Nona Fernández Silanes was born in 1971 in Santiago, Chile. She is an actor and writer. As a writer, she has published various books, including the novels Mapocho (2002), winner of the Municipal Literature Award; Space Invaders (2013), shortlisted for the National Book Award; Chilean Electric (2015), winner of the National Book Council's Best Published Works award; The Twilight Zone (2022), distinguished with the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, awarded by the Guadalajara Book Fair, and finalist for the National Book Award; and her recent works Voyager and Preguntas Frecuentes. Her books have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Greek, Turkish, Norwegian, Dutch and Portuguese. She is the author of the plays El Taller, Liceo de niñas, Paren la Música, the stage version of Space Invaders and the recently released Der eingebildete Tote.
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