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Vicente Alfonso

Author · 6 books

Vicente Alfonso (Torreón, México, 1977) is a journalist and author of the novels Bones of San Lorenzo (Huesos de San Lorenzo – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Prize 2015) and A score for a dead woman (Partitura para mujer muerta, Literatura Random House 2008) awarded in México with the National Noir Prize; the short stories books Counting nights (Contar las noches – María Luisa Puga National Short Stories Award) and The Esquilo Syndrome (El síndrome de Esquilo, Ficticia 2007). He compiled and wrote the preface of essays on the literary work of acclaimed José Revueltas entitled Vice live (El vicio de vivir). Vicente has been recipient of the prestigious Foundation for Mexican Literature (twice), the Mexican Fund for Culture and the Arts of Coahuila State and also with a fellowship of the International Cooperation México-USA Program for an Artistic Residence at Winston-Salem (USA). He is currently co-editor of the cultural supplement ‘Confabulario’ of Mexican newspaper El Universal.