Eduardo Halfon is a Guatemala

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n writer.

Biography

Halfon was born in 1971 in Guatemala City

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. He studied Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University

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, and later was professor of Literature at Universidad Francisco Marroquín

Universidad Francisco Marroquín

Universidad Francisco Marroquín is a private, secular, university in Guatemala City, Guatemala. According to the school's website, "the mission of Universidad Francisco Marroquín is to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal and economic principles of a sociey of free and responsible persons."...

, in Guatemala. He is currently a Guggenheim Fellow.

Published works

• Esto no es una pipa, Saturno (Alfaguara 2003, Punto de Lectura 2007)
• De cabo roto (Littera Books 2003)
• El ángel literario (Anagrama 2004, Semifinalist of the Herralde Prize for Novel)
• Siete minutos de desasosiego (Panamericana Editorial 2007)
• Clases de hebreo (AMG 2008)
• Clases de dibujo (AMG 2009, XV Café Bretón y Bodegas Olarra Literary Prize)
• El boxeador polaco (Pre-Textos 2008)
• La pirueta (Pre-Textos 2010, XIV José María de Pereda Prize for Short Novel)
• Mañana nunca lo hablamos (Pre-Textos 2011)

His work has been translated into Serbian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English.

Awards

In 2007 he was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá.

External links

• http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/the-polish-boxer/ "The Polish Boxer" (story), in Words Without Borders
• http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Snapshot-Guatemala Snapshot of Guatemala, in Granta
• http://www.believermag.com/issues/201002/?read=roundtable Roundtable Discussion on Language, in The Believer
• Interview at PrensaLibre.com (in Spanish)