Inés Garland

Argentina | 1960

Winner of the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2014 for Piedra, papel o tijera. In 2019, she won the XXX Ala Delta Award for Literature for children ,Edelvives Group, for her novel Lilo and in 2021 she won the Alandar Award for Young Readers, Edelvives Group, for her novel De la boca de un león.

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German Fischer Verlag, Thlenemann Verlag / French L’école Des Loisirs / Dutch Querido / Italian Feltrinelli, Bompiani Rizzoli Libri, Uovonero / Russian Samokat / Spanish (Spain) Siruela, Edelvives, (Argentina) Alfaguara, Santillana, (Uruguay) Criatura Editorial / Brazil Editora Roça Nova

Winner of the Konex Platinum Award in the Young Readers’ Category, 2024

Winner of the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2014 for Piedra, papel o tijera

She has translated into Spanish authors such as Sharon Olds, Lydia Davis, Lorrie Moore, Mavis Gallant, and Jamaica Kincaid, among others.

She coordinates literary workshops.

She is the first Latin American writer to have received the Deutscher Jungerliteraturpreis 2014 for her novel Piedra, papel o tijera.

She has published novels for adults, teenagers and children, and has taken part in several anthologies.

In 2019 the XXX Ala Delta Award for Literature for children, Edelvives Group, and in 2021 she won the Alandar Award for young readers, Edelvives Group. She was also awarded the Platinum Konex Prize in the Young Readers’ category in 2024.

Her books have been translated into German, French, Russian, Dutch and Italian, among other languages.

Today, her name has a place of its own in Argentinian literature with a reflexive and introspective writing (…) Agencia Télam

We are very lucky to have a writer like Inés Garland. Flavia Pitella

Inés Garland’s writing has the ability to confront an experience head-on, until it reveals the language that opens a previously unseen passage to a deeper truth. Verónica Boix, Revista Eñe