Fernanda Melchor (born 1982, Veracruz, Mexico) is a Mexican writer best known for her novel Hurricane Season, for which she won the 2019 Anna Seghers Prize and a place on the shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize.
Melchor has published fiction and nonfiction in The Paris Review, La Palabra y el Hombre, Letras Libres, Excélsior, Replicante, Milenio semanal, Le Monde diplomatique, Vice Latinoamérica, GQ Latinoamérica, and Vanity Fair Latinoamerica. She began her writing career in 2013 with the publication of Aquí no es Miami (2013), a collection of literary journalism, and Falsa Liebre (2013), her first novel.
In 2018, Melchor won the PEN Mexico Award for Literary and Journalistic Excellence. In 2019, Melchor was awarded the International Literature Award as well as the Anna Seghers-Preis along with the German writer Joshua Gross. Melchor’s 2021 book, Paradais, translated by Sophie Hughes, was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize.
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