Nicolás Bernales

Nicolás Bernales was born in Santiago de Chile in 1975 and lives there today. He completed studies in audiovisual communications and advertising. He is the author of the book of short stories La velocidad del agua (Ojo Literario, 2017), for which he received a creative fellowship from Chile’s Fondo Nacional de Fomento del Libro y la Lectura, and of the novel Geografía de un exilio (Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, 2023 and Zuramérica, Santiago, 2023). He also works as a literary columnist for various outlets, such as El Mostrador, El Mercurio, and the Central American magazine Carátula.