- Rodrigo Fresán
Rodrigo Fresán (born 1963 in
Buenos Aires ,Argentina ) is afiction writer andjournalist .He has published "
Historia argentina ", "Vidas de santos ", "Trabajos manuales ", "Esperanto", "La velocidad de las cosas ", "Mantra" and "Jardines de Kensington ". They have been translated into many languages."Mantra", a portrait of Mexico DF ca. 2000, reveals a deep influence of Science Fiction novels (
Philip K. Dick in particular), movies (Stanley Kubrick ) and TV shows ("The Twilight Zone"). His last novel "Kensington Gardens" has recently been translated to English by Natasha Wimmer. According toJonathan Lethem , "he's a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room."Fresán lives and works in
Barcelona ,Spain , since 1999.He was a close friend of the late Chilean writer
Roberto Bolaño .External links
* [http://www.literatura.org/Fresan/Fresan.html Biography] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.lateral-ed.es/revista/articulos/115_116rfresan.htm Interview] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.freaks-unidos.net/~javier/entrevistas/entrevistafresan.html Another interview] (also in Spanish)
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