Hernan Diaz

Hernan Diaz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1973. His family immigrated to Sweden in 1975 following a military coup in Argentina before returning to Argentina in 1983. Diaz graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and then pursued a master’s degree at King’s College in London. He received a PhD from New York University in 1999 with a dissertation titled “Figures of confinement: Literature and claustrophilia.” In 2012, he published a nonfiction book of literary analysis about the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges titled, Borges, Between History and Eternity. Diaz published his first novel, In the Distance, in 2017, and the book was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His second novel, Trust, was published in 2022 and won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in conjunction with Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Demon Copperhead. Diaz now lives in New York City.