Marcial Souto (born 1947 in

A Coruña A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in Galicia and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and s ...

, Spain) is a Spanish-born Argentine

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

writer. Souto originally moved to

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

, but has lived in Argentina since 1970. In Argentina he created magazines and in 1985 edited ''La ciencia ficción en la Argentina'', which is one of the most important anthologies of Argentine science fiction. He also translated the work of

Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and r ...

and others into Spanish. He won the Karel Prize for SF translation. His work is said to involve the enigmatic nature of physical reality and

human perception Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system ...

.Latin American Science Fiction Writers: An A-To-Z Guide, article by Eric Rojas spanning 196-198
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