After the Winter

Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico City, 1973) was voted one of the thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the 2006 Bogotá Hay Festival. She is the author of Juegos de artificio (False Games), Les jours fossils (Fossil Days), Pétalos y otras historias incómodas (Petals and other Awkward Stories), El huésped (The Host), El cuerpo en que nací (The Body Where I Was Born) and El matrimonio de los peces rojos (Natural Histories). She is the recipient of the Radio France International Award, the Anna Seghers prize, the Prix Antonin Artaud, the Gilberto Owen Short Story Prize and the Ribera del Duero Prize, and her work has been translated into more than ten languages. She lives in Mexico City.Rosalind Harvey (translator) is a literary translator of contemporary Spanish writing. She has worked on books by many authors, such as Guadalupe Nettel, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Enrique Vila-Matas, Hector Abad, and Elvira Navarro. Her translations have been shortlisted for prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Arts Foundation Award, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.