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In January 2018 she published the novel Jawbone, which tells the story of a teenage girl obsessed with horror stories and creepypastas who is kidnapped by her literature teacher.[4] The book was described as "one of the novels of the season" by the Spanish newspaper El País,[5] which ranked it 12th in its list of the 50 best books of 2018.[6] The novel was also selected as one of the ten finalists for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize in its 2018 edition.[7]
In 2020 she was selected as one of the five finalists for the sixth edition of the Ribera del Duero Short Story Award with her unpublished book of short stories El mundo de arriba y el mundo de abajo,[8] in which she explores through horror themes such as gender violence, abortion, sexuality and religion in a style she defined as "Andean Gothic".[9]
Works
Novels
La desfiguración Silva (2015)
Nefando (2016). Translated in 2023 as Nefando by Sarah Booker.
Mandíbula (2018). Translated in 2022 as Jawbone by Sarah Booker and translated into French as "Mâchoires" by Alba-Marina Escalón for Gallimard.
