Samanta Schweblin is the author of the novel, Fever Dream, a finalist for the Man Booker International and her first book translated into English.
She was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta and is on the Bogota39-2017 list. Her stories in Spanish have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and in English have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into 20 languages. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.
Samanta will be a short-term writer-in-residence on the Other Worlds project when she travels to Adelaide for Writers’ Week and visits The University of Adelaide to participate in some events.
A link to one of Samanta Schweblin’s short stories translated into English, ‘Preserves – Words without Borders’