(Mexico) This non-fiction writer, essayist and critic is an editorial consultant and columnist for the newspaper
Reforma and the cultural supplement
El Ángel. He won the 2014 Anagrama Essay Prize for
Campo de guerra, an award that he had been shortlisted for in 1992 with
El Centauro en el paisaje (1992). He is also the author of Huesos en el desierto (2002), an investigative work about political power, the drug trade and the murders of women on the Mexico/US border, shortlisted for the 2003 Lettre/Ulysses International Literary Reporting Prize in Germany. His work includes other titles such as
El triángulo imperfecto (2003),
El plan Schreber (2004),
La pandilla cósmica (2005) and
El hombre sin cabeza (2009). He has received a number of awards, including the 2013 Casa Amèrica Catalunya for Freedom of Expression in Ibero-America and the Fernando Benítez National Prize for Cultural Journalism.
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