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Ricardo Chávez Castañeda

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Ricardo Chávez Castañeda

Ricardo Chavez Castañeda was born in Mexico City in 1961. One of the founding members of the Mexican literary movement known as the "Crack" that began in the 1990s, a group of young writers who broke with literary conventions in a reaction against the Latin American "Boom," he has won many prizes for his writing, which includes novels, short stories, essays, and children's books. He holds a BA in Psychology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, a Master's Degree in Latin American literature from New Mexico State University, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Middlebury College.

Articles by Ricardo Chávez Castañeda

The Book of Denial
By Ricardo Chávez Castañeda
This story is the worst story in the world—it's just terrible.
Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel