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Rodrigo Blanco Calder n is a writer and editor. He has received various awards for his stories both inside and outside Venezuela. In 2007 he was invited to join the Bogota39 group, which brings together the best Latin American narrators under thirty-nine years old. In 2013 he was a guest writer on the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2014, his story ""Emuntorios"" was included in Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America, volume number 46 of the prestigious magazine McSweeney's. With his first novel, The Night, he won the 2016 Paris Rive Gauche Prize, the Critics Award in Venezuela and the 2019 Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize. Thomas Bunstead has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Maria Gainza, and Enrique Vila-Matas, and his own writing has appeared in publications such as Brixton Review of Books, LitHub, and The White Review. He is a former co-editor of the translation journal In Other Words and currently a Royal Literary Fellow, teaching at Aberystwyth University (2021-2023).
Rodrigo Blanco Calderon is one of the most ambitious narrative voices of his generation. His prose is violent and unrelenting. Effective. Sordid. -Karina Sainz Borgo
