Eduardo Halfon
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Eduardo Halfon

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Eduardo Halfon was born in Guatemala City. He moved to the United States with his family at the age of ten, went to school in Florida, studied Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University, and then returned to Guatemala to teach Literature during eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. In 2007, he was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá. He has published ten books of fiction, and has received in Spain the prestigious José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel. He was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue the story of “The Polish Boxer”, which is the first of his novels to be published in English, by Bellevue Literary Press.

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