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Reviews

"Guillermo Fadanelli is a Mexican writer, powerful and marginal at the same time, a great combination. One of the greatest of his country":

Enrique Vila—Matas

"After some years have passed, Fadanelli has become one of the most important exponents of urban contemporary literature, and somehow, paradoxically, one of the central voices of the marginality which he redeems":

Valeria Luiselli

Author Biography

Guillermo Fadanelli was born in Mexico City at El Sagrado Corazón Hospital located in Calzada de Tlalpan, D. F. A hospital that no longer exists: it is a hotel now. At nine years old he fronts his first fight with fists and the child who was nicknamed El Caperuza defeats him. At the age of eleven, his father enrolls him at a military school, where he becomes more cynical rather than corrected. At thirteen he wins his first fight after a long history of losses. At the age of eighteen he gets his first car: Rambler 67. His first trip outside the country is to San Francisco at the age of twenty-one. There, he meets his uncle Johnny, a former Vietnam fighter who initiates him into the art of drinking tons of beer. In the early eighties he starts studying Engineering and never gets the title because he avoids entering classes. At this time, is when literature starts interesting him. At Engineering School he meets Yolanda Martinez, and together with a group of friends he founds MOHO Magazine. His first book is entitled The Day I See Her, I'll Kill Her (El día que la vea la voy a matar), published by Editorial Grijalbo. In the early nineties he sells Christmas trees at the 87th and Second Avenue corner in New York, he earns 1500 dollars. Some years later, he works as a salesman in a bakery in Madrid; in exchange for his work he receives a roof and food, no payment. He lives in Berlin for a year, and he is surprised because beer is served warm there. He is also interested in the Hohenzollern’s biography. In Bogotá and Havana he makes good friends. In Lima he excites the press (a newspaper announces his disappearance and possible abduction), and in Graz he goes to have a drink with the director of the Criminology Museum. He has published several novels and holds on to lead Editorial Moho. Nowadays he has lost most of his friends because of the passing time. Anyway, he seems to be very happy.

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