Juan Villoro

(Mexico City, 1956) Narrator, essayist, journalist and playwright, currently one of the most outstanding authors in Latin American literature. The son of the philosopher Luis Villoro studied sociology at the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico, attended Monterroso’s literary workshop, and was a cultural attaché at the Mexican Embassy in Berlin in the 1980s. He has written for The New York Times, Letras Libres, El País and El Mercurio and edited the cultural supplement La Jornada Semanal. He has been a professor of literature at his alma mater and at the universities of Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Pompeu Fabra. He won the Herralde Prize in 2004 for ‘El testigo’ and is the author of a vast oeuvre that includes the novels ‘El disparo de argón’, ‘Arrecife’, ‘La tierra de la gran promesa’, the short story collection ‘Los culpables’, and a collection of journalistic articles ‘¿Hay vida en la Tierra?’ His latest books are ‘La figura del mundo’ (Random House, 2023) and ‘No soy un robot’ (Anagrama, 2024).