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Rogelio Guedea Mexico
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Rogelio
Guedea, born in Mexico in 1974, is considered one of
Mexico’s most important young authors. He studied law and literature in Mexico
and Spain and has already received countless prizes, among others the highly
respected Premio Adonáis de Poesía. Guedea currently lectures at the University of Otago in New
Zealand.
In Conducir un tráiler (“Driving a Trailer Truck”), the young Abel
Corona goes looking for his girlfriend, taking a lift from a truck driver who
is involved in the drugs trade. When he steals money from him, Abel starts
fearing for his life. Then his brother Ismael is found dead, and Abel is
confronted with an old family feud: a fight over land ending in death. Is he
being lured into a trap, to fall victim to revenge?
Excellent. A great novel, I really did enjoy it.
Paco
Ignacio Taibo II
It will not be long before the writer
of this book is recognised by critics as a key and refreshing force in contemporary
Mexican narrative.
Adelso
Yánez, Caribe
Driving a Trailer Truck opens new paths within the contemporary narrative.
Blanca
Fonseca, JILAR
Colima/Mexico:
in the heat of an election campaign, the governor's brother is found
assassinated with a 41-calibre bullet. Has he fallen
victim to a serial killer or is the opposition party behind it? Based on a true
story, the novel 41 paints a
merciless picture of present-day Mexico.
With this book, Guedea
is consolidated as one of Mexico’s best narrators.
La
Jornada Semanal
Reading is a highly enjoyable craft, as Guedea shows in his narrative essay Oficio: leer (“Business: reading”). In the form of short fictional pieces based around the works of well-known writers such as Cioran, Bolaño, Greene, Pessoa, Kafka and García Márquez, he awakens our desire for turning pages. Rogelio Guedea’s latest novel Vidas
secretas (“Secret Lives”) tells the story of a
perfidious scheme. The Mexican Roque de la Mora
teaches Spanish at a university in New Zealand. Although very attracted to his
student Natasha, he resists her obvious advances – until he gets a nasty
surprise.
For further information, please also visit the
author’s website:
http://www.rogelioguedea.com Original editions (selection) and rights sold: Novels:Conducir un tráiler, Mexico City: Random House Mondadori 2008, 214 p.
English sample translation availableSilverio Cañadas Prize 2009 at the Semana Negra in Gijón
US: Texas Tech University Press 41, Mexico City: Random House Mondadori 2010, 240 p.
English translation availableFrance: Flammarion Vidas secretas, Mexico City: Ediciones B, forthcoming March 2012
El crimen de los Tepames, Mexico City: Random House Mondadori, forthcoming
Essays/Chronicles:Al vuelo, Tlaqupaque/Guadalajara: Mantis 2003, 103 p.
Crónicas del reincidente, Mexico City: Universidad de Colima 2006, 244 p.
Poetas del Medio Siglo: mapa de una generación, Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2007, 150 p.
Oficio: leer, Mexico City: Aldus 2008, 133 p.
Italy: Graphe Vidas secretas, Mexico City: Ediciones B 2012, 144 p.
El crimen de los Tepames, Mexico City: Random House Mondadori, forthcoming
Poetry: Mientras olvido, Spain: Follas Novas 2001, 86 p.
(Premio Internacional de Poesía Rosalía de Castro 2001) Razón de mundo, Mexico City: Instituto de Cultura de Nayarit 2006, 63 p.
(Premio Nacional de Poesía Amado Nervo 2004) Fragmento, Mexico City: Instituto Sonorense de Cultura 2006, 87 p.
(Premio Internacional de Poesía Sonora 2005) Kora, Madrid: Ediciones Rialp 2009, 90 p.
(Premio Internacional de Poesía Adonáis 2008) Exilio, Antología poética 2001-2010, Madrid: Rilke 2010, 84 p.
Micro-fiction:
Para/caídas, Mexico City: Ficticia/Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes 2007, 130 p.
Del aire al aire, Barcelona: Thule 2004, 94 p.
Caída libre, Mexico City: Colibrí 2005, 164 p.
New Zealand (English language): Titus Books 2010 Cruce de vías, Palencia: Menoscuarto 2010, 96 p.
Pasajero en tránsito, Guadalajara: Arlequín 2010