Contemporary El Salvadoran writer and journalist
Horacio Castellanos Moya is a writer and a journalist from El Salvador. For two decades he worked as the editor of news agencies, magazines and newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala and his own country. As a fiction writer, he was granted residencies in a program supported by the Frankfurt International Book Fair (2004-2006) and in the City of Asylum program in Pittsburgh (2006-2008). He has also taught in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009, he was guest researcher at the University of Tokyo with a fellowship granted by the Japan Foundation. He has published ten novels, five short story collections and a book of essays. His novels have been translated into eleven languages; four of them (Senselessness, The She-Devil in the Mirror, Dance with Snakes, and Tyrant Memory) are available in English. Currently he teaches creative writing and media in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa.
Tyrant Memory
The She-Devil in the Mirror
Senselessness
photo credit: Nina Subin
“I recommend Horacio Castellano Moya's fanastic Senselessness, in which a writer takes on the dangerous job of editing a report on military atrocities in an unnamed country. Both a descent into hell and a book about how one becomes human. (Best Books of the Year)”
— Junot Diaz, New York Magazine on Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness
“A brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materials”
— Russell Banks on Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness
“The She-Devil in the Mirror is Horacio Castellanos Moya's funniest, darkest, most terrifying work. A 'typical' superficial telenovela-like Salvadoran upper-class heroine investigates her friend's murder and somehow her chattery, strenuously bright account of her adventure and her descent toward madness reveals more about intractable corruption, impunity and pure evil in her country than the usual narrators of such stories–terse, noirish, knowning detectives or journalists, for example–ever could.”
— Francisco Goldman on Horacio Castellanos Moya's The She-Devil in the Mirror
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