Javier Payeras

Javier Antonio Payeras (b. Guatemala City, 6 February 1974) is a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and essayist.

Biography

Central American writer (Guatemala 1974).[1] He is one of the writers who emerged after the Guatemalan Civil War as part of the so-called postwar generation. From 1998, he joined an emerging movement called Casa Bizarra, a project of young artists from the post-conflict generation. A tireless promoter of culture, he was coordinator of the Festival Octubreazul in 2000, director of the Contemporary Art Foundation Colloquia, and curator of Project Crea.

Published works
  • Fondo para un disco de John Zorn (poetry, 2013)
  • Soledadbrother (stage adaptation by Luis Carlos Pineda and Josué Sotomayor) Centro Cultural de Spain in Guatemala and Catafixia Editorial (2013
  • Imágenes para un View-Master (fiction, 2003, 2010)
  • Soledadbrother (poetry, 2003, 2010)
  • Ruido de Fondo (fiction, 2003, 2006)
  • Afuera (fiction, 2006)
  • Las palabras que luego abandonamos (poetry, 2007)
  • Lecturas menores (reviews and literary essays, 2008)
  • Dos de sal Gema / Relatos autodidactas (poetry and narrative, 2008)
  • Días Amarillos (novel, 2009)
  • Post-its de luz sucia (poetry, 2009)
  • La resignación y la asfixia (poetry, 2011)
  • (...) y otros relatos breves (short stories, 2000, 2012)
  • limbo (fiction, 2011)
  • Déjate caer (poetry, 2012)
  • Raktas (fiction, 2000, 2013)

References
  1. Vania Isabel Vargas Morales: Guatemala revisitada: Un Análisis sociológico de la novela ruido de fondo de Javier Payeras – 1.2.1 Biografía (in Spanish), November 2009, p. 59.


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