Paulina Flores (Santiago de Xile, 1988)

She studied literature at the University of Chile. Since 2021, she has lived in Barcelona, where she completed a Master’s degree in literary creation at the Barcelona School of Management of the Pompeu Fabra University. In that same year, she also participated in the “Granada writers in residence” programme.

Her first book, Humiliation, was translated into more than seven languages and selected as one of the ten best books by the newspaper El País, in Spain. She has won the Roberto Bolaño Prize, the Critics Circle Prize, the Municipal Literature Prize and in 2019 the Bauer Giovanni, in Venice. In 2021, she was selected by Granta as one of the 25 best narrators in the Spanish language, in the under-35 category. She also published her first novel: Isla Decepción, which won the Independent Bookstores of Chile Prize for best book of the year in the fiction category, which is being translated into English, Japanese and Dutch, among others.

During 2022 she formed part of CAN CAB Residency in Girona. She has been a teacher and has led the podcast Confieso que he leído; she performs talks and workshops on creative writing processes, and she collaborates as a columnist for the El País newspaper.

Presentation updated in September 2022