Nona Fernández
Nona Fernández is an actress and writer. She has developed her artistic career around the historical and personal memory of the years marked by the dictatorship. Her first book, El Cielo (2000), is a collection of short stories, some of which have previously won awards and been published in anthologies. She wrote her first novel, Mapocho (2002), in Barcelona, with her eyes set on her native Chile. She subsequently published Av. 10 de Julio Huamachuco (2007), Fuenzalida (2012), Space Invaders (2013), finalist for the National Book Award, Chilean Electric (Minúscula, 2015), winner of the Best Published Works award from the National Book Council, and La dimensión desconocida (Literatura Random House, 2016), winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize awarded by the Guadalajara Book Fair and finalist for the National Book Award, and her recent works Voyager (2019), Preguntas frecuentes (2021) and ¿Cómo recordar la sed? (2023).
She is also the author of various theatrical works such as El taller (2012) and Liceo de niñas (2016), premiered at the Theater Basel, Switzerland, and the stage versions of Space Invaders (2021) and Voyager (2024) produced and premiered by La pieza Oscura, the company she leads together with Marcelo Leonart.
Update: 29 August 2024