Rodrigo Fresán was born in Buenos Aires in 1963 and has been living in Barcelona since 1999.
He is the author of “Historia argentina” (Anagrama, 1993), “Vidas de santos” (Random House, 2005), “Trabajos manuales” (Planeta, 1994), “Esperanto” (Tusquets,1997), “La velocidad de las cosas” (Tusquets,1998), “Mantra” (Mondadori, 2002) (Fnac New Talent Award 2002) (Prix Technikart), “Kensington Gardens” (Random House, 2003) (Narrative Lateral Prize in 2004 and finalist of the José Manuel Lara Foundation Prize), “The Bottom of the Sky” (Random House, 2009) (Locus Magazine Favourite Speculative Fiction in Translation Novel in 2018), the triptych comprising “The Invented Part” (Best Translated Book Award USA in 2018), “The Dreamed Part” and “The Remembered Part” (Random House 2014-2017-2019), “Melvill” (Random House, 2022), “El estilo de los elementos” (Random House, 2024) and “El Pequeño Gatsby” (Debate, 2025).
Fresán was granted the Prix Roger Caillois in France in 2017 for the entirety of his work on being considered “an unavoidable atypical transgressor writer”.
