Patricio Pron (born December 9, 1975) is an Argentine literary writer and critic translated into a dozen languages including English, German, French and Italian. Granta magazine selected him in 2010 as one of the 22 best young writers in Spanish of his generation. He won the twenty-second Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2019 for his work Mañana tendremos otros nombres among other prizes.[1]
He began writing in the press in 1992.[3] Between 2000 and 2001 he toured Europe, the Balkans, North Africa and Turkey as a correspondent for the Rosario newspaper La Capital. He currently writes for El País cultural supplement "Babelia" and for the Spanish-Mexican magazine Letras Libres, among other publications.
Between 2002 and 2007, Pron worked as an assistant at the University of Göttingen, where he prepared his doctoral work on the narrative procedures in Copi's work. He moved to Madrid, where he currently lives.
He has won several national and international awards, including the Juan Rulfo Short Story Prize, the Cálamo Extraordinary Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the Alfaguara Prize, etc. Pron has also received the Antorchas Grant and the BBVA Foundation Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, as well as being a "Fellow Guest" of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. In 2010, Granta magazine selected him as one of the 22 best young writers in Spanish.
Pron is renowned for his innovative literary style and his ability to tackle complex subjects with depth and originality. His works have been published by leading national and international publishers and literary magazines. As a literary critic, he stands out for his ability to relate contemporary literature, culture and society and for his questioning gaze.
Since September 2024 he is a fellow at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library.
Works
Short stories
Hombres infames, Bajo la Luna Nueva, 1999
El vuelo magnífico de la noche, Colihue, Buenos Aires, 2001
El mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan, Mondadori, Barcelona, 2010
Trayéndolo todo de regreso a casa. Relatos 1990-2010, El Cuervo, La Paz, 2011
La vida interior de las plantas de interior, Mondadori, 2013
