Samanta Schweblin Signed Firsts: A Reference

Samanta Schweblin (born 1978) is the Argentine novelist and short story writer whose compact, hallucinatory fiction has made her one of the most translated Latin American writers of her generation. Her novella Fever Dream (2017) — a nightmarish interrogation between a dying woman and a child in rural Argentina — was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and established her reputation in English. Her story collections (Mouthful of Birds, 2019) and her surveillance novella Little Eyes (2020) extend her exploration of technology, parenthood, and environmental contamination.

Key Titles and Values

Fever Dream (2017 English)

• Signed English first (Riverhead, 2017, translated by Megan McDowell): $30–$75
• Unsigned: $8–$15

Mouthful of Birds (2019)

• Signed English first (Riverhead, 2019): $25–$50
• Unsigned: $5–$12

Little Eyes (2020)

• Signed English first (Riverhead, 2020): $20–$45
• Unsigned: $5–$10

Collecting Significance

Schweblin is a writer whose reputation continues to climb. The Megan McDowell translations are themselves valued — McDowell has become the essential translator of contemporary Latin American fiction, and her name on a spine carries its own collecting weight.