Hernán Díaz
Hernán Díaz in May 2022
Born	1973 (age 51–52)
Occupation	Novelist
Education	University of Buenos Aires (Lic) King's College London (MA) New York University (PhD)
Period	2017–present
Notable works	In the Distance (2017) Trust (2022)
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2023)

Hernán Díaz (Spanish:[eɾˈnanˈdi.as]; born 1973) is an Argentine-American writer.^[1] His 2023 novel,Trust, was awarded thePulitzer Prize for Fiction. His 2017 novelIn the Distance was a finalist for the same Pulitzer Prize,^[2] as well as thePEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.^[3] He also received aWhiting Award.^[4]

Díaz was born inBuenos Aires,Argentina. When he was two, his family moved toSweden after the military coup.^[5] His family returned to Argentina after democracy was restored in 1983. Díaz was interested in writing at an early age, and even "pretended" to write, showing his parents his "stories."^[6] After obtaining aLicenciate degree in Literature (Licenciatura en Letras) in theUniversity of Buenos Aires, Díaz moved to London to study an MA degree atKing's College.^[7]

Díaz moved to New York in 1999 for additional studies. He received his PhD fromNew York University.

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.^[8]

Díaz is the recipient of the John Updike award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, given to “a writer whose contributions to American literature have demonstrated consistent excellence." He has received fellowships from theNew York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, theRockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center,MacDowell,Yaddo, and the Ingmar Bergman Estate.^[9]

Díaz has published two novels, which have been published in more than 37 languages.^[9] His essays and short stories have been published inThe Paris Review,Granta,Playboy,The Yale Review, andMcSweeney's.

Borges, Between History and Eternity was published byContinuum on August 2, 2012. The book considers "key aspects of Borges's work — the reciprocal determinations of politics, philosophy and literature; the simultaneously confining and emancipating nature of language; and the incipient program for a literature of the Americas."^[10]

In the Distance was published on October 10, 2017 byCoffee House Press.Publishers Weekly,^[11]Feminist Press,^[12]PANK,^[13] andThe Paris Review^[14] named it one of the top books of 2017, andLiterary Hub named it one of "The 20 Best Novels of the Decade".^[15]

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022, and in 2019, he won aWhiting Award, which is provided "based on the criteria of early-career achievement and the promise of superior literary work to come."^[4]

Trust was published byRiverhead Books on May 3, 2022. It received the 2022Kirkus Prize^[16] and 2023Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was longlisted for the2022 Booker Prize.^[17] It was also named one of the "10 Best Books of 2022" byThe Washington Post^[18] andThe New York Times,^[19] and it was named one of the New York Times’s Best 100 Books of the 21st Century.

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In the Distance received the following accolades:

• First Novelist Award (2018)^[20]
• New American Voices Award (2018)^[21]
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist (2018)^[3]
• Prix Page America Award (2018)^[22]
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (2018)^[2]
• William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction (2018)^[23]

Trust received the following accolade:

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2023)^[24]

• In the Distance (2017),ISBN 9781566894883^[25]
• Trust (2022),ISBN 9780593420317^[26][27][28]

• Borges, Between History and Eternity (2012),ISBN 9781441197795

• "The Wife of the Lion" (2018) inThe Kenyon Review
• "1,111 Emblems" (2018) inPlayboy
• "'I Am Going to Speak to You about Anxiety'" (2018) inGranta
• "The Stay" (2018) inThe Paris Review
• "The World of Interiors" (2022) inMcSweeney's Quarterly Concern
• "The Generation" (2022) inThe Atlantic
• "Triptych" (2023) inHarper's Magazine

• "On Making Oneself Less Unreadable" (2017) inThe Paris Review
• "If I Had a Sense of Beauty" (2017) inThe Paris Review
• "Monument" (2017) onKadist
• "OnJoanna Walsh'sWorlds from the Word's End" (2017) onPublishers Weekly
• "Who Gets to Be a Mad Scientist?" (2018) inThe Paris Review
• "OnFrankenstein, A Monster of a Book" (2018) inThe Paris Review
• "We Stigmatize Accents, But Language Belongs To Everyone" (2018) onPBS NewsHour
• "A Year In Reading" (2018) onThe Millions
• "Tove Jansson's 'The Island'" (2019) inThe Paris Review (translation)
• "Tove Jansson's 'Once, At A Park'" (2019) inThe Paris Review (translation)
• "A Reading List On Loneliness" (2020) inElectric Literature
• "The Heart of Fiction" (2021) inThe Yale Review
• "Contemporary Authors On Their Favorite New York City Novels" (2022) inThe New York Times
• "Let Me Tell You a True Story" (2023) onBookPage
• "Read Your Way Through New York City: On Brooklyn Heights" (2025) inThe New York Times

• Living people
• Columbia University faculty
• New York University alumni
• University of Buenos Aires alumni
• Kirkus Prize winners
• 1973 births
• Argentine emigrants to the United States
• 21st-century American novelists
• 21st-century Argentine novelists
• American male novelists
• Argentine male novelists
• Alumni of King's College London
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners

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