Ignacio Padilla

Mexican novelist Ignacio Padilla was born in 1968 and raised in Mexico City. After an MA in English at Edinburgh University, he researched a doctorate on Cervantes in Salamanca, Spain. Later, he taught Spanish literature at the Universidad de Puebla in Mexico City, also writing for literary magazines. His debut novel, La catedral de los ahogados, won Mexico's Juan Rulfo prize for a new author. It was followed by the short stories of Subterraneos and the novel Si volviesen sus majestades. In 1996, Padilla and a group of colleagues (Jorge Volpi, Eloy Urroz, Miguel Angel Palou, Ricardo Chavez) launched the manifesto of the "Crack" group, which aims to renew Mexican fiction. His third novel, Amphitryon, won the 2000 Premio Primavera in Spain, and has just been published in English by Scribner as Shadow without a Name. In 2000, Padilla was appointed as Mexico's cultural attaché in London. Fluent in seven languages, Padilla is currently based in Mexico. 

''There's a new, cool Mexican wave breaking, in fiction and in film. Ignacio Padilla - novelist and diplomat - is riding it...'' The Independent.

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