Pilar Adón (Madrid, 1971) is the author of De bestias y aves (2022), winner of the National Narrative Prize (Premio Nacional de Narrativa), the Critics’ Award (Premio de la Crítica), the Francisco Umbral Prize for Book of the Year, and the Cálamo Prize (Otra Mirada category). She has also published the critically acclaimed Las efímeras (2015), named one of the ten best novels of the year, and Las hijas de Sara (2003).
She is the author of four short story collections —Las iras, La vida sumergida, El mes más cruel, and Viajes inocentes, the latter awarded the prestigious Ojo Crítico Prize from Spain’s national radio (RNE)— as well as the illustrated novella Eterno amor. Her collected poetry has been published under the title Las huidas. 1998–2024, alongside the poetry collections Da dolor (2020), Las órdenes (2018, awarded Book of the Year by the Madrid Booksellers’ Association), Mente animal (2014), and La hija del cazador (2011).
Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, and her fiction and poetry have been featured in literary magazines and cultural supplements such as Babelia (El País) and ABC Cultural. Her work has been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Albanian, among other languages.
Pilar Adón currently works as a publisher at Impedimenta and as a literary translator of fiction and nonfiction, including works by John Fowles, Penelope Fitzgerald, Iris Murdoch, Edith Wharton and Henry James.