Selva Almada (Argentina, 1973) is a writer. She is the author of the novels The Wind That Lays Waste (2019), No es un río (2020), and Brickmakers (2021); the short stories contained in Los inocentes (2019); and the books of non-fiction El mono en el remolino. Notas del rodaje de Zama de Lucrecia Martel (2017) and Dead Girls (2020), among others. She has received various distinctions and awards, such as the Edinburgh First Book Award for The Wind That Lays Waste; and the IILA Prize for the best Latin American novel published in Italy in 2021/2022 for No es un río (2020). Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. She co-wrote the feature film Jesús López (2023 Cóndor de Plata Award for Best Screenplay), by Maximiliano Schonfeld. She currently lives in Buenos Aires and runs Salvaje Federal, a bookshop that specializes in literature written and published in the Argentinean provinces.