Pearl Suez. She was born in Córdoba (Argentina), graduated in Modern Letters, she founded and directed the Center for Dissemination and Research of Children's and Youth Literature of the magazine Piedra libre. Author with a long series of published titles, including: Letargo (2000), finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the Entre Ríos trilogy, Grinzane Cavour Novel Prize (Turin and Montevideo, 2008) and the first Municipal Novel Prize of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires with Red Smoke (2012), also National Novel Award of Argentina. Her works have been translated into English, Italian, Serbian and French. Her novel El país del diablo, published by Edhasa in 2017, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award in 2015 and in 2020 she won the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Award.