Agustín Fernández Mallo

Invitado de Honor

(La Coruña, 1967) is a physicist and writer, and his literature has been translated into more than ten languages. Critics and readers alike in each country note the high literary quality and conceptual openness to other symbolic spaces and other ways of telling our present.

His latest novel is Madre de corazón atómico (Seix Barral). He is also the author of the novels El libro de todos los amores (Seix Barral); Trilogía de la guerra (Seix Barral, Biblioteca Breve Award, in English The Things We've Seen, English PEN Award, published by Fitzcarraldo and FSG); Proyecto Nocilla (Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, Nocilla Lab, European Literature Award 2022, presented in the Netherlands); El hacedor (de Borges), remake and Limbo (Alfaguara).

His poetry collections, some of which have received awards, are collected in Ya nadie se llamará como yo (Seix Barral).

As a non-fiction author, he has written Postpoesía, hacia un nuevo paradigma, shortlisted for an Anagrama de Ensayo Prize; Teoría general de la basura (Galaxia Gutenberg, Award Premio Cálamo Extraordinario); La mirada imposible (Wunderkammer); La forma de la multitud (Galaxia Gutenberg, 1st Award Premio de Ensayo Eugenio Trías), and co-author, together with Bernardí Roig and Fernando Castro Flórez, of Wittgenstein, arquitecto (Galaxia Gutenberg).

Other activities involving the participant:

In the lost footsteps of the family