Jorge Volpi

JORGE VOLPI was born in the tumultuous year of 1968, in Mexico City. He studied law and literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and received a PhD in Spanish philology from The University of Salamanca in Spain. He has won many awards both in his native Mexico and in Europe. To date, two of his novels have been translated into English—In Search of Klingsor, which was an international bestseller, and Season of Ash, which appeared in 2009 to much acclaim. Volpi is equally well regarded as a nonfiction writer. He has written an as yet untranslated book on the events surrounding the Mexico City Olympics in 1968 and many widely read essays, which have appeared in both Spanish and English. His scholarly and legal background inform these essays as much as his fiction, lending his work a political and intellectual weight few authors can manage. What’s more, he achieves this gravity without overtaking the dramatic joys of a good narrative. To read more, check out Season of Ash at Amazon.