Guillermo Martínez
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Guillermo Martínez (born 29 July 1962) is an Argentinian writer.
Martínez was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. He gained a PhD in mathematical logic at the University of Buenos Aires, where he currently teaches.
After his degree in Argentina, he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford. His most successful novel has been The Oxford Murders, written in 2003. In the same year, he was awarded the Planeta Prize for this novel, which has been translated into a number of languages. The book is due to appear as a film in 2007, directed by Alex de la Iglesia.
[edit] Books
- Vast Hell (Infierno grande, 1989) — short stories
- Regarding Roderer (Acerca de Roderere, 1993) — novel
- The Woman of the Master (La mujer del maestro, 1998) — novel
- Borges and Mathematics(Borges y las matemáticas, 2003) — essays
- The Oxford Murders (Crímenes imperceptibles, 2003) — novel
- The Immortality Formula (La fórmula de la inmortalidad, 2005) — essays
[edit] References
- Williams. Michael, Fiction by numbers: Interview with Guillermo Martinez, Cherwell, 27 January 2006.
[edit] External links
- Guillermo Martínez website (Spanish)
- Biography (English)
- Fantastic Fiction entry
