Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is a multi-award-winning Mexican author of novels and short story collections.
Her work's been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for theatre and film.
In 2007, she was named as one of the Bogota 39,
a list of the most promising young Latin American writers under the age of 39,
which was announced at the Hay Festival in Bogota.
In 2023, her novel Stillborn was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Her latest collection of short stories is The Accidentals,
eight stories where each character finds their ordinary lives disrupted by an unexpected event and they're pushed into the unknown.
Guadalupe Natal, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you.
It's lovely to have you here.
We first met at Hay Festival and had a wonderful conversation there about your work and didn't really get a chance to find out more about you and particularly your childhood
because that was split between Mexico City and the south of France.
Tell us a little bit more.
Yes, actually I'm born in Mexico City during the 70s and I grew up in a neighbourhood.
who was full of exiles, people from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay mostly,
who had to vlog the dictatorships there and ended up in Mexico.
And so I grew up surrounded by children who were speaking different Spanish dialects and with different,
you know, attitudes and things like that.