Gustavo FAVERÓN PATRIAU (Peru)
(Lima, 1966) holds a PhD in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University and currently works as an associate professor at Bowdoin College, Maine, where he directs the Latin American Studies Program. He is the author of Historia Rebeldes (2006) and Contra la allegoría (2011), and the essay Bolaño salvaje (co-writen with Edmundo Paz Soldán, Candaya, 2013). His first novel, The Antiquarian, has been translated into English on the Black Cat label of Grove/Atlantic (2014) and into Turkish, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese; it will be translated in Russian (Arkadia). To live under (Vivir abajo, 2019) was in the short list of The Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize and has been translated in French (Christian Bourgois, 2026) and in German (Droschl, 2025).
His last book has been published in 2024 by Candaya : Miniscule (Fiction, 2024)
