Mempo Giardinelli Author

Mempo Giardinelli is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, essays, and children’s fiction, and a journalist. He lived in exile, in Mexico (1976-1984), where his first works of fiction were published. He has taught Latin American literature at universities in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States. Giardinelli has garnered many prestigious awards for his works of fiction and essays, among them the Premio Rómulo Gallegos (1993), which is the most important literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. His works have been translated to twenty-six languages. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a Professor of Spanish and the Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Louisville. She has translated the narrative fiction of the Argentine writers Ana María Shua, Perla Suez, Tununa Mercado, and Mempo Giardinelli, and the Mexican writer Alberto Ruy Sánchez, among others, and is the author of numerous critical studies on contemporary Latin American writers.