Samanta Schweblin

Winner, 2022 National Book Awards

Samanta Schweblin is the author of the novel Fever Dream, a finalist for the International Booker Prize, and the story collection A Mouthful of Birds, longlisted for the same prize.
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Seven Empty Houses

Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin
ISBN 9780525541394 Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Translated from the Spanish . The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin’s tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child’s first encounter with a dark choice or the fallibility of parents. More about this book >

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Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell accept 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Seven Empty Houses


Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell at the 2022 National Book Awards Finalist Reading

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Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin is the author of the novel Fever Dream, a finalist for the International Booker Prize, and the story collection A Mouthful of Birds, longlisted for the same prize. Chosen by Granta as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35, she has won numerous prestigious awards around the world. Her books have been translated into 25 languages, and her work has appeared in English in The New Yorker and Harper’s. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin lives in Berlin.

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