Mempo Giardinelli

Mempo Giardinelli is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, essays, and children’s fiction, and a journalist, and founder of La Fundación Mempo Giardinelli. He lived in exile, in Mexico (1976-1984), where his first works of  fiction were published. Giardinelli has garnered many prestigious awards for his works of fiction and essays, among them the Premio Rómulo Gallegos (1993), which is the most important literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. His works have been translated to twenty-six languages and are the subject of critical articles, dissertations, and books published in Argentina and other South American countries, the United States, and Europe.