Horacio Castellanos Moya, El Salvador writer born in 1957, is the author of thirteen novels and several books of stories and essays. His first novel, La diáspora (1989), won the National Prize awarded by the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador. His short novel El asco. Thomas Bernhard en San Salvador (1997) created controversy that resulted in threats that forced him to leave his country. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. He has been the editor of newspapers, magazines and press agencies, mainly in Mexico City, where he lived for thirteen years; he has also resided in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Canada and Spain. He was writer-in-residence for two years on a Frankfurt International Book Fair programme and spent six months in Japan thanks to a scholarship granted by the University of Tokyo and the Japan Foundation. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Iowa. The Chilean government awarded him the 2014 Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Prize for Fiction for his body of work. His most recent books are Moronga (2018), Envejece un perro tras los cristales (2019), Roque Dalton: correspondencia clandestina y otros ensayos (2021) and El hombre amansado (2022).