Bef, Bernardo Fernández
MÉXICO, 1972
Bernardo Fernández, aka Bef, is a writer, story teller and graphic designer. He was born in Ciudad de México in 1972. He has published the novels Tiempo de alacranes (Scorpion Times, 2005), Gel azul (Blue Gel, 2006), Ladrón de sueños (The Dream Thief, 2008), Ojos de lagarto (Snake Eyes, 2009), Hielo Negro (Black Ice, 2011) and Cuello Blanco (White Collar, 2013); the short-stories collections ¡¡Bzzzzzzt!! Ciudad interfase (¡¡Bzzzzzzt!! Interface City, 1998) and El llanto de los niños muertos (The Crying of the Dead Children, 2008); the children's books Error de programación (Programming Error, 1997), Cuento de hadas para conejos (Fairy Tales for Rabbits, 2007), Groar and Soy el robot (I Am the Robot, 2010); and the graphic novels Pulpo cómics (Octopus Comics, 2004), Monorama (2007) and Monorama 2 (2009).
He is one of the best young Mexican writers of our times and he has won several prizes, such as the national novel prize Otra Vuelta de Tuerca (Mexico), the prize Memorial Silverio Cañada for best first crime novel (Spain), Ignotus prize of the Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror.
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By Bef, Bernardo Fernández
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CHILDREN, 2022
If you had three wishes, what would you wish for? One afternoon when Harlana was playing on her tablet, she discovered an app that can grant them with a fairy included! Let's discover together...
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CHILDREN, 2022
Sofia and her kitty Luna love to roam the Multiverse. Throughout their travels they have gone to worlds where there are still dinosaurs, or inhabitants that can change shape again and again. In...
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Monster under the Bed Requests Child to Scare
CHILDREN'S BOOK, 2021
A succession of illustrated micro-stories in which the monster under the bed is explored in all its possibilities. Good and bad monsters, scary monsters, monsters that sleep under the bed of other...
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The Beast We Inhabit. A Járcor Case
NOVEL, 2021
Mexico City, November 2019 The Beast We Inhabit. A Járcor Case The leader of the Constanza Cartel, Lizzy Zubiaga: behind bars. Her nemesis, Detective Andrea Mijangos: disappeared. But in...
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Maria Speaks. A Graphic Novel about Autism
GRAPHIC NOVEL, 2018
There are two voices in this charming novel. One belongs to Bef, who tells a tale that will be familiar to anyone close to a differently abled child. The other to Maria, who speaks with the power...
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From One to Ten and Back Again
CHILDREN'S BOOK, 2017
Robots, bears, devils, platypuses, monsters, soldiers, an octopus, a girl and lots more. This is a book for girls and boys who are just beginning to learn to count. One of the most talented...
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YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL, 2017
Maria is a 13 year old girl having a bad time at school and at home, where her parents' constant squabbling is ruining her life. She's very good at drawing but not great at maths. And she doesn't...
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NOVEL, 2016
Thwarted in her attempts to create a global financial network for criminals and in mourning over the death of her godfather, El Paisano , Lizzy Zubiaga returns to the scene of global crime having...
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Scenarios for the End of the World
SHORT STORIES, 2015
A report on a clandestine extraterrestrial invasion and its influence on the Mexican government. A conqueror of new planets who can commit genocide at the touch of a button. An immigrant worker...
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GRAPHIC NOVEL, 2014
William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949 accompanied by his wife Joan, his stepdaughter Julie and Billy, his young son. Destined to become the most important experimental writer in the...
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NOVEL, 2014.
Zombi, a tall, well-built young man, and Roque, a small, shy nerd, have been friends since they were little. They both go to Germán Butze High School and they have the same problems as all...
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NOVEL NOIR, 2013
After Black Ice (Grijalbo Prize 2011) detective Andrea Mijangos and Lizzy Zubiaga, the queen of synthetic drugs, return to face each other once more. Oscar Salgado, owner of Blue Chip...
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NOVEL, 2011
GRIJALBO NOVEL PRIZE 2011 Lizzy Zubiaga runs a prison in Constanza. Andrea Mijangos is a public attorney. Although they don't yet know it, they are tied together by bloody events with...
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CHILDREN'S BOOK, 2010
Incredible! If you sent a picture of you to marionettes.com, you received a robot exactly like you by mail. The robot then did all you didn't want to do: your homework, tidy up your room, eat...
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NOVEL, 2009
1923. A city snakes under the Mexicali soil. There, Pi Ying, an old Chinese opium and alcohol trafficker, has kept a closely-guarded secret ever since his flight from Shanghai many years ago,...
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SCIENCE FICTION, 2008
The twisted mind of Doctor Ventosa - a mad scientist - has come up with a perverse plan: to give children chilling nightmares via a virtual reality video game console of his own design, and to...
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SCIENCE FICTION, 2006
Blue Gel takes us to a world where the most indicative symbol of someone's status, wealth and power is the amount of time they spend in virtual reality, for which it is necessary to submerge...
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SCIENCE FICTION, 2006
Somewhere out there in a dark, silent corner of the cosmos, the dream of the most powerful man on Earth, Cuauhtémoc K. Kobayashi, continues apace: a completely autonomous spaceship...
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