Hernán Bravo Varela was born in Mexico City in 1979. He is the author of five books of poems and two of literary non-fiction, including: Oficios de ciega pertenencia (CONACULTA, 1999 and 2004), Sobrenaturaleza (Pre-Textos, Spain, 2010), Hasta aquí (Almadía, 2014) and Historia de mi hígado y otros ensayos (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017). He won the Elías Nandino National Prize for Young Poets in 1999 as well as the 2010 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Literary Award in the literary non-fiction category.
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