(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 attach\u00e9 at the Mexican Embassy in Berlin in the 1980s. He has written for The New York Times, Letras Libres, El Pa\u00eds 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 \u2018El testigo\u2019 and is the author of a vast oeuvre that includes the novels \u2018El disparo de arg\u00f3n\u2019, \u2018Arrecife’, \u2018La tierra de la gran promesa’, the short story collection \u2018Los culpables\u2019, and a collection of journalistic articles \u2018\u00bfHay vida en la Tierra?\u2019 His latest books are \u2018La figura del mundo\u2019 (Random House, 2023) and \u2018No soy un robot\u2019 (Anagrama, 2024).<\/p>\n
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