Patricio Pron is the author of six volumes of short prose, among them El mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan (The World Without People Who Ruin It and Make It Ugly, 2010), La vida interior de las plantas de interior (The Inner Life of Indoor Plants, 2013), Lo que está y no se usa nos fulminará (What Lies Unused Will Vanquish Us, 2018) and Trayéndolo todo de regreso a casa (Bringing it All Back Home, 2021). He has also written seven novels, including El comienzo de la primavera (The Beginning of Spring, 2008), El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia (My Fathers’ Ghost is Climbing in the Rain, 2011), Nosotros caminamos en sueños (We Walk in Dreams, 2014), No derrames tus lágrimas por nadie que viva en estas calles (Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets, 2016) and Mañana tendremos otros nombres (Tomorrow We Will Have Other Names, 2019). His essays are found in El libro tachado: prácticas de la negación y del silencio en la crisis de la literatura (The Strikethrough Book: Negation and Silencing Practices in the Crisis of Literature, 2014) and No, no pienses en un conejo blanco: literatura, dinero, tiempo, influencia, falsificación, crítica, futuro (No, Don’t Imagine a White Rabbit: Literature, Money, Time, Influence, Forgery, Criticism, Future, 2022).
He has won several national and international awards, including the Juan Rulfo Short Story Prize, the Cálamo Prize and the Alfaguara Prize. His work has appeared regularly in various anthologies, and has been translated into twelve languages including German, English, French, Norwegian, Dutch, Chinese, Italian and Portuguese. In 2010, he was chosen among the twenty-two best Spanish-language writers of his generation by the British magazine Granta. More recently he was Director’s Guest of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation residency and Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne’s Department of Literature.
Pron holds a PhD in Romanesque Philology from the Georg-August University of Göttingen in Germany. He lives in Madrid with his wife and two cats. His latest book is the dream diary Traumbuch (2022).
by David Saccone-Braslow
Patricio Pron was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1975. His father was a political journalist and his mother worked as an archivist. As a child he spent summers with his paternal grandparents who immigrated to Argentina from Turin, Italy. His maternal family was originally from Bern, Switzerland. By seventeen, Pron was writing for La Capital, Argentina’s oldest Spanish-Language newspaper.