In 2018, American author Hernan Diaz’s debut novel In the Distance was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Five years later in 2023, he won the prize for his novel Trust. The Pulitzer Prize website describes it as a riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth, and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.
Trust is also the winner of the 2022 Kirkus Prize, was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and was listed as one of The New Yorker’s 12 Essential Reads of the Year. One of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2022, Trust (starring Oscar-winner Kate Winslet) is currently being developed as a limited series for HBO.
At first glance, one might feel that such remarkable success has come to him very early in his writing career but Diaz points out that he has been writing all his life because he “loves language and beautiful…