Edmundo Paz Soldán has written fourteen works of fiction, including La materia del deseo, El delirio de Turing, Rio fugitive and Billie Ruth. He is also an essayist, journalist and translator, and co-author (with Alberto Fuguet) of Se nabla español, an anthology of new Latin American fiction. He has received Bolivia’s National Book Award, the Juan Rulfo Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and teaches at Cornell University. His work has been translated into eleven languages.