Literaktum | festival of letter and languages | 2009 25-30 mayo
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Andr�s Neuman /
Buenos Aires, 1977 /
Born in 1977, Andr�s Neuman spent his early childhood in Buenos Aires. He relocated to Spain with his musician parents, spending his youth in Granada, where he went to university and later taught Latin American literature. At the age of 22 he wrote his first novel Bariloche (Anagrama), which was shortlisted for the Herralde Award and rated one of the year's ten best novels by the magazine El Cultural. His later novels are titled La vida en las ventanas (Espasa), Una vez Argentina (Anagrama) and El viajero del siglo (Alfaguara), the latter of which won the 2009 Alfaguara Award and was ranked among the top five novels of the year in the Spanish language, according to critics of El Pa�s and El Mundo. He has also written collections of stories, aphorisms, travel books and poetry. Among other awards, Andres Neuman has won Spain's Hiperion Poetry Prize.
