The Little Eyes author discusses our complicated relationship with technology, and reveals that an affectionate robot vacuum cleaner helped inspire the novel
Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, and she has been nominated for the International Booker Prize three times
Schweblin’s debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2017. In 2019, she was longlisted for the prize for Mouthful of Birds. She was longlisted again in 2020 for Little Eyes.
In 2011, she was selected by Granta magazine as one of the 22 best young novelists writing in Spanish. Her books have been translated into over 30 languages, and her work has appeared in English in The New Yorker and Harper’s magazine. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.
All nominated books
Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this taut, unsettling ghost story for the real world
Spine-tingling and strange, Samanta Schweblin's writing expertly blurs the line between the surreal and the everyday
Samanta Schweblin creates a dark and complex world that is both familiar and unsettling – largely because we recognise it as the one we live in
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