Alberto FuguetAlberto Fuguet

Born in Santiago de Chile, Alberto Fuguet spent his early childhood in California. He is one of the most prominent Latin American authors of his generation and one of the leaders of the literary movement known as McOndo, which blends "McDonald's" with Garcia Marquez's "Macondo" and proclaims the end of magical realism. He has been a film critic and director. He lives in Santiago de Chile. Photo by Valeria Zalaquett

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Gonzalo MartinezGonzalo Martinez

Gonzalo Martinez was born in Chile in 1961. His work has been published in a wide range of media, from independent comic magazines to newspapers doing comics, illustrations and comic strips. His strip íHoracio y el Profesorë was published from 1989 to 1999 in the main Chilean newspaper El Mercurio and in the comics banner of the Opera internet browser. Since 2003 I have worked mainly for the American market. He is currently working on a new title for Forcewërks and Alias Enterprises, Super Teen*Topia, written by Kirk Kushin. His website is gonzalo-martinez.blogspot.com.

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Samantha Schnee is a founding editor of Words without Borders. She is the former senior editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, a literary journal founded by Francis Ford Coppola that won the 2001 National Magazine Award for fiction. She translates from the Spanish.

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