Pilar Adón

Pilar Adón studied at Complutense University of Madrid. The recorded working language is Spanish and English. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, poetry and prose. Distinctions recorded are Francisco Umbral Prize for Book of the Year, Castilian Narrative Critic Award, National Novel Prize and Calamo Awards.

• Born — 12 October 1971 • Birthplace — Madrid, Spain • Occupation — * writer • translator • Education — Complutense University of Madrid • Genre — * novels • short stories • poems

Pilar Adón was born in Madrid on 12 October 1971. She graduated in law from the Complutense University of Madrid.

In 2022, she published the novel De bestias y pájaros (Galaxia Gutenberg), awarded the 2023 National Literature Prize for Narrative, the 2022 Spanish Critics' Award, the Francisco Umbral Award for Book of the Year 2022, and the 2022 Cálamo Otra Mirada Award, as well as being a finalist for the 5th Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize. In the novel genre, she is also the author of Las efímeras (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015), considered by critics as one of the ten best novels of that year, and Las hijas de Sara (Alianza Editorial, 2003 / Puzzle (pocket), 2007). In 2021, she published the short novel, Eterno amor (Páginas de Espuma). She is the author of the short story books Las iras (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2025), La vida sumergida (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2017), El mes más cruel (Impedimenta, 2010), for which she was named New Fnac Talent, and Viajes inocentes (Páginas de Espuma), for which she won the 2005 Ojo Crítico Narrative Prize. She has been included in different short story volumes, including among others, Cuento español actual (Cátedra, 2014); Mar de pirañas (Menoscuarto, 2012); Siglo XXI (Menoscuarto, 2010) and Pequeñas Resistencias 5 (Páginas de Espuma, 2010). In 2011, she published the collection of poems La hija del cazador; in 2014, Mente animal; in 2018, Las órdenes, for which she received the Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers' Guild, and Da dolor in 2020. All of them were published by La Bella Varsovia. She has translated the story "Algo del otro mundo" (Impedimenta, 2024), by Iris Murdoch; the book of short stories "Estudios de lo salvaje" by the Australian author Barbara Baynton (Impedimenta, 2018); the essay by John Fowles, "El árbol", as well as the novels by Penelope Fitzgerald, Inocencia (Impedimenta, 2013) and El inicio de la primavera (Impedimenta, 2010); by Joan Lindsay, the historical novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock (Impedimenta, 2010); by Edith Wharton, the book of articles, Francia combatiente (Impedimenta, 2009) and her novel, Santuario (Impedimenta, 2007); the book of short stories by Christina Rossetti, Parecidos razonables; and the novel by Henry James, El mentiroso. She has written for magazines such as Estación Poesía, Letras Libres, Mirlo, Litoral, Ínsula, Barataria, and Revista de Occidente.

Pilar Adón is recorded as having received Francisco Umbral Prize for Book of the Year, Castilian Narrative Critic Award and National Novel Prize. Recognition and collections. Adón received Francisco Umbral Prize for Book of the Year, Castilian Narrative Critic Award, National Novel Prize and Calamo Awards.