Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Jorge Ibargüengoitia was born in 1928 in Guanajato, central Mexico. Winner of the Premio Casa de las Americas, as well as the Premio Mexico, for his novel Estas ruinas que vas. He worked as a translator, as a teacher of Spanish literature in American universities and as a journalist in Mexico City. He is also the author of The Dead Girls. He died in 1983 in Spain.