Hernan Diaz

Hernán Díaz was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When he was two, his family moved to Sweden after the military coup. His family returned to Argentina after democracy was restored in 1983, and he later moved to London to study an MA at King's College before relocating to New York in 1999. He received his PhD from New York University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. Díaz's debut novel In the Distance (2017) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His second novel Trust (2022), a metafictional story about extreme wealth and capital set in four interlocking fictional texts, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize, was published in thirty-seven languages, and was named to the New York Times's Best 100 Books of the 21st Century. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award.