Authors
Jorge Volpi Novelist Mexico
Jorge has a BA in Law and a MA in Mexican Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, as well as a PhD in Philology from the University of Salamanca, Spain. He is the author of seven novels and two essays about the Mexican intellectuals in 1968 and in 1994. In 1999 he received the Biblioteca Breve Prize for his novel In Search of Klingsor (1999), the first part of his ‘Trilogy of the 20th Century’, and it has been published in 21 languages worldwide. The second part of the Trilogy, The End of Madness, was published in 2003 and the third part was published by Alfaguara in September 2006. He was Visiting Writer at Emory University, Atlanta, in 2000, and Visiting Professor at Cornell University, New York, in 2005. From 2001 to 2003, he was Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Paris, France, and he won a J. S. Guggenheim Scholarship in 2004. He now lives in San Sebastián, Spain, and in Mexico City.
Participation Program
Round Table 3 Newness in my literature
Round Table 2 Newness in my literature
Round Table 1 Newness in my literature