultural production, especially photography and comics. He is the author of City in Common:Culture and Community in Buenos Aires and the editor of Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America.He is also co-editor of Comics and Memory in Latin America.KARLA SUÁREZKarla Suárez a Cuban writer, born in Havana in 1969. She studied classical guitar and has a degree inelectronic engineering. She is the author of four novels and four short stories. Her books have receivedmany international awards, including the Lengua de Trapo Prize for her 1999 debut novel Silencios.Her stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines published in Europe, the United States, andLatin America. In 2007, she was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the Bogotá39 writers, whichpresents the best Latin American authors under the age of 40. Havana Year Zero is her third novel andhas obtained the Prix Carbet of the Caribbean and Tout-Monde and the Insular Book Prize, both inFrance. It is her first book to be published in English (2021).LORENZO SILVALorenzo Silva is a Spanish writer born in 1966 in Madrid, Spain. He is the author of El AlquimistaImpaciente (Nadal Prize) The Faint-Hearted Bolshevik. Both novels were made into films. In October2012, he was awarded the Premio Planeta de Novela for La Marca del Meridiano. An author ofimmense popularity among readers, he has also published titles such as Tantos Lobos, Ahí afuera,

Donde uno cae and Diario de la Alarma. His latest work is Castellano. Several of his books have beentranslated into fourteen languages.ANNA SOLER-PONTBorn in 1968 in Barcelona, Anna Soler-Pont studied Arabic Language and Culture at the University ofBarcelona while she worked in publishing. In 1992 she founded Pontas Literary & Film Agency,representing a wide range of authors and maintaining its focus on multicultural projects. In 2005 shepublished an anthology of African stories and legends entitled A Marvellous Book of African Stories forChildren. In 2007, she published the book Rastres de Sàndal, co-authored with Asha Miró, which in2014 was made into a film directed by Maria Ripoll.QHAN ZHOU WUQuan Zhou Wu is an illustrator and graphic novelist, born in Algeciras in 1989. In 2015 she debutedwith her book Gazpacho Agridulce, a biography about her Chinese-Andalusian world, which wasfollowed by Andaluchinas por el Mundo, Gazpacho Agridulce 2, El gran Libro de los Niñosextraordinarios and Gente de aquí. She studied in Madrid and graduated in England.MARGARYTA YAKOVENKOMargaryta Yakovenko was born in Ukraine in 1992, but at the age of seven she moved to Murcia,Spain. She is a writer and a journalist specialized in International Politics. She has been an editor andwriter at PlayGround and she currently works at El País. Her first novel, Desencajada, has arousedextraordinary enthusiasm among readers.JESSICA ZAFRAJessica Zafra is a Filipino fiction writer, columnist, editor, publisher, and former television and radioshow host. Her most popular books are the Twisted series, a collection of her essays as a columnist forthe newspaper Manila Standard Today, as well as from her time as editor and publisher of themagazine Flip. She currently writes a weekly column for InterAksyon.com. She lives in Manila, whereshe is working on her first novel.www.cervantes.es

Antonio Muñoz Molina, Pilar Quintana, José Balza and Guadalupe Nettel, among . interviews have appeared in the New York Review of Books Daily, the Paris Review, Words Without Borders, Bomb, . VICTOR DEL ÁRBOL Víctor del Árbol was born in Barcelona in 1968