David TOSCANA
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA V BIENNIAL NOVEL PRIZE, 2023
Mazatlán De Literatura Award (Mexico), 2023
Elena Poniatowska Iberoamerican Award (Mexico), 2017
Xavier Villaurrutia Award (Mexico), 2017
Antonin Artaud Award (France), 2009
José María Arguedas Award (Casa de las Américas Novel Award), 2008
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“Toscana’s writing proves overall to be witty and disarming, alluding amusingly to Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes.”
(Monterrey, Mexico, 1961). He graduated as an Industrial and Systems Engineer. He was part of the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa and the Berliner Künstlerprogramm.
He is the author of Estación Tula (1995), Lontananza (1997), Santa María del Circo (1998), Duelo por Miguel Pruneda (2002), El último lector (2004, Antonin Artaud, Bellas Artes de Narrativa and José Fuentes Mares awards), El ejército iluminado (2006, Casa de las Américas José María Arguedas Prize), Los puentes de Königsberg (2009), La ciudad que el diablo se llevó (2012, Candaya 2020), Evangelia (2016) and Olegaroy (2017, Xavier Villaurrutia and XI Elena Poniatowska prizes).
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Translated into more than ten languages including French, English, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Polish
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