Martín Felipe Castagnet is an
Argentine writer. He was born in
La Plata on May 31, 1986. He obtained a PhD in literature from the
National University of La Plata
The La Plata National University ( es, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP) is one of the most important Argentine national universities and the biggest one situated in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province. It has over 90 ...
. He is an editor of the bilingual journal ''
The Buenos Aires Review''. His first novel ''Bodies of Summer'' won the Saint-Nazaire MEET Young Latin American Literature Award and has been translated into English (by
Frances Riddle
Frances Riddle (born in Houston) is an American-born literary translator, specializing in the translation of contemporary Latin American literature into English.
She has a BA in Spanish Language and Literature from Louisiana State University and ...
), French, and Hebrew. In 2017, he published his second book ''Los mantras modernos''. Also that year, he was named as one of the
Bogota39, a list of the most promising young writers in
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
.
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Argentine writers
1986 births
Living people
People from La Plata