Agustín Fernández Mallo Explained

Agustín Fernández Mallo (A Coruña, 1967) is a physicist and Spanish writer. He lives in Palma de Mallorca. He is a member of the so-called Nocilla Generation.

Although he works as a physicist, he also collaborates with cultural magazines such as Lateral, Contrastes, La Bolsa de Pipas, La fábrica and Anónima.

Works

Poetry

• Yo siempre regreso a los pezones y al punto 7 del Tractatus (I Always Return To Nipples And Point 7 of the Tractatus), 2001
• Creta, lateral travelling, 2004
• Joan Fontaine Odisea (mi deconstrucción) (Joan Fontaine Odyssey (My Deconstruction)), 2005
• Carne de Píxel (Pixel Meat), 2008

Fiction

• The Things We've Seen, 2021
• El hacedor (de Borges) Remake (The Maker (of Borges) Remake) (Unpublished)
• The Nocilla Trilogy^[1]
  • Nocilla Dream, 2006
  • Nocilla Experience, 2008
  • Nocilla Lab, 2009
• Limbo, Alfaguara, 2014

Essays

• Postpoesía. Hacia un nuevo paradigma, 2009

Prizes

• First Prize Café Món for Creta, lateral travelling.
• Nocilla Dream was designated the best novel of the year in Spanish language by Quimera magazine.
• Nocilla Dream was chosen by the El Cultural supplement, of Spanish newspaper El Mundo, as one of the best ten novels of 2006.
• Carne de píxel, Ciudad de Burgos Poetry Award (2007)
• Premio Biblioteca Breve for Trilogía de la guerra (2018)^[2]

External links

• El hombre que salió de la tarta · Agustín Fernández Mallo's Blog
• Interview with Agustín Fernández Mallo

Notes and References

1. Mallo A., (2019), transl. by T. Bunstead, NY:Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2. News: Fernández Mallo gana el Premio Biblioteca Breve con 'Trilogía de la guerra' . Fernández Mallo Wins the Premio Biblioteca Breve with 'Trilogía de la guerra' . . Barcelona . Spanish . 5 February 2018 . 5 September 2018.