Fernando Kofman Author

FERNANDO KOFMAN was born in the Argentine province of Misiones in 1947, and has lived in Buenos Aires since the late 1960s. He has had seven books of poetry published in his own country, including 'Zarza remueve' and 'Tres operas politicas', as well as books of essays. In addition to editing a volume of minimalist North American poetry, he has been involved with the magazines 'Batataria' and 'Satura' and in 2005 founded 'FrankBaires' (La escuela de Frankfurt en Buenos Aires), a journal intended to show the links between philosophy, poetry and politics in the contemporary world. IAN TAYLOR was born in Liverpool in 1967 and spent his childhood in Ince, Lancashire. He studied English and European Literature at the University of Warwick and also has a degree in Spanish and German from the Open University. His own writings (poetry, prose and reviews) have appeared in various magazines in the UK, USA and Argentina, while his first poetry collection, 'Ruins', was published by Spectacular Diseases in 1997. Between 1997 and 2001 he edited the avant-garde small-press magazine 'ecorche'. He became friends with Fernando Kofman during a five-month stay in Buenos Aires in 1995. For the past ten years he has lived in North Dorset and currently works as a copy editor. ANDREW GRAHAM-YOOLL was born in 1944 in Buenos Aires of a Scottish father and an English mother. He is the author of about twenty books, in English and in Spanish. He was the editor of the English-language Buenos Aires Herald (founded in 1876) up to December 2007, having joined the paper in 1966. In 1976, he left the Herald and went into exile during the military dictatorship, but in 1994 he returned to Argentina where he became editor and president of the board of the Herald. Graham-Yooll's books include the now classic 'A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina's Nightmare' (1985), which author Graham Greene called "the book of the year" at the time. He is also known for 'The Forgotten Colony: A History of the English-speaking Communities in Argentina', first published in 1981. He translates Spanish poetry into English, and British and US poets into Spanish. In 2002, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE), by the British Crown.