Juan Pablo Villalobos
Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He studied marketing and Spanish literature. He has written on topics as diverse as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of César Aira and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations. He now lives in Brazil and has two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. Down the Rabbit Hole was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award 2011, and his latest book, Quesadillas, was published in 2013.
Juan Pablo Villalobos on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Mario Levrero | Best Untranslated Writers
Juan Pablo Villalobos
‘I knew he was a ‘strange’ writer, unclassifiable, with a boundless imagination, who was creating one of the most intriguing, thought-provoking bodies of work in the Spanish language.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Juan Pablo Villalobos | Podcast
Juan Pablo Villalobos & Rachael Allen
Juan Pablo Villalobos on class struggle in Mexico, parodying Mexican identity and the difficulty of translation.