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Samanta Schweblin won the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her story collection, Seven Empty Houses. Her debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and her novel Little Eyes and story collection Mouthful of Birds have been longlisted for the same prize. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages, and her stories have appeared in English in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's Magazine and elsewhere. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin lives in Berlin. Megan McDowell is a translator from the US, and has collaborated with authors including Alejandro Zambra, Mariana Enríquez and Samanta Schweblin. Her translations have won the National Book Award for Translated Fiction, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize and the Kirkus Prize. She was the recipient of the 2020 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She currently resides in Chile.
Remarkably taut, clear, precise, and yet capable of capturing the extent of our human messiness, these stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside -- Colum McCann, author of <i>Apeirogon</i> No one writes like Samanta Schweblin. Her narratives are sui generis - wonderfully unpredictable and invitingly strange -- Lorrie Moore, author of <i>I am Homeless if This Is Not My Home</i> Samanta Schweblin combines the urgent propulsion that characterizes all great storytelling with precise, if uncanny, descriptions of human feelings that often go unnamed, those ambiguous zones of human reality where awe, dread, and desire mingle -- Siri Hustvedt, author of<i> Memories of the Future</i>
