Eduardo Halfon

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Halfon at the 2018 Texas Book Festival

Eduardo Halfon (born 1971) is a Guatemalan writer. [1]

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Career

Eduardo Halfon was born in Guatemala City, moved to the United States at the age of ten, went to school in South Florida, studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University, and then returned to Guatemala to teach literature for eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. [2] Named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá, [3] he is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, [4] Roger Caillois Prize, José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, and Guatemalan National Prize in Literature. He is the author of fourteen books published in Spanish and three novels published in English: Mourning, winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the International Latino Book Award, finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Balcones Fiction Prize, and long listed for the PEN Translation Prize; Monastery, long-listed for the Best Translated Book Award; The Polish Boxer, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and finalist for the International Latino Book Award; and Canción, longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. In 2019, Halfon lived in Paris and held a fellowship from Columbia University. He moved to Berlin in 2021, as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

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Awards

References

  1. "Halfon recrea la Guatemala de los setenta en "Mañana nunca lo hablamos"" (in Spanish). ADN.es. Retrieved 17 May 2011.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. "Contributors: Eduardo Halfon". Granta Magazine. 8 December 2010. Archived from the original on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  3. "Q&A With Guatemalan Writer Eduardo Halfon". Sampsonia Way Magazine. May 5, 2011
  4. "Eduardo Halfon Guggenheim Fellow". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 28 April 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  5. Redacción (17 January 2022). "Elaine Vilar Madruga se hace con el premio Cálamo por 'La tiranía de las moscas'" . Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  6. "Berman Literature Prize Laureats".
  7. "Eduardo Halfon, Prix Médicis Etranger pour son roman 'Tarentule'".
  8. "Eduardo Halfon, Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana por 'Tarántula'".