Karla Suárez nació en La Habana en 1969. Luego de su publicar Espuma (1999) su primer libro de cuentos, recibió el premio de Lengua de Trapo por su novela Silencios que fue traducida a varios idiomas. Luego de publicar su segunda colección de cuentos, Carroza para actores, editó La viajera (2005), su segunda novela y dos años más tarde fue seleccionada por el Hay Festival como parte del Bogotá39 que reúne a los escritores más prometedores de América Latina menores de 40 años de edad. Habana años cero (2011) es su tercera novela. En France obtuvo el premio Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde y el Gran Premio al Libro Insular. Su novela más reciente es El hijo del héroe (2017). Karla Suárez vive en Lisboa y en 2019 recibió el prestigioso Premio Iberoamericano Julio Cortázar.

Karla Suárez Karla Suárez was born in Havana in 1969. Since her childhood, she has been passionate about mathematics, writing stories, and music. She studied classical guitar and has a degree in electronic engineering, a profession she continues to develop. Suárez is the author of five collections of short stories and four novels. Her novels received many awards, such as the Lengua de Trapo Prize for her 1999 debut novel Silencios (Silences ); and the Prix Carbet of the Caribbean and Tout-Monde and the Insular Book Prize, both in France, in 2012. Many of her stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines published in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Several of her stories have been adapted for television and theatre. Suárez has received several creative grants, including the one awarded by the National Book Center of France (CNL). In 2007, she was selected by the Hay Festival and Bogota World Book Capital, as one of 39 representative young writers of Latin America. She lives in Lisbon, where she coordinates the Reading Club of the Cervantes Institute and works as a writing teacher at the Writers' School in Madrid.