- Martín Solares
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Martín Solares Born 1970
Tampico, Tamaulipas[1]Occupation Writer, critic and editor Nationality Mexican Notable work(s) El planeta Cloralex (1998); The Black Minutes (Los minutos negros, 2006) Notable award(s) Efraín Huerta National Literary Award (Premio Nacional de Literatura "Efraín Huerta", Mexico, 1998) Martín Solares (born in 1970) is a Mexican writer, critic and editor who received the Efraín Huerta National Literary Award in 1998 for his short story, El planeta Cloralex.[2] The 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction laureate, Junot Díaz, praises his work as "brilliant, but mostly unavailable in English".[3]
According to an article Solares wrote for La Jornada, during his teenage years he briefly had Rafael Guillén Vicente (Subcomandante Marcos, according to the Mexican authorities) as a substitute history teacher.[4][5] He went on to work as an editor for several publishing houses and by the late 2000s he was completing a doctorate in Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of Paris I.[6]
The Black Minutes
Solares' first novel, The Black Minutes (Spanish: Los minutos negros) is a crime fiction thriller that, according to José Agustín, awakens memories of Rafael Bernal's El complot mongol[7] while a book review published at The New York Times by Larry Rohter found it reminiscent of Roberto Bolaño's 2666 or Paco Ignacio Taibo II's detective stories; claiming that "he employs some flourishes that would seem to situate him in the postmodernist camp, including the occasional surrealistic episodes and his habit of mixing real and fictional characters."[8]
In an interview with The Times, Junot Díaz expressed that The Black Minutes "is Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest, [..] a literary masterpiece masquerading as a police procedural and nothing else I’ve read this year comes close. Solares does for Latin American literature what Eduardo Lago did for Iberian literature with his monumental novel Llámame Brooklyn."[9]
The novel was shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize[10] and has been published in Spanish, English and German.[6]
Notable works
- Cloralex Planet (El planeta Cloralex, 1998)
- The Black Minutes (Los minutos negros, 2006)
References
- ^ Hiriart, Hugo (2007-01). "Los minutos negros, de Martín Solares" (in Spanish). Letras Libres. http://www.letraslibres.com/index.php?art=11624. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ Moch, Jorge (2007-08-19). "Tiradero a cielo abierto" (in Spanish). La Jornada. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/08/19/sem-moch.html. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ Ulaby, Neda (2008-10-09). "Controversy Embroils Nobel Literature Prize". Morning Edition. NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95537900. Retrieved 2009-07-26. "He has a tip for them: the young Mexican writer Martin Solares. His work, Diaz says, is brilliant, but mostly unavailable in English — or, in Swedish."
- ^ Solares, Martín (1996-02-25). "Cuando Marcos era Rafael [When Marcos was Rafael]" (in Spanish). La Jornada (Mexico City). http://www.jornada.unam.mx/1996/02/25/sem-marcos.html. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ Bosch, Lolita (2007) (in Spanish). Hecho en México. Mondadori. pp. 179–181. ISBN 8439720823. http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=EUSQdvHDA4MC&lpg=PA179&ots=QUV9VIgqrj&dq=Mart%C3%ADn%20Solares%20doctorado%20Paris&pg=PA179#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
- ^ a b Méndez, Elena (2007). "Érase una vez la corrupción: Martín Solares" (in Spanish). Espéculo, revista de estudios literarios. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero36/marsolar.html. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ "Presenta Martín Solares obra con comentarios de Volpi y Villoro" (in Spanish). Notimex/El Universal. 2007-03-15. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/412467.html. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ Rohter, Larry (31 May 2010). "Postmodern Pulp, Down Mexico Way". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/books/01book.html. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
- ^ Adès, Thomas (2008-11-26). "TLS Books of the Year 2008". The Times Online. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5236390.ece. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ "La mexicana Elena Poniatowska gana el Premio Internacional Rómulo Gallegos" (in Spanish). EFE/El Mundo. 2007-06-26. http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/06/26/cultura/1182874192.html. Retrieved 2009-07-26. "Las novelas finalistas fueron las mexicanas 'Tres lindas cubanas' de Gonzalo Celorio (Tusquets); 'Los minutos negros' de Martín Solares (Mondadori); 'El ejército iluminado' de David Toscana (Tusquets), y la ganadora 'El tren pasa primero', de Poniatowska."
Categories:- 1970 births
- Mexican writers
- People from Tampico
- Living people
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