Patricio Pron is the author of six books of short stories and eleven novels. In 2010, Granta named him one of the twenty-two best Spanish-language writers of his generation. He has been a Director’s Guest at Civitella Ranieri and Santa Maddalena, a visiting lecturer in the Department of Literature at Cologne University, and a fellow at the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies and at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His work has won numerous awards, been translated into twelve languages and published in more than twenty countries. Pron holds a PhD in Romance Philology from the Georg-August University in Gottingen and lives in Madrid with his wife and two cats.