Paulina FLORES

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Paulina Flores (Santiago, Chile, 1988) has a degree in Hispanic Literature from the University of Chile and a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Her first book, a collection of nine stories published under the title Humiliation (Hueders, Santiago, 2015; Seix Barral, Barcelona, ​​2016) was translated into multiple languages ​​and selected as one of the ten best books by El País. The work, which dazzled critics and audiences thanks to the solidity, originality and surprising maturity of its writing, won the Roberto Bolaño Prize, the Círculo de Críticos Prize, the Municipal Literature Prize, and, in 2019, the Bauer Giovanni Award in Venice. She is also the author of the novel Deception Island (Seix Barral, 2021), which won the LINC Prize for best book of the year in the fiction category. It has been translated into English, Japanese and Dutch, among other languages. She has been a teacher and host of the podcast Confieso que he leído; she gives talks and workshops on creative writing processes; and is a columnist for El País. Associated with the group of "eighties" writers of post-boom fiction, in 2021 she was selected by Granta as one of the twenty-five best Spanish-language women writers under the age of thirty-five. Her work La próxima vez que te vea, te mato (2025) has been published with Anagrama.

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