Inés Garland

Argentina | 1960

She has published novels and short story collections for adults, young adults and children, and has contributed to various anthologies.

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Published by

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, Editora Instante

Konex Platinum Award in the Young Readers’ Category, 2024

Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi Award, 2023

Alandar Prize for Young Adult Literature.Edelvives, 2021

30th Ala Delta Prize for Children’s Literature. Edelvives, 2019

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2014 for Rock Paper Scissors

She is a translator into Spanish of authors such as Sharon Olds, Lydia Davis, Lorrie Moore, Mavis Gallant and Jamaica Kincaid, amongst others. She coordinates literary workshops.

She is the first Latin American author to win the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, one of the most prestigious prizes for young adult literature in Europe, for her novel Piedra, papel o tijera. Her books are read in schools across Spain and Latin America. She holds frequent meetings with her readers, both in person and online.

She has been compared to Marguerite Duras and Natalia Ginzburg. Her work has been translated into English, German, French, Dutch, Russian and Italian, amongst others.

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

There is no one writing 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

In the contemporary landscape, Garland stands out for her consistency and narrative elegance. El Chorrillero

Garland belongs to that group of contemporary authors capable of moving readers without artifice. El Diario de Tandil

One of the most profound and sensitive voices in contemporary literature. Carolina Isasi, Telva Magazine

The author strikes a remarkable balance between the narrative and the poetic. El Chorrillero

In her books, she explores the transition from childhood to adolescence with great sensitivity, often delving into complex and rarely addressed emotional territories. Erica Tonin, Sunflowers Road