Pilar Quintana

She is best known for her novels La Perra and Coleccionistas de polvos raros. Quintana has received multiple awards for her writings. In 2007, she was chosen by Hay Festival as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the most promising young writers in Latin America. In 2010, she won the Premio de Novela La Mar de Letras in Spain for Coleccionistas de polvos raros. Her novel La Perra (translated from Spanish to English by Lisa Dillman and published by World Editions under the title The Bitch) was translated into 16 languages. It was shortlisted for the Colombian Premio Nacional de Novela in 2018 and the National Book Award for Translated Literature in the US in October 2020, and it was announced the winner of the English Pen Award and the Premio de Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana in 2018. Her screenplay Lavaperros, written with Antonio García Ángel, has won two grants from Fondo para el Desarrollo Cinematográfico, Proimágenes, and the Premio Manuel Barba of Huelva's Press Association for best script in 2020. In 2021, her novel Los abismos won the Premio Alfaguara de Novela and was translated into several languages. In September 2023, the English translation, Abyss, translated by Lisa Dillman, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Pilar Quintana studied at Pontifical Xavierian University, University of Iowa and Hong Kong Baptist University. The recorded working language is Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are literary genre. Works named in the authority record are The abysses, La perra and Caperucita se come al lobo. Distinctions recorded are Alfaguara Prize.

• Name — Pilar Quintana • Born — 1972 • Birthplace — Cali, Colombia • Language — Spanish • Education — Javeriana University

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