Rodrigo Rey Rosa
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Rodrigo Rey Rosa

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Rodrigo Rey Rosa was born in Guatemala in 1958. He emigrated to New York in 1980, and in 1982 he moved to Morocco. American expatriate writer Paul Bowles, with whom Rey Rosa had been corresponding, translated his first three books into English. Rey Rosa has based many of his writings and stories on legends and myths that are indigenous to Latin America and North Africa. Out of all of his many works, seven have been translated into English: The Beggar's Knife, Dust on her Tongue, The Pelcari Project, The Good Cripple, The African Shore,Severina, and now, Chaos, A Fable. In 2004, Rey Rosa was awarded the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature, from Guatemala, and in 2015 the Ibero-American José Donoso Prize. He lives in Guatemala City.
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