Eduardo Halfon


Eduardo Halfon is a Guatemalan writer.

Career

Eduardo Halfon was born in Guatemala City, moved to the United States at the age of ten, went to school in South Florida, studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University, and then returned to Guatemala to teach literature for eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá, he is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roger Caillois Prize, José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, and Guatemalan National Prize in Literature. He is the author of fifteen books published in Spanish and four novels published in English: Mourning, winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the International Latino Book Award, finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Balcones Fiction Prize, and long listed for the PEN Translation Prize; Monastery, long-listed for the Best Translated Book Award; The Polish Boxer, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and finalist for the International Latino Book Award; and Canción, longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. In 2019, Halfon lived in Paris and held a fellowship from Columbia University. He moved to Berlin in 2021, as a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.

Published works

  • Esto no es una pipa, Saturno
  • De cabo roto
  • El ángel literario
  • Siete minutos de desasosiego
  • Clases de hebreo
  • Clases de dibujo
  • El boxeador polaco
  • La pirueta
  • Mañana nunca lo hablamos
  • Elocuencias de un tartamudo
  • Monasterio
  • Signor Hoffman
  • Duelo
  • Biblioteca bizarra
  • Canción
  • Un hijo cualquiera
  • ''Tarántula''

Works Translated into English

  • The Polish Boxer
  • Monastery
  • Mourning
  • Canción
  • ''Tarantula''

Awards