Patricio Pron

Patricio Pron (born December 9, 1975) is an Argentine writer and literary 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.

Life and career Pron was born in Rosario, Argentina. He holds a degree in Social Communication from the National University of Rosario and a PhD in Romanesque Philology from the University of Göttingen in Germany.

He began writing in the press in 1992. 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, among others. Pron has also received the Antorchas Grant and the BBVA Foundation Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, as well as being a "Director's Guest" of both Civitella Ranieri and Santa Maddalena foundations. In 2010, Granta magazine selected him as named him one of the twenty-two best Spanish-language writers of his generation.

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 has been 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 Lo que está y no se usa nos fulminará, Literatura Random House, Barcelona, 2018

Novels

Formas de morir, Rosario: Universidad Nacional de Rosario Editora, 1998 Nadadores muertos, Editorial Municipal de Rosario, 2001 Una puta mierda, Buenos Aires: El cuenco de plata, 2007 El comienzo de la primavera, Barcelona: Mondadori, 2008 El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia, Barcelona: Mondadori, 2011 English translation: My Father's Ghost is Climbing in the Rain, Knopf, 2013 Nosotros caminamos en sueños, Barcelona: Literatura Random House, 2014 No derrames tus lágrimas por nadie que viva en estas calles, Barcelona: Literatura Random House, 2016 Mañana tendremos otros nombres, Barcelona: Alfaguara, 2019 La naturaleza secreta de las cosas de este mundo, Editorial Anagrama, 2023 En todo hay una grieta y por ella entra la luz, Anagrama, 2026

Others

Zerfurchtes Land. Neue Erzählungen aus Argentinien (Tierra devastada. Nuevos relatos desde Argentina), organizer, with Burkhard Pohl El libro tachado. Prácticas de la negación y el silencio en la crisis de la literatura, Turner, Madrid, 2014 Traumbuch, Delirio, Salamanca, 2022 No, no pienses en un conejo blanco: Literatura, dinero, tiempo, falsificación, crítica, futuro, CSIC, 2022 Pron vs. Prompt. ¿Puede la inteligencia artificial competir ya con un escritor?, Delirio, 2025