Iosi Havilio

Who is Iosi Havilio?

Iosi Havilio is an Argentine author.

His first novel, Open Door was published in Buenos Aires in 2006. The novel tells the story of a young woman that, after losing her job in Buenos Aires, finds herself drifting towards a very different pace of life in the countryside. Open Door was highly praised by influential writers and critics like Rodolfo Fogwill and Beatriz Sarlo. Sarlo commented : ‘Open Door really surprised me, it doesn’t obey any of the laws of reading, it feels like it sprang out of nowhere.’. In 2009, Open Door was published in Spain by Caballo de Troya.

In 2011, Open Door was translated into English by Beth Fowler and published in the United Kingdom by the London-based publisher And Other Stories.

Havilio took part of the antology Buenos Aires/Escala 1:1 and the Spanish edition of La Joven Guardia. IN 2010, Havilio published his second work, Estocolmo. The main character of Estocolmo is a gay Chilean man returning to his home country from 30 years of exile in Sweden after the 1973 coup d'état.

His third novel, Paradises, is set to be published by And Other Stories in 2013.