Tryno Maldonado

«His sensitively rendered portraits of the missing, assembled through letters and interviews with their families and friends, can make this a difficult book both to pick up and to put down.» Lauren Markham, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS.

"Tryno Maldonado is one of the strongest cards of contemporary Mexican narrative." Enrique Serna, LETRAS LIBRES.

Considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices in contemporary Mexican literature. He was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Colombian magazine Gatopardo in 2006.

His work appears in various national and international anthologies. He has published the collection of stories Themes and Variations (among the best books of 2003 according to the newspaper Reforma) and the novels Red Vienna (2005), Hunting Season for the Black Lion (2009), The Catastrophe Theory (2012), the short stories book Heavy Metals (2014), and Ayotzinapa. The Face of the Disappeared (2015; the chronicle of what occurred in that region, where he moved and lived for four months to to merge with the families of the young people whose lives ended in a drama still unexplained.)

He organized and edited the anthology Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: New Generation of Mexican Writers (2008) and has contributed to some of the most important publications in Mexico and part of his work is included in national and international anthologies.

"The Catastrophe Theory is not another simple novel... is one of the top three or four relevant books of its generation." Rafael Lemus, LETRAS LIBRES.

"Tryno Maldonado achieves with extraordinary mastery the intertwining and fusion of literature that is fun and even delicate, with an irreverent, subversive, ferocious and yet simultaneously radiant character." Sergio Pitol.