Edmundo Paz Soldán

Edmundo Paz Soldán was born in Cochabamba on 29 March 1967 and went to school there at the Don Bosco school. After studies in Buenos Aires, he left for the United States, where he has lived since 1991: a graduate of the University of Alabama and a doctor of Berkeley in 1997 with a thesis on Alcides Arguedas, he has since taught Latin American literature at Cornell University. A figure of the generation that dismissed magical realism, he received the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1997, his country's national novel prize in 2002 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2006.

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• NovelRío FugitivoEdmundo Paz Soldán · 1998not translated into EnglishLiterature