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"Never Did the Fire will be a first-rate literary experience for any reader." —El País

"One of the greatest merits of Diamela Eltit’s work is the way she narrates failure from the interior of her language." —Letras Libres

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Praise for Diamela Eltit

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985
• Prize José Nuez Martín, 1995 for Los vigilantes
• Nominated to Altazor Award 2001 in the category of literary essay with Emergencias. Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política
• Prize Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso 2010
• Nominated to Altazor Award 2011 with the novel with Impuesto a la carne
• Finalist in the Prize Rómulo Gallegos 2011 with Impuesto a la carne
• Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2012
• Altazor Award 2014 in the fiction category for Fuerzas especiales
• Simón Bolívar Professor at University of Cambridge (2014)
• National Prize for Literature (Chile), 2018

"Her novels are radical projects that dispute the public space, the national interpretation and the role of genres under authoritarian conditions. (...) Her writing has an avant-gardist’s freedom of forms, a political reaffirmation of margins, and an exploratory and rebellious edge." Julio Ortega, BOMB magazine

‘One of the most brilliant literary voices in the region (…). Eltit writes furiously.’BBC Mundo

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