Hernan Diaz He published his second fiction novel Fortune in 2022 and the following year he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with it. She is now working with HBO on the production of a miniseries based on the book.
A few months ago it was revealed that the protagonist of the strip would be the British actress Kate Winslet and now it was announced that the director will be in charge of the director Todd Haynes. Additionally, the script will be co-written by American screenwriter Jonathan Raymond. Executive production will be carried out by all of them – Díaz, Winslet, Haynes and Raymond – as well as Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler.
Todd Haynes is considered one of the outstanding representatives of the New Queer Cinema emerged in the United States in the 1990s. It has received numerous awards and nominations at major festivals around the world and some of its most notable feature films are poison, carol and Far from the sky.
in his book Fortune, Díaz makes a fiction about the gears that move Wall Street. The story revolves around money and is set in the 1920s. The protagonists are a tycoon named Andrew Bevel, who multiplies his family’s inheritance by betting on financial capital, and his wife Mildred Bevel.
But the novel surprises, in addition to its story and narrative, because of its form. Fortune It is a book that is made up of four different books that emulate different genres: a 19th century novel, an unfinished biography, a memoir and an intimate diary.
In short, in the same novel there are four versions of the same story, and they are all written by different fictional authors. This combination puts the reader in an active place, in search of the truth. The challenge proposed by the author is to identify reality and fiction, within fiction.
Hernan Diaz He is Argentine, but he has lived in New York for 25 years. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1973 and during the military dictatorship he emigrated with his family to Sweden. He then returned and, before settling in the United States and earning a doctorate in Philosophy at New York University, he studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires.
Today Díaz is 51 years old and has two published novels: In the distance, edited in 2017; and Trust (in Spanish Fortune), today translated into more than 30 languages. He often says that he is “in love” with the English language. In Argentina, Fortune It was published by Anagrama and was one of the best-selling books in the last year.
