Sealtiel Alatriste

MEXICO, 1949

Born in Mexico City and studied Spanish Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Mexico. Editor and writer. His fiction is situated within humoristic melodrama and the aesthetics of Mexican cinematography of the mid-twentieth century. Until 2012 he was Coordinator of Cultural Diffusion at UNAM.

In 2011 he won the Xavier Villaurrutia Award for the essay Geografía de la ilusión (Geography of illusion) and the novel Ensayo sobre la ilusión (Essay on illusion).

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PUBLISHED BY: Spain TUSQUETS / ESPASA CALPE / ALFAGUARA  | Argentina, Chile & Uruguay SUDAMERICANA / SANTILLANA | Mexico & Central America PLANETA / TUSQUETS / ALFAGUARA / JOAQUÍN MORTIZ

By Sealtiel Alatriste

  • Demonios de la culpa

  • Essay about the Illusion

    NOVEL, 2011

    XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA LITERARY AWARD 2011 Miguel Horacio Dreamfield goes to a private screening of the film Casablanca. Him bearing witness of those imagined lives crushes his idea of the...

  • Geography of the Illusion

    ESSAY, 2011

    XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA LITERARY AWARD 2011 Are illusions chains or wings longing for freedom? This book of essays comes from the concern to discover the meaning of illusions and the power...

  • Carmine Kisses

    NOVEL, 2008

    Humor, mixing of genres, narrative irony, literary allusions and a new, penetrating reflection on the myth of Don Juan are the main ingredients of this novel by Alatriste. Set in an imaginary...

  • Conjura en la Arcadia

    NOVEL, 2003

  • El daño

    NOVEL, 2000

     

  • Verdad de amor

    NOVEL, 1994

  • Por vivir en quinto patio

    NOVEL, 1985

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