Fernanda Trías
Fernanda Trías (Uruguay, 1976) is the author of the novels Cuaderno para un solo ojo, La azotea [The Rooftop], La ciudad invencible, Mugre rosa [Pink Slime], and El monte de las furias, as well as the short story collection No soñarás flores. For Mugre rosa, she received the Uruguayan National Literature Prize (2020), the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Critics’ Prize (Uruguay, 2021), and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize (Mexico, 2021). Mugre rosa was also longlisted for the National Book Awards in the United States in 2024 and is currently being adapted for film. Both La azotea and Mugre rosa received British PEN Translates Awards in 2020 and 2022. In 2025, she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize for the second time for El monte de las furias, making her the second author to have ever received this prize twice.
Her short stories have been published in international magazines including Granta, The Southwest Review, Albaa, Latin American Literature Today, and Effe Italia, among others. She was a finalist for both the Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez in 2017 and the Ribera del Duero Prize in 2023. She has been a writer-in residence at Universidad de los Andes and has been awarded scholarships and residencies from Unesco Aschberg (France), Casa de Velázquez & Festival Eñe (Spain), Yaddo (USA), Willapa Bay AiR (USA), Civitella Ranieri (Italy), and others. Her novels have been translated into twenty languages, and she has been invited to lecture at universities in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Italy, France, Germany, and Spain. She speaks Spanish, English, and French and has lived in Colombia since 2015, where she teaches at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo’s Creative Writing master’s program.
“Fernanda Trías is a sort of well-known secret. (…) She is intense, truthful, concise, visual.”
“At odds with the sterile literature that is currently trendy, Fernanda Trías is one of the most interesting contemporary narrators of Spanish-language literature.”
“Therein lies her skill: she narrates what seems to be impossible to narrate. The seeds of pain, the trembling feat that is the attachment to life.”
“Trías submerges her characters in a dark well, replaces borders all the time, processes an emotional narrative that is uncommon in our literature—with the prestigious precedent of Armonía Somers’s disturbing writing—through the tension and intensity of her poetics of pain that are linked to the body, sex, and fear in all of its expressions, where language is no less dramatic than life itself.”
“Fernanda Trías cuts her phrases with a scalpel, lightly reclining the page onto the words to get to the very marrow of language.”
“The drama in Trías’s characters is also the drama of a language that, with the cadence of a style that found its voice from the very first book, expresses the agonizing side of those confined to the abyss of their own interiority.”
BY FERNANDA TRÍAS:
El monte de las furias
NOVEL, 2025
Mugre rosa
NOVEL, 2020
La azotea
NOVEL, 2018
No soñarás flores
STORIES, 2016
La ciudad invencible
NOVEL, 2013