Aleksandra Lun (Gliwice, 1979) left her native Poland at nineteen, financed her studies in Hispanic Philology in Spain by working in a casino, and currently lives in Brussels. Her first novel, The Palimpsests, written in Spanish, was translated into English, French, and Dutch, and received the prestigious PEN/Heim grant from PEN America. Chemistry for Mosquitoes (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024), winner of the 54th Barbastro International Novel Prize, is her second book.