Elena Medel is a Spanish novelist, essayist and poet. She was the first woman ever to win the prestigious Francisco Umbral Prize for her debut novel, The Wonders, which was also longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2023 and has been translated into fifteen languages.
She is the recipient of the XXVI Loewe Prize for Young Poets and the Leonardo 2021 grant from the BBVA Foundation, and writer-in-residence at Cheuse Center, MALBA and Arvo Pärt Centre.