She has been nominated again for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019 for the English translation of Mouthful of Birds. Samanta Schweblin was selected as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish below the age of 35 years, by Granta magazine. Translations of her stories have also been published in the Granta and The New Yorker. In 2009, the London-based quarterly newspaper published the English translation of her story, Killing a Dog, in the Summer 2009 issue. Sierte casas vacias (Seven Empty Houses) her third collection of short-stories was published in 2015. Her collection of short stories, Mouthful of Birds won the Casa de las Americas award in 2008. Samanta Schweblin was included in the anthologies Cuentos Argentinos (Siruela, España, 2004), La joven guardia (Norma, 2005), La joven guardia (Norma, 2005), Una terraza propia (Norma, 2006), Quand elles se glissent dans la peau d’un homme (Éditions Michalon, Francia, 2007), among others. The book won the first place at the Harold Conti National Contest and an award from Argentina’s National Fund of the Arts. She published her first book, El nucleo del Disturbio (The Nucleus of Disturbances) in 2002. It was also nominated for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. Literary Contributions: Distancia de Rescate (lit.Rescue distance) her first novel was translated into English as Fever Dream which won the Tigre Juan Award in 2015. Her movies include Benavidez’s Case, Killing a Dog and Mariposas. Samanta Schweblin has published a novel, three collections of short stories, besides which she has published stories in magazines and anthologies. She completed her education in Film Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. Background: Samanta Schweblin is born in 1978 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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