Chimal comes as close as we will get to the secret palpitation of our present.
Cristina Rivera Garza
Alberto Chimal is a master of the uncanny.
Mariana Enríquez
Alberto Chimal (Toluca, México, 1970) is a writer and creative writing teacher. He won the 2002 National Short Story Book Award for Estos son los días (These Are the Days) and the 2014 Colima Prize for a published work of fiction for Manda fuego (Let Fire Rain Down); his 2012 novel La torre y el jardín (The Tower and the Garden) was shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos International Award, one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language; and his dystopian novel La noche en la zona M (Night in the M Zone) won the International Award for a young adult novel from Banco del Libro in 2021. He also was awarded the FILEM Prize, a career-spanning recognition, in 2024. His latest project in Spanish is Las máquinas enfermas (The Sick Machines), a collection of short stories published in Spain by Páginas de Espuma. He is also an author of comics, movie scripts and essays, and has a large online following as a disseminator of creative writing and literature.
[English text by D. P. Snyder]
Alberto Chimal in an award-winning anthology!
Why Didn’t You Just Leave, an anthology edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin, won recently the Shirley Jackson award! Alberto Chimal is one of its featured authors, with his short story «The World Ended There», written especially for that project and translated into English by Rios.