Alia Trabucco

Writer, editor, and lawyer. She studied law at the University of Chile, earned a master's degree in creative writing from New York University, and a doctorate in Hispanic American literature from University College London. In 2015, she published the novel La resta, which was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and won her the Chilean Ministry of Culture's Best Unpublished Novel Award, an award she won again in 2021 with the novel Limpia. In 2019, she also published Las homicidas, a book about emblematic cases of female murderers. She currently directs the Lenguas cruzadas collection for the Brutas Editoras publishing house. In 2022, she was awarded the Seghers Prize for her literary career.