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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.

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. (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006)

Natasha Wimmer

(2009). The Bottom of the Sky, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2018).

El fondo del cielo

(2014). The Invented Part, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2017).

La parte inventada

(2017). The Dreamed Part, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2019).

La parte soñada

(2019). The Remembered Part, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2022).

La parte recordada

Melvill (2022). Melvill, trans. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, 2024).

El estilo de los elementos (2024)

Awards and honors[edit]

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


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

(in Spanish)

Biography

(in Spanish)

Interview

(in Spanish)

Another interview

November 2009. (in Spanish)

Interview in the literary blog Hablando del asunto

(in English)

Translators’ Triptych: Around the World (All Worlds) In One Sentence by Rodrigo Fresán from Latin American Literature Today