Andrés Neuman

Who is Andrés Neuman?

Andrés Neuman is a Spanish-Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger.

The son of Argentine émigré musicians, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he spent his childhood. He currently lives in Granada, Spain. He has a degree in Spanish Philology from the University of Granada, where he also taught Latin American literature.

Through a vote called by the Hay Festival, Neuman was selected among the most outstanding young Latin American authors, being included on the Bogotá39 list. Later he was selected by the British literary magazine Granta as one of the 22 Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. His fourth novel, the award-winning Traveller of the Century, first to be published in English, was selected among the best books of the year by The Guardian, The Independent and Financial Times. This novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

In one of the essays of his book Entre paréntesis, the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño stated about Neuman: "He has a gift.