Daniel Saldaña París (Mexico City, 1984) is a writer and translator. He is the author of the book of poems La máquina autobiográfica (Bonobos, 2012; Los Libros de la Mujer Rota, 2019); of the novels En medio de extrañas víctimas (Sexto Piso, 2013), El nervio principal (Sexto Piso, 2018) and El baile y el incendio (Anagrama, 2021, shortlisted for the Herralde Novel Prize), and of the book of narrative essays Aviones sobrevolando un monstruo (Anagram, 2021). In 2017 he was included by the Hay Festival in the Bogotá39 list of the best Latin American writers under 40 years of age; in 2020 he won the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writers’ Award, given by the British Library and the Hay Festival in the UK, and in 2022-2023 he was a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars.
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