Rodrigo Fresán

Rodrigo Fresán (born 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a fiction writer and journalist.[1] Since 1999, Fresán has lived and worked in Barcelona, Spain. His books have been translated into many languages.

Rodrigo Fresán (2019)

Mantra, a portrait of Mexico City ca. 2000, reveals the deep influence of science fiction novels (Philip K. Dick in particular), movies (Stanley Kubrick) and TV shows (The Twilight Zone). According to Jonathan Lethem, "he's a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room."

He was a close friend of the late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.

Works
  • Historia Argentina (1991)
  • Vidas de santos (1993)
  • Trabajos Manuales (1994)
  • Esperanto (1995)
  • La velocidad de las cosas (1998)
  • Mantra (2001)
  • Jardines de Kensington (2003). Translated by Natasha Wimmer as Kensington Gardens (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006)
  • El fondo del cielo (2009). Translated by Will Vanderhyden as The Bottom of the Sky (Open Letter, 2018).
  • La parte inventada (2014). Translated by Will Vanderhyden as The Invented Part (Open Letter, 2017).
  • La parte soñada (2017). Translated by Will Vanderhyden as The Dreamed Part (Open Letter, 2019).
  • La parte recordada (2019).

Awards and honors

In 2017, Rodrigo Fresán received the prestigious Prix Roger Caillois.

In 2018, The Invented Part won the Best Translated Book Award.

References
  1. Rubin, Joey (13 April 2018). "The Gluttonous Genre Mutations of Rodrigo Fresán". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
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