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Horacio Castellanos Moya

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Horacio Castellanos Moya

El Salvador

Horacio Castellanos Moya is a writer and journalist from El Salvador. For two decades he worked as an editor at news agencies, magazines, and newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala, and his own country. He has published eleven novels, five short-story collections, and two essay collections....

His novels have been translated into eleven languages; seven (Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in El Salvador, The Dream of My Return, Senselessness, The She-Devil in the Mirror, Dance with Snakes, Tyrant Memory, and The Dream of My Return) are available in English. He teaches creative writing and media studies in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa.

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Articles by Horacio Castellanos Moya

Snatch
By Horacio Castellanos Moya
“He is a survivor, but he doesn’t write like one.”—Roberto Bolaño
Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee
A Dangerous Homage
By Horacio Castellanos Moya
Translated from the Spanish by Samantha SchneeTen years ago, in the summer of 1997, I was visiting Guatemala City and staying with a friend when the phone rang in the middle of the night. It was my mother…
From “Senselessness”
By Horacio Castellanos Moya
I am not complete in the mind, said the sentence I highlighted with the yellow marker and even copied into my personal notebook...
Translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver