Emiliano Monge
Mexican writer
Emiliano Monge (born 6 January 1978) is a Mexican short story writer and novelist. Three of his novels, The Arid Sky, Among the Lost and What goes unsaid have been translated into English.
Biography and books
Born in Mexico City on 6 January 1978, Emiliano Monge studied political science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and taught there as a professor. He moved to Barcelona and embarked on a career as a writer. His short story collection Arrastrar esa sombra was a finalist for the 2008 Prix Antonin-Artaud, and his novel Morirse de memoria was a finalist for the same award in 2010, winning Monge the Jaén Prize for novels. His works have also been published in La Jornada, Letras Libres and the Hoja por Hoja book review of Reforma.
El cielo árido
Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue commented on Monge's El cielo árido (2012), and placed him in the group of "Mexico's new writers" (Enrigue sees a watershed in Felipe Calderón start in 2006 of the Mexican drug war) who are less inclined to employ allegory, and who are much more open in the way they represent the world they inherited... Monge published an extraordinary novel last year, El cielo árido (The barren sky), in which the chaos that violence brings to people's lives is rendered by a desperate narrative device: as the plot moves forward, the narrator changes the names of the characters because nothing is what it seems.
El cielo árido was translated into English by Thomas Bunstead and published by Restless Books; the main character is "a ruthless outlaw turned even more ruthless head of a small state ministry". It received positive reviews in the English press, with one critic praising his prose as "crisp" and commenting on "his nonlinear narration [which] creates a heightened sense of unpredictability".
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