Pilar Adón

(Madrid, 1971). She is a storyteller, poet, translator and editor at Impedimenta. She is the author of the short story books El mes más cruel (Impedimenta), awarded the Fnac New Talent Award for Literature, and Viajes inocentes (Páginas de Espuma), winner of the Ojo Crítico de Narrativa Prize, as well as the novels Las hijas de Sara (Alianza Editorial) and El hombre de espaldas, awarded the I Premio Ópera Prima de Nuevos Narradores, 1999. She published Las Efímeras (Galaxia Guttenberg) in 2015. In 2017 she published La vida sumergida (GG), the poetry collection Da dolor (La Bella Varsovia, 2020) and De bestias y aves (2022), also published by Galaxia Guttenberg, a novel she was awarded the Francisco Umbral Prize for. Pilar Adón has translated works by notable authors such as Henry James, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Edith Wharton. Additionally, her short stories have been translated into multiple languages.

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