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Juan Villoro was born in Mexico City in 1956. He is a journalist, narrator and author of screenplays who received the Villaurrutia Prize for his short story collection La casa pierde (1999), the Mazatlán Prize for his book of essays Efectos personales (2000), and the Herralde Prize for his novel El testigo (2004). He was the cultural attaché in the Mexican Embassy of Germany (Berlin). He has been a professor of literature in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has taught at Yale University and Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. His chronicles and articles have been published in major periodicals of Latin America and Spain. Selections of his non-fiction works have been published in Los once de la tribu (1995) and Safari accidental (2005). Villoro’s writings have covered a wide range of topics, from sports to The Simpson; he has translated Lichtenberg's aphorisms into Spanish, and interviewed Jane Fonda.

 Jorge Volpi

Jorge Volpi was born in 1968 in Mexico City. Volpi received his degree in Law and Literature at the UNAM, and later a Ph.D. in Spanish philology at the Universidad de Salamanca. He is one of the founders of “El Crack,” a Mexican literary movement. Volpi is well known for his novels and essays. His most famous book, En busca de Klingsor (1999), was translated into English as In Search of Klingsor, by Kristina Cordero, and published by Scribner’s. It won the Spanish Biblioteca Breve Prize, in addition to the French Deux-Océans-Grinzane-Cavour-Prize. It has been translated into fourteen languages. Volpi has also published, among other novels and essays, El fin de la locura (2003), La imaginación y el poder: una historia intelectual del 68 (1998). He is currently director of television Channel 22, in Mexico.

Bárbara Jacobs

Barbara Jacobs was born in 1947 in Mexico City. She has published novels and essays and is a regular contributor to the daily La Jornada. Her first novel, The Dead Leaves (1984, translated into English by David Unger, and published by Curbstone Press), was granted the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1984. She has also published Las siete fugas de Saab, alias el Rizos (1992), Vida con mi amigo (1994) and Adiós humanidad (2000), as well as an anthology of short stories co-authored with Augusto Monterroso, Antología del cuento triste (1993).