Hernan Diaz is the New York Times-bestselling author of four books translated into thirty-seven languages: Trust, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and is one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the Century; In the Distance, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award; and Borges, Between History and Eternity. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kirkus Award, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, among other honors. Ply, his latest novel, released in 2026, was an instant national bestseller.
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