Horacio Castellanos Moya

Horacio Castellanos Moya is among the leading contemporary Salvadoran novelists and short story writers.

He was born in 1957 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, though his family moved to El Salvador while he was only a few years old. He lived in San Salvador until 1979, and since has resided in Toronto, Canada, San José, Costa Rica, Mexico City and Frankfurt, Germany working as a journalist. His works have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Italian, Portuguese and German, the latter owing largely to his novel "El asco," which is written in tribute to Thomas Bernhard, in the style of the Austrian novelist. His first novel, "La diáspora," which concerns the struggles of the exiles from the Salvadoran Civil War, won the Premio Nacional de la Novela, awarded by the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, in 1988. He is currently living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a part of the City of Asylum project there. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Bibliography

* "La diáspora," 1988 (Novel)
* "¿Qué signo es usted, niña Berta?," 1982 (Short stories)
* "Perfil de prófugo," 1987 (Short stories)
* "El gran masturbador," 1993 (Short stories)
* "Con la congoja de la pasada tormenta," 1995 (Short stories)
* "Recuento de incertidumbres: cultura y transición en El Salvador," 1995 (Essay)
* "Baile con serpientes," 1996 (Novel)
* "El asco, Thomas Bernhard en El Salvador," 1997 (Novel)
* "La diabla en el espejo," 2000 (Novel, Finalist Rómulo Gallegos Award)
* "El arma en el hombre," 2001 (Novel)
* "Donde no estén ustedes," 2003 (Novel)
* "Indolencia," 2004 (Short stories)
* "Insensatez," 2004 (Senselessness, English translation published by New Directions 2008) (Novel)
* "Desmoronamiento," 2006 (Novel)
* "Tirana memoria," 2008 (Novel)

References

* [http://www.uni-potsdam.de/castellanos-moya Facts, book reviews and analysis of the work of Horacio Castellanos Moya, in German and Spanish]

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