Patricio Pron

Patricio Pron is the author of six short story collections including El mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan (2010), La vida interior de las plantas de interior (2013), and Lo que está y no se usa nos fulminará (2018); as well as eight novels, including El comienzo de la primavera (2008), El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia (2011, 2024), Nosotros caminamos en sueños (2014), No derrames tus lágrimas por nadie que viva en estas calles (2016), and Mañana tendremos otros nombres (2019). He has also written a children’s novel titled Caminando bajo el mar, colgando del amplio cielo (2017), the dream diary Traumbuch (2022), and the essays El libro tachado: Prácticas de la negación y del silencio en la crisis de la literatura (2014) and No, no pienses en un conejo blanco: Literatura, dinero, tiempo, influencia, falsificación, crítica, futuro (2022). A “duel” against a large language model that he found himself involved in resulted in the book titled Pron vs. Prompt (2024).

His work has been regularly awarded prizes and anthologized. In 2010, Granta selected him as one of the 22 Best Spanish-Language writers of his generation. He recently received the Premio Cálamo Extraordinario for his work and the Alfaguara Novel Prize. He has been a Director’s Guest at the Civitella Ranieri and Santa Maddalena residencies, an invited Literature Professor at the University of Cologne in Germany, and a fellow at the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His articles are regularly published in places like Letras Libres, La Vanguardia and El País. His books have been translated into 12 languages and published in 21 countries.

Photo: Ezequiel Zaidenwerg-Dib