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Vinicius Jatobá

Vinicius Jatobá was selected by Granta as one of the Best of Young Brazilian Novelists in 2012. Since then he has had stories published in English, French, Spanish and German. He is also a prize-winning dramatist. In 2015 he’ll be in Paris for a year as the recipient of the…

Diego Trelles Paz

Diego Trelles Paz (Lima, Peru, 1977) is the author of Hudson el redentor (Peru, 2001), El círculo de los escritores asesinos (2005), and Bioy (2012), which received the Francisco Casavella Prize and was a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 2013. He is also the editor of El futuro…

José Pérez Reyes

José Pérez Reyes. Asunción, Paraguay, 1972. Writer, lawyer, university professor. He has had three collections of short stories published: Ladrillos del tiempo (2002), Clonsonante (2007; his best-known work) and Asunscenarios (2012). In 2007 he was named among the Bogotá39, a Hay Festival initiative recognising the continent’s best young authors. His…

Agustín del Moral Tejada

Agustín del Moral Tejeda. Las Choapas, Veracruz, Mexico, 1956. Novelist, journalist and social activist. He was a member of the PRT (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores – The Workers’ Revolutionary Party) between 1978 and 1992. Between 1985 and 1987, he coordinated ‘El istmo en la cultura’, a supplement of Diario…

Hernán Iglesias Illa

After living for ten years in New York, Hernán Iglesias Illa recently moved back to Buenos Aires, the city he was born and bred in. He is the author of three books, Golden Boys (2007), Miami (2010) and American Sarmiento (2013), and he has a webpage hernanii.net. In a normal…

Wilmer Urrelo Zárate

Wilmer Urrelo Zárate. Bolivia, 1975. He is the author of three novels: Mundo negro (Nuevo Milenio, 2000), winner of the National Prize for Best Debut Novel and published in Italian by Edizione Estemporanee; Fantasmas asesinos (Alfaguara, 2006), winner of the National Prize for Best Novel; Hablar con los perros (Alfaguara,…

Pablo Corso

Pablo Corso is thirty-three years old and lives in Buenos Aires, having spent childhood and adolescence in Bariloche, Patagonia. He is a Communications graduate, a journalist and an Independiente fan. His crónicas and articles have been published in Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Brando and Caras & Caretas.…

Clara Becker

Clara Becker is from Rio de Janeiro. She is a Botafogo fan and a reporter for the magazine Veja Brasília. She worked for piauí magazine from 2009 to 2013. ‘Congressman Romário: Big Fish in the Aquarium’ (‘Peixe no aquário’) was first published in piauí in January 2012.

Surya Lecona Moctezuma

Surya Lecona Moctezuma is a Mexican freelance journalist focused on human-rights issues and current affairs across Latin America. She loves non-fiction, crónicas and old typewriters. She has contributed to numerous publications, including Replicante, Expansión, La Otra Orilla, El Financiero and De Largo Aliento. She is part of the editorial board…

Leonardo Haberkorn

Leonardo Haberkorn is a Uruguayan journalist and Associated Press correspondent in Montevideo. He has worked for a range of media outlets in Uruguay and has had pieces published in several leading Latin American magazines, including Gatopardo (Colombia/Mexico) and Etiqueta Negra (Peru). His work has been published in the anthologies Crónicas…

Marco Avilés

Marco Avilés. Peru, 1978. Journalist and editor. He is content manager at Cometa, an enterprise dedicated to telling stories in different settings and locations (cometa.pe). He has had one book published, Día de visita (Libros del KO, Spain), and he previously edited the crónicas magazine Etiqueta Negra. He lives in…

Mario Murillo

Mario Murillo was born in La Paz, Bolivia, on August 7, 1980. He teaches at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and the Universidad Católica Boliviana. He has had two books published, La bala no mata sino el destino: Una crónica de la insurrección popular de 1952 en Bolivia (Plural, 2012)…

Juan Pablo Meneses

Juan Pablo Meneses. Santiago de Chile, 1969. Writer and journalist. He is the author of several books, including Equipaje de mano (2003), La vida de una vaca (2008) and Niños futbolistas (2013). He studied journalism in Santiago and in Barcelona. In Mexico he edited Generación ¡Bang! (2012), an anthology of…

Alberto Salcedo Ramos

Alberto Salcedo Ramos. Barranquilla, Colombia, 1963. Journalist and writer, author of numerous non-fiction books, including La eterna parranda and El oro y la oscuridad (both published by Aguilar). He is a teacher at the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano and has run crónica workshops in several countries. His work has been…

Álex Ayala Ugarte

Álex Ayala Ugarte is a Spaniard by birth, a Bolivian by heart and a stutterer by vocation. He was the Sunday editor of the Bolivian newspaper La Razón, the creative non-fiction editor of the weekly Pulso and founder of Pie Izquierdo, the first non-fiction magazine in Bolivia. He contributes to…

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