Guillermo Martínez (born 29 July 1962) is an

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and

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. Martínez was born in

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, Argentina. He gained a PhD in

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at the

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. After his degree in Argentina, he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the

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. His most successful novel has been ''Crímenes Imperceptibles (Imperceptible Crimes)'', known in English as '' The Oxford Murders'', written in 2003. In the same year, he was awarded the

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for this novel, which has been translated into a number of languages. The book has appeared as a

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in 2008, directed by

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, and starring

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, Elijah Wood,

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and

Julie Cox Julie Cox is an English actress. She played Princess Irulan in the Sci Fi Channel's 2000 miniseries ''Frank Herbert's Dune'' and its 2003 sequel, ''Frank Herbert's Children of Dune''. She also played The Childlike Empress in ''The Neverending S ...

Books

* ''Vast Hell'' (''Infierno grande'', 1989) — short stories * ''Regarding Roderer'' (''Acerca de Roderer'', 1993) — novel * ''The Woman of the Master'' (''La mujer del maestro'', 1998) — novel * ''Borges and Mathematics'' (''Borges y las matemáticas'', 2003) — essays * '' The Oxford Murders'' (''Crímenes imperceptibles'', 2003) — novel * ''The Immortality Formula'' (''La fórmula de la inmortalidad'', 2005) — essays * ''The Book of Murder'' (''La Muerte Lenta de Luciana B'', 2007) — novel * ''Gödel (para todos)'', 2009 — essay * ''Lalu la luco'', 2016 — novel * ''The Oxford Brotherhood'' (''

Little, Brown Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emily D ...

'', 2021) — novel

References

External links

Guillermo Martínez website

Fantastic Fiction entry
1962 births Living people People from Bahía Blanca University of Buenos Aires alumni International Writing Program alumni Argentine male novelists Argentine mathematicians Academics of the University of Oxford 20th-century Argentine novelists 21st-century Argentine novelists 20th-century Argentine male writers 21st-century Argentine male writers {{Mathematician-stub