Hernán Díaz

Hernán Díaz is an Argentine-American writer born in Buenos Aires in 1973. At age two his family fled to Sweden after Argentina's 1976 military coup, returning when democracy was restored in 1983. He earned a PhD in comparative literature from New York University and is associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University.

His debut novel, In the Distance (2017), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the William Saroyan International Prize. His second novel, Trust (2022), won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

He is also the author of the academic study Borges, between History and Eternity (2012).