Guadalupe Nettel is the author of El huésped (shortlisted for the 2005 Herralde Prize) and her later acclaimed works Bezoar & Other Unsettling Stories, The Body Where I Was Born, After the Winter (2014 Herralde Novel Prize) and La hija única (2020). She has also written El matrimonio de los peces rojos (Ribera del Duero International Short Fiction Prize). Her work has been translated into 18 languages and her books have won international prizes such as the Gilberto Owen National Fiction Prize, the Antonin Artaud Award and the Ana Seghers Prize.