Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin was born in Buenos Aires in 1978, where she studied Film and Television. She is the author of the short story collections Mouthful of Birds, which won the Casa de las Américas Literary Prize, and Seven Empty Houses, which won her the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2022, as well as the novels Fever Dream, a finalist for the International Booker Prize, and Little Eyes. Considered one of the finest writers in South American literature of recent decades, her work has been translated in more than twenty-five countries.