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 Mathematical Institute,

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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 Alex de la Iglesia, and starring

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and

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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'' (''

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'', 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