Fernanda Trías

Fernanda Trías is a Uruguayan author and translator.
Her novels include ‘’La Azotea’’, ‘’La ciudad invencible’’, and ‘’Mugre rosa’’, ‘’El monte de las furias’’ as well as the short story collection ‘’No soñarás Flores’’ and the chapbook ‘’El regreso’’.
Her work has also been included in anthologies in Germany, Colombia, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, the US, and the UK, including 20/40 and Palabras Errantes. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Greek, Arabic, Polish, among others. La azotea was selected as one of the best books of the year by El País Cultural and was awarded the third prize of the National Uruguayan Literature in 2002. In 2006, she received the BankBoston Foundation Prize for National Culture. She was a friend and student of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero and participated in the creation of De los flexes terpines, a collection directed by Levrero that published fifteen titles, almost all by new writers. In the fifth volume of that collection, Trías published her first novella, Cuaderno para solo un ojo.