Tryno Maldonado
Tryno Maldonado (Zacatecas, México, 1977). Considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices in contemporary Mexican literature. He was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Colombian magazine Gatopardo in 2006.
His work appears in various national and international anthologies. He has published the collection of stories Themes and Variations (among the best books of 2003 according to the newspaper Reforma) and the novels Red Vienna (2005), Hunting Season for the Black Lion (2009), The Catastrophe Theory (2012), the short stories book Heavy Metals (2014), and Ayotzinapa. The Face of the Disappeared (2015; the chronicle of what occurred in that region, where he moved and lived for four months to to merge with the families of the young people whose lives ended in a drama still unexplained.)
He organized and edited the anthology Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: New Generation of Mexican Writers (2008) and has contributed to some of the most important publications in Mexico and part of his work is included in national and international anthologies. He worked for a while in a gold and silver mine in the Sierra Madre..
"Tryno Maldonado is one of the strongest cards
of contemporary Mexican narrative."
ENRIQUE SERNA, LETRAS LIBRES
“Tryno Maldonado achieves with extraordinary mastery the intertwining ans fusion of literature that is fun and even delicate, with an irreverent, subversive, ferocious abd yet simultaneously character. A prince of sex."
SERGIO PITOL
"The Catastrophe Theory is not another simple novel... is one of the top three or four relevant books of its generation"
RAFAEL LEMUS, LETRAS LIBRES
“Creía Anselmo que una de las grandes confusiones de su tiempo era la de entender el amor de pareja como el suceso pedestre de una persona que se une a otra para curar la apabullante soledad y el vacío del nuevo siglo que, de otra forma, resultarían intolerables.”