Fernanda Trías (Uruguay, 1976) is a writer and translator based in Buenos Aires. Her novel, La azotea (Ediciones Trilce, 2001) was selected as one of the books of the year by El País Cultural and received third prize in the Concurso Nacional de Literatura. In 2002 she published Cuaderno para un solo ojo as part of the collection De los flexes terpines. She has been included in various anthologies of new Latin American writing in Uruguay, Peru, Spain and Germany and in 2004 received a grant from Unesco-Ashberg which enabled her to live in France for five years. A re-edited version of La azotea (Puntocero) was published in 2010 in Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela.