Andrés Ressia Colino is an

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writer. He was born in

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in 1977. He studied biology at the

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in Montevideo. He published his first short story in 2005, in the pages of '' Pimba!'' magazine, and his first novel ''Palcante'' in 2007. His second novel ''Parir'' (2008) won the Municipal Prize for Fiction. In 2010, he was featured in The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists issue of

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. He lives in Montevideo, where he works in the scientific field.Bio
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