Founding director of the magazine Etiqueta Negra. He is the author of the book of profiles Elogios Criminales and the book of literary reports Mariposas y murciélagos, an anthology of his stories for El Comercio newspaper. His profile Through the eyes of a blind mayor was published in the issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review magazine that, with the editorial advice of Etiqueta Negra, won a National Magazine Award in the United States. He has been a speaker at conferences on narrative journalism run by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard and Yale. He has lectured on the Master’s programme in Journalism at the University of Barcelona-Columbia University and on the Publishing Master’s at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has also given numerous workshops to editors and reporters from newspapers and magazines in Latin America. His texts have appeared in newspapers such as El País, La Nación, Reforma, Letras Libres, Gatopardo, SoHo, Vogue en español, Esquire Latinoamérica, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. He is currently a columnist for Poder magazine.
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