Mouthful of Birds

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the twenty-two best writers in Spanish under the age of thirty-five by Granta in 2010, and in 2017 she was named one of the Bogotá39’s best Latin American writers under age forty. Her first novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017. She is the author of award-winning story collections, and her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.