Elena Medel (b. 1985) has published a dozen books of poetry, essays and fiction. The most recent is the novel The Wonders (2020), winner of the Francisco Umbral Book of the Year Award 2020, longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2023 and translated into fifteen languages. She was awarded with the XXVI Loewe Prize for Young Poets and the Leonardo 2021 grant from the BBVA Foundation, shortlisted for The Eccles Institute & Hay Festival Global Writer’s Award 2025, and a writer-in-residence at Cheuse Center, MALBA, Arvo Pärt Centre and Prague UNESCO City of Literature. She is currently based in Madrid.
(Author represented by Maria Cardona Serra at Aevitas Creative.)