Author

Books by Hernan Diaz

Hernan Diaz was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Stockholm before moving to the United States, where he has worked as a professor and writer. His debut novel In the Distance was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2018. Trust, his second novel, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2023 and the Booker Prize. He has taught at Columbia University and is known for fiction that engages with American history and the formal possibilities of the novel. Diaz brings a translator's sensitivity to language and a literary scholar's awareness of genre conventions to his fiction.