Jorge Comensal
From 21 April to 30 June 2021

Born in 1987, Jorge Comensal studied literature and linguistics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has contributed to a number of magazines and reviews, including Letras Libres, Vice, Este País and Tierra Adentro. He has also received grants from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas and the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. His first novel, a tragicomic fable that delights with its caustic humor, was published in Spanish in 2016 and has been translated into several languages. The English version, titled The mutations, was brought out by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2019. A book of essays Yonquis de las letras (La Huerta Grande) was published in 2017.