Brenda NAVARRO  (fiction writer, editor; Spain/Mexico) is the author of the novels Casas Vacías, published in English as Empty Houses (2021), which won Spain’s Tigre Juan Award in 2020, and Ceniza en la boca [Mouth Full of Ash], the recipient of the 2022 Best Book of Fiction awarded by Spanish booksellers and placing on the 2023 Premio Vargas Llosa shortlist. Currently, she is at work on fiction “about language and borders within the US-Mexico space of war.”  Her participation is courtesy of the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC and a gift from the estate of W.B. Quarton. 

Countries
Spain
Mexico
Languages
Spanish
Session
2023
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