Andrés Neuman

Andrés Neuman (born January 28, 1977) is a Spanish-Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger.

The son of Argentine immigrants musicians, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a mother of Italian and Spanish descent and a father of German-Jewish descent. He spent his childhood in Buenos Aires, although he currently lives in Granada, Spain. He has a degree in Spanish Philology from the University of Granada, where he also taught Latin American literature. He holds both Argentine and Spanish citizenships.

Through a vote called by the Hay Festival, Neuman was selected among the most outstanding young Latin American authors, being included on the Bogotá39 list [22]. He was also selected by Granta magazine in Spanish and English as one of the 22 Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. His fourth novel, the award-winning Traveller of the Century, first to be published in English, was selected among the best books of the year by The Guardian [23], The Independent [24] and Financial Times [25]. This novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, achieving a Special Commendation from the jury; as well as shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, being named one of "the two frontrunners who so sure-footedly outpaced the strong pack", according to an article written by the jury for The Guardian. His next book translated into English was the novel Talking to Ourselves, longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award [26], shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize [27], and selected as number 1 among the Top 20 books of the year by Typographical Era. His collection of stories translated into English, The Things We Don't Do, was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and won the Firecracker Award for fiction, given by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses with the American Booksellers Association. His most recent work in English is the travel book about Latin America, How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America.

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