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.
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). Kensington Gardens, trans. Natasha Wimmer (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006)
- El fondo del cielo (2009). The Bottom of the Sky, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2018).
- La parte inventada (2014). The Invented Part, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2017).
- La parte soñada (2017). The Dreamed Part, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2019).
- La parte recordada (2019). The Remembered Part, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2022).
- Melvill (2022). Melvill, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2024).
- El estilo de los elementos (2024)
Awards and honors
In 2017, Rodrigo Fresán received the prestigious Prix Roger Caillois.
In 2018, The Invented Part won the Best Translated Book Award.
External links
- Biography (in Spanish)
- Interview (in Spanish)
- Another interview (in Spanish)
- Interview in the literary blog Hablando del asunto, November 2009. (in Spanish)
- Translators’ Triptych: Around the World (All Worlds) In One Sentence by Rodrigo Fresán from Latin American Literature Today (in English)
References
- ^ 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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