Patricio Pron

Patricio Pron was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1975. He graduated from the Department of Social Communication at the National University of Rosario.
He works as a literary critic and writer; his work has been translated into more than nine languages, including English, German, French and Italian.

His short stories have been published in magazines such as the Paris Review and the Michigan Quarterly Review. In 2010, he was selected by the British magazine Granta as one of the twenty-two best young Spanish-language writers.

For his short story ‘Es el realismo’, he was awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize in 2004, and for his body of work he was honoured with the Cálamo Extraordinario Prize in 2016. In 2019, he won the Alfaguara Prize for Best Novel for his book *Tomorrow They Will Call Us by Another Name* (Ikaros, 2020).

Patricio Pron holds a PhD in Romance Studies from the University of Göttingen in Germany. He lives in Madrid.