Carlos Franz’s work has been translated into 11 languages and received important international awards. Among them, El desierto (2006) won the International Novel Prize La Nación of Buenos Aires (English translation: The Absent Sea, McPherson, 2011). His novel Si te vieras con mis ojos (2015) was awarded the Prize Bienal Vargas Llosa for Best Spanish Language Novel published in the years 2014-2016. Franz has been a resident fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation (2012). He is a member of the Academia Chilena de la lengua and correspondent of the Real Academia Española.