Pablo Baler

Pablo Baler was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1967) and is a current resident of Los Angeles, California. Pablo Baler is a novelist, art critic, and scholar. A graduate of Stanford University and U. C. Berkeley, Baler is Professor of Latin-American Literature at California State University, Los Angeles. Pablo Baler is the author of the multi-award novel Circa (Galerna, 1999), Chabrancán (Ediciones del Camino, 2020), El lejano desoriente (Rialta, 2022), and most recently Gilroy's Gloryhole, which was awarded the New American Fiction Prize (forthcoming March 2027 by New American Press). Baler is also the author of Los Sentidos de la distorsión: fantasias epistemológicas del neobarroco latinoamericano (Corregidor 2008), an oft-quoted essay on neobaroque aesthetics, also available in English as Latin American Neo-Baroque (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). In addition, Baler is the editor of and contributor to The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-First Century (Bloomsbury, 2013), a collection of essays written by a broad range of authors about the aesthetic sensibility that will define our times. Baler’s collection of short stories, La burocracia mandarina, was published by Lumme Editor in San Paulo, Brazil (2013, Portuguese edition, 2017).