Mercedes Halfon

Mercedes Halfon is an award-winning poet, novelist, film director, cultural journalist, and professor at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Among other honors, she is the recipient of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation Fellowship, Bogotá’s Goethe Institut Fellowship, Barcelona’s Montserrat Roig Writing Fellowship, Madrid’s Centre of Contemporary Creation Fellowship, and multiple grants from Argentina’s Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Outsider Everywhere, Halfon’s literary biography of Witold Gombrowicz, is published in English by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Punctured Diary (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in August 2027), her first work of fiction available in English, is published by Bellevue Literary Press. She lives in Buenos Aires.