Páradais
novel · First published 2021
Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise
Author guide
Fernanda Melchor Books in Order
Fernanda Melchor (born 1982 in Veracruz, Mexico) is a Mexican writer, journalist, essayist, and translator. She studied journalism at the Universidad Veracruzana and earned a master's degree in Aesthetics and Art from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Her fiction and narrative nonfiction often examine violence, class, gender, criminality, and social breakdown in Veracruz. Her novel Temporada de huracanes won the 2019 Anna Seghers Prize and Germany's 2019 International Literature Award, and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize.
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Falsa liebre
Her debut novel and the chronological starting point for her fiction.
Temporada de huracanes
Her most acclaimed novel and a representative entry point into her distinctive literary style.
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Novels (4)
- Falsa liebre
novel · 2013
- Aquí no es Miami
nonfiction · 2013
Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sórdidos. Lo que su libro hace es manifestar la ignominia en toda esta rudeza. En una época de límites borrosos entre la verdad y la mentira,…
- Temporada de huracanes
novel · 2017
Un grupo de niños encuentra un cadáver flotando en las aguas turbias de un canal de riego cercano a la ranchería de La Matosa. El cuerpo resulta ser de la Bruja, una mujer que heredó dicho oficio de su madre fallecida, y a quienes los…
- Páradais
novel · 2021
Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise
