Daniel Saldaña París

Author | Spanish

Daniel Saldaña París is the author of three novels—Among Strange Victims, Ramifications, and The Dance and the Fire—and a collection of personal essays, Planes Flying Over a Monster, forthcoming in English in 2024. His work has been translated into several languages, and he has been included in Bogota39, a list of the Best Latin American Writers Under 40. The recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Banff Center for the Arts, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Art Omi, and MacDowell, he has been awarded the Eccles Center & Hay Festival Writers Award in the U.K., and his latest novel was a finalist for the Herralde Prize in Spain. He was a 2022-2023 fellow at the NYPL’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and has contributed to publications such as the Guardian, BOMB, Guernica, Aperture, Music & Literature, LitHub, Publisher’s Weekly, and KCRW’s UnFictional, among many others. Photo credit: Ezequiel Zaidenwerg.