Martín Caparrós (Buenos Aires, 1957) took a History degree in Paris, lived in Madrid, New York and Barcelona, has worked –and still does– in journalism for different kinds of media; edited book and cookery magazines; translated Voltaire, Shakespeare and Quevedo; received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Planeta and Herralde Novel Prizes, the Tiziano Terzani and Caballero Bonald Prizes for Non-fiction and the Rey de España and Moors Cabot prizes for Journalism. He has published over thirty books in more than thirty countries. Many of them will be republished in the Martín Caparrós Library, launched by Random House in 2020 and which already includes the novels Sinfín, Un día en la vida de Dios, and the non-fiction work El Hambre.
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