Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the Best Translated Book Award and was chosen by The Guardian as one of ‘The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century’. His second novel The Transmigration of Bodies was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and his sci-fi inflected collection of stories Ten Planets was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University, New Orleans.
"Yuri Herrera destaca con su primer libro, Trabajos del reino, en el que, a través de la mirada de un compositor de corridos, despliega ante el lector un panorama de la 'vida palaciega' de un cártel del narcotráfico. Lobo, protagonista y narrador de la novela, es un ser marginado...
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