Guillermo Martinez

Guillermo Martínez lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has a Ph. D. in Mathematical Logic. He pursued post doctoral studies during two years in Oxford, England. His first book of short stories, Infierno Grande ("Vast Hell"), won the National Funding for the Arts Award, one of the most important literary prizes in his country. Several of those stories were translated to different languages including English and German. His first novel, Acerca de Roderer ("Regarding Roderer"), was acclaimed by the critics and has been included in a collection of the best argentinian books of the century. It was published in the States by St. Martin"s Press and also in Spain, Norway and Serbia.

Later on he published the novel La mujer del maestro ("The Woman of the Master") and the book of essays Borges y la matemática ("Borges and Mathematics"). In 2003 he was awarded with the Planeta Prize for his novel Crímenes Imperceptibles ("The Oxford Murders"). This novel was during six months in the top list of best sellers in Argentina, and was published with great success in Spain, England, France, German, and Italy. Translations rights have been sold to other 30 countries and there is going to be a film adaptation in 2006 by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia. In 2005 he published La fórmula de la inmortalidad ("The Immortality Formula") a book of essays about literature. He took part of the International Writing Programm of the Iowa University (EEUU) and he got grants for residencies in The Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), The MacDowell Colony (EEUU) and The Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy). He writes regularly essays, articles and literary reviews for La Nacion and other newspapers.