Hispanic Studies

Pilar Quintana is the author of five novels and a book of short stories. La perra (The Bitch, New York, World Editions, 2020), which has been translated into more than twenty languages, was on the long list for the Dublin Literary Award, was a finalist for the Premio Nacional de Novela and the National Book Award, and won the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana, an English PEN Translates Award, and the LiBeraturpreis. With her book Los abismos (Abyss, New York, World Editions, 2023), translated into multiple languages, she won the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2021 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is the editor of the Biblioteca de Escritoras Colombianas (The Library of Colombian Female Writers), a publishing project of the Ministry of Culture to rescue and promote women's literature.

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