Francisco Ángeles
Perú, 1977
Francisco Ángeles is a writer, critic, journalist and professor. He has published four novels: La línea en medio del cielo (The Line Through the Sky, 2008); Austin, Texas 1979 (2014); Plagio (Plagiarism, 2016) and Adiós a la revolución (Farewell to the revolution, 2019) as well as the story collection Hollywood en doble función (A Hollywood Double Feature, 2015) co-authored with Fernando Ampuero and the visual artist Jugo Gástrico. Over the last decade he has regularly contributed to major Peruvian media outlets; written over a hundred reviews and interviews; founded the literary website Porta9, the first to regularly promote interviews with Spanish-language writers on the internet; published academic works in journals in the United States, Spain, Colombia and Peru, and since 2005 has been co-editor of the literary magazine El Hablador. In 2011 he received the Benjamin Franklin Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania where he spent five years writing a doctorate thesis on Latin American guerrillas in the second half of the 20th Century. He currently lives in Philadelphia, where he gives classes in literature and Latin American culture at Bryn Mawr College.
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By Francisco Ángeles
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NOVEL, 2019
Emilio, a Peruvian immigrant living in Philadelphia is a professor at a prestigious university who has a passionate affair with Sophia, a young upper class student seduced by his compelling...
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NOVEL, 2014
A man has just separated from his wife. Distraught, he starts therapy. One afternoon, in the doctor's waiting room, he meets Adriana, a supposed patient who turns out to be a manipulative young...
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NOVEL, 2008
An old man who works at a funeral home, a group of conspirators who aren't sure whether they're really conspirators or not, a doctor who tells stories about disappearances before disappearing...
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FICTION, 2016
Peru is suffering under the most corrupt regime in its recent history. In the gardens of a university, two men, driven by a series of readings and unsatisfied desires, plan a death. But not just...
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