Fernanda Trías
Fernanda Trías (Uruguay, 1976) is the author of novels La Azotea (The Rooftop), La ciudad invencible (The Invincible City), and Mugre rosa (Pink Slime), as well as the short story collection No soñarás flores and the chapbook El regreso. Her work has also been included in anthologies in Germany, Colombia, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, the US, and the UK, including 20/40 and Palabras Errantes. Her work has been translated into German, French, Hebrew, English, and Italian so far. La azotea was selected as one of the best books of the year by El País Cultural and was awarded the National Uruguayan Literature Prize. In 2006, she received the BankBoston Foundation Prize for National Culture. She was a friend and student of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero and participated in the creation of De los flexes terpines, a collection directed by Levrero that published fifteen titles, almost all by new writers. In the fifth volume of that collection, Trías published her first novella, Cuaderno para solo un ojo.
In 2004, she won the Unesco-Aschberg scholarship for writers and went to France, where she lived for five years. In 2010, She moved to Buenos Aires, where she worked as a translator, reader, and copyeditor for multiple publishing houses. In 2012, she won a scholarship to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. In 2017, she won the first SEGIB-Eñe-Casa de Velázquez Prize and residency in Madrid for her project Mugre rosa. She lives in Bogotá, Colombia, where she has taught at the Universidad Nacional’s Creative Writing MFA. In 2019, she was selected for the “Writer-in-Residence” program at the Universidad de los Andes, where she currently lives and writes.
BY FERNANDA TRÍAS:
Mugre rosa
NOVEL, 2020
La azotea
NOVEL, 2018
No soñarás flores
STORIES, 2016
La ciudad invencible
NOVEL, 2013