Guadalupe Nettel

Guadalupe Nettel , is a écrivaine born with Mexico City in 1973.

Biography

She studies a doctorate in the École of the High Studies in Social sciences of Paris.

She wrote novels, tales and tests. Its texts deserved prices and the attention of criticism in some countries.

Its last book: El Huésped (publisher Anagrama, 2006) with which he was a finalist of the Herralde Price; published simultaneously in French, the Host by Actes Sud.

Soon, the publisher Anagrama, will publish Pétalos , its new book of tales which was prize winner with the National Price of Literature Gilberto Owen in Mexico.

It published in some anthologies in Spain, in Mexico and in France.

It took part in the project In my Room, directed by the artist Agnès De Cayeux: " A text emerges however and overhangs the ensamble, signed Guadalupe Nettel . Tallied like a fixed plan, supported on objects-fetishes, Fenêtre admirably says the erotic tension which emerges from the distance from the corps." (Sylvain Bourman, Inrockuptibles)

Guadalupe Nettel has collaborated, for a few years, with reviews distinct and literary francófonos and Spanish-speaking supplements like the workshop from the novel, the disadvantage, Quimera, Cultura/s of Vanguardia, That Leer, Confabulario, El Ángel, Hoja por Hoja there Letras Libres.

It directs the Magazine Number Zero, a project of intersection between the Latin-American cultures and francófonas.

After having lived with the Mexico and the Canada, she currently lives between Paris and Barcelona, where she grants some seminars of writings, and a workshop of Potential Literature, based in Oulipo.

Guadalupe Nettel was marked some times between more detached Latin-American writers of its generation.

In 2006, the Gatopardo magazine chose it like one of the " representing most famous of this new generation of auteurs" and in 2007, in Bogotá Capitale World of the Book included it in the listing with the old writers of less 39 years most representative of the current literature in the Latino-American continent and the Caribbean one, close to Jorge Volpi and Juan Gabriel Vásquez, between the others.

Press

Juan Ignacio Boido wrote on " Hôte" : " In a crossing between the psychological terror of Henry James and the fantastic Literature of Julio Cortázar, the novel of Guadalupe Nettel is as a door hidden in a library; she trails suddenly in a Mexican unhoped-for under-world, with a parallel universe, the center of a brotherhood of " freaks" , of handicapped and estropiés emotive which lives the city according to its own rules live the city according to its own rules, with the place where the visceral poets of Roberto Bolaño communient in the Federal District with the fragile women inébranlables but of Haruki Murakami. "

" For, they solve enigma of which we are or, which beings live us, " The Host " propose a mysterious and worrying fiction. Nettel proposed to tell us what we do not see and hardly we want to prevent, the reality of cesspool which an outside world succumbs to the relumbrado" Newspaper ABC. " It will be necessary to follow the steps to Guadalupe Nettel , since its beginning is very promising, full with a talent and with a quality with very high page". Newspaper El Correo Español.

" Its writing disregards obviousness to be inserted in the truths of furtive, of that not apprehends with the sens". Newspaper El País.

" Almost immediately, the brilliant prose of Nettel - a fast writing but incisor arms a solid skeleton to make live together the reflection with the faits" , Mauro Libertella, Página/12

“The atypical glance and the feather of a Mexican young woman… soulingne her intérênt for the glance related to limits freaks , invisible outsiders of the semi-fantastic demi-monde that it réalistement animates with magic around an attaching character who could preseque being a headstock at Marie Darrieussecq”, Inrockuptibles.

“Brilliant. This novel of initiation makes rock an ordinary young girl towards a parallel company where it finds her place.” Bibascope Books.

“The novel of Guadalupe Nettel is a free electron oú the young destille author a ambience out of the time which tosses us between dream and reality. Sublimate table of a embourbée young woman dabs her anguishes whose revealing one is a shady community with the underground lives.” the Country.

“Vertiginous and worrying. Mexican the Guadalupe Nettel flirte with the fantastic one and distills the doubt without never slicing” Sophie Pujas.

Works

Novel

El Huésped (2006) (publisher Anagrama) - the Host (Actes Sud)

Tales

Juegos de Artificio (1993)
fossil days (2003)

Prices

Price of the Best News in French language para países No francófonos, of Radio France Internacionale (1992)
finalist of the XXIII Herralde Price of the Novels (2005)
National Price of Literature Gilberto Owen in Mexico. (2007)

External bonds

Leading International Anagrama
Actes Sud
Radio France International

Radio France - Cultura Al día

In my Room
Librería the Exchange - To tiller of Literatura Potencial
Capital Bogotá del Libro
Festival Hay Bogotá
Black and white Revista of Página, Bogotá 39

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