Pilar Adón was born in Madrid in 1971 and is the author of four novels, including The Mayflies (forthcoming from Open Letter), several short story collection, and four volumes of poetry. She received the Ojo Critico Prize for Viajes inocentes, and won the Premio Francisco Umbral al Libro del Año, Premio Cálamo, and the Premio de la Critica for Of Beasts and Fowls.

Katie Whittemore translates from the Spanish. Full-length translations include works by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Durán, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, and Katixa Agirre. Forthcoming translations include novels by Jon Bilbao, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Almudena Sánchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Adón. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 to translate Moreno's In Case We Lose Power, and was a finalist for the Spain-USA Prize for her translation of Katixa Agirre's Mothers Don't.

"Pilar Adón's writing ... [is] literature in its purest form, and the novel Of Beasts and Fowls only confirms it."--José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural

"A novel like Of Beasts and Fowls is a book that everyone who loves literature should read."--Carlos Pardo, Babelia

"Fascination and unease are the feelings that dominate the reader of this splendid novel in which the writer plunges us back into her particular universe."--Juan Marqués, Reading

"Those who approach Pilar Adón's writing for the first time will find themselves immersed in a mysterious and suffocating reality. [In Of Beasts and Fowls] everything is marked from the very beginning with the most overwhelming sense of the unusual."--Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural

"Adón has built a unique literary world with devices, spaces, and characters, as well as with her own rhetoric and themes and motifs, which set her apart from the rest of contemporary authors."--Fernando Valls, InfoLibre

"Pilar Adón has established herself as one of the most personal and unique voices in the current scene of Spanish literature."--Elena Hevia

Publisher: Open Letter

Pub date: 2024-11-05

Length: 220 pages