DIEGO GÓMEZ PICKERING

Diego Gómez Pickering (Mexico City, 1977)

He is a writer, diplomat, and journalist. His career started as reporter and staff writer for Mexico's Reforma newspaper. During the last couple of decades his bylines include The Washington Post, The Independent, El País, La Jornada, Letras Libres, The Huffington Post, Nexos, Proceso, Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, Gatopardo, and National Geographic Traveler. He has been posted as foreign correspondent in various countries across the Americas, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East.

He is the author of Juan sin nombre, la historia del negro conquistador (2026) and La foto del recuerdo (2006) -novels-, Un mundo de historias (2017) -a collection of short stories-, P (2022) and El estado que guardan las cosas (2026) -poetry compilations-. Furthermore, he has authored five non-fiction books: Los jueves en Nairobi (2010), Diario de Londres (2019), Cartas de Nueva York, crónicas desde la tumba del imperio (2020), La primavera de Damasco (2013), and Africa, radiografía de un continente (2023). His writings have been translated into English, French, Catalan, Swahili, Arabic, Tagalog, and Russian. He was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by the United Kingdom and an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of Antonio José de Irisarri by Guatemala.