Sara Mesa’s Novels of Ambiguous, Twisted Power [Katie Whittemore en LITHUB]

Sara Mesa is the author of nine works of fiction, including Scar (winner of Spain’s Ojo Crítico Prize and published in English by Dalkey Archive Press, translated by Adriana Nodal-Tarafa), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize, out now from Open Letter Books, translated by Katie Whittemore), Cara de Pan and Mala letra (both forthcoming from Open Letter Books). Mesa has been hailed by the likes of Rafael Chirbes, Enrique Vila-Matas, Marta Sanz, and Jorge Herralde as one of the most interesting and personal voices writing in Spain today.