Simón López-Trujillo is a Chilean writer and translator. He has published the novel El vasto territorio (2021), the poetry chapbook Maestranza (2018), and the poem-object Intemperie (2017). He is the co-translator, alongside Rodrigo Olavarría, of Un bestiario (2021) by Lily Hoang, and of Poemas contra la policía vol. 1 (2021), an anthology of poems against police brutality, curated and translated by the Frank Ocean Collective of Writing and Translation. He has been awarded the Roberto Bolaño Award (2018), and has received grants and fellowships from the Chilean Ministry of Arts & Culture (2018, 2021), the Pablo Neruda Foundation (2018), and MacDowell (2022).
At MacDowell, he completed the draft of Jimmy Button, his second novel, which rewrites the story of Jemmy Button, a young Fuegian kidnapped by Robert FitzRoy in 1830. Conceived as a coming-of-age story about a young Indigenous artist, the book reflects upon subjects such as postcolonialism, extra-activism, and the current situation of Yahgan people in Chile.
