Hernan Diaz: 'I take the ethical implications of storytelling very seriously. I'm careful never to deceive anyone'
The author of Trust talks about tackling the taboo of money, why he writes with a fountain pen and his love of Borges
Hernan Diaz
Hernan Diaz was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award, he is the author of two novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Diaz has published stories and essays in The Paris Review, Granta, Playboy, The Yale Review, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. His first novel, In the Distance, was the winner of the Saroyan International Prize, the Cabell Award, the Prix Page America, and the New American Voices Award, among other distinctions. It was also a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year and one of Lit Hub’s 20 Best Novels of the Decade. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Ingmar Bergman Estate. He holds a PhD from NYU, edits an academic journal at Columbia University, and is also the author of Borges, between History and Eternity. His second novel, Trust, is being published in 25 countries.
There is a dazzling intelligence behind this novel, which challenges us to rethink everything we know both about the institutions on which nations are built and the narratives by which stories are told. Sly, sophisticated, insistently questioning, Diaz writes with assurance, determined to rob us of every certainty.
— The 2022 judges on Trust
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Longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022. A literary puzzle about money, power, and intimacy, Trust challenges the myths shrouding wealth, and the fictions that often pass for history.
