Daniel Saldaña París (Mexico City, 1984) is the author of the novels En medio de extrañas víctimas, El nervio principal, El baile y el incendio (shortlisted for the Herralde Novel Prize in 2021) and Los nombres de mi padre, as well as the book of narrative essays Aviones sobrevolando un monstruo and the audio essay Los asistentes del sol. He was a fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library (2022) and in 2020 won the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Prize in the United Kingdom. He has been a writer-in-residence at the Union des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois, MacDowell, Art Omi, The Banff Centre, the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires and the Jan Michalski Foundation, among others. He is currently a fellow at the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts and a member of the Mexican National Network of Artists.
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