Fernanda Melchor reveals how the fragility of Mexican society inspired her novel Paradais.
Fernanda Melchor
Fernanda Melchor has been nominated twice for the International Booker Prize – longlisted in 2022 and shortlisted in 2020
She born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, is a writer and journalist who lives and works in Puebla. In 2013 she published a collection of short stories and a novel: Aqui no es Miami and Falsa liebre (both with Almadia), followed by Hurricane Season in 2017.
All nominated books
Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of Mexico’s most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society
Fernanda Melchor’s formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons, written with a brutal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling
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