"Halfon no es de los escritores que escriben para sí mismos o para nadie. Halfon escribe para un público claro y definido y, se me ocurre, numeroso. Aquellos que han pensado o han intentado suicidarse. Aquellos que les interesa y obsesiona el tema, tal como le sucede al propio Halfon que pareciera acechar a los espíritus suicidas que no tuvieron la misma suerte o fortaleza que él. Halfon escribe sobre pintores y escritores pero en el fondo escribe sobre aquellos que están mal, que están solos, que no se atreven". Alberto Fuguet
Author
Eduardo Halfon was born in 1971 in Guatemala City. He studied Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University, and later was professor of Literature at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, in Guatemala. In 2011 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on continuing the story of The Polish Boxer, which is the first of his novels to be published in English, by Bellevue Literary Press in the U.S. and Pushkin Press in the U.K. His novels include Esto no es una pipa, Saturno; De cabo roto; El ángel literario; El boxeador polaco; and La pirueta, which won the José María de Pereda Prize for Short Novel in Santander, Spain. His short fiction has been published in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, and Dutch. He has taught literature at Guatemala; in 2007 the Bogotá Hay Festival listed him as one of “39 best young Latin American writers.”
