Xita Rubert *22 gs COM
Writer, Educator
Novelist
Xita Rubert is a Spanish novelist and Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at Princeton. In 2024, she was the recipient of the Premio Herralde, the most prestigious prize for the novel in the Spanish language. Her books have been published by Anagrama in Spain and translated into several languages, with an English edition of “The Key Biscayne Affair” forthcoming from Ecco/Harper Collins in 2026. Rubert is based in New York and is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation, which focuses on Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, Argentinian short story writer Silvina Ocampo and British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington. She has taught creative writing and 20th-century literature, with a special interest in medicine/literature overlaps.