Vicente Alfonso

Vicente Alfonso was born in Torreón, Mexico, in 1977 into a family of miners. He is a journalist and the author of the novels The Remains of Saint Lawrence, published by Ikaros in 2017 (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Prize 2015) and *Partitura para mujer muerta* (National Noir Prize), as well as the short story collections *Contar las noches* (María Luisa Puga National Short Story Prize) and *El síndrome de Esquilo*. He has been a fellow of the renowned Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas and the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Coahuila on numerous occasions. His journalistic work has garnered many awards (AFA 2003, Coahuila 2007, First Ibero-American Prize for Journalism ‘Cities of Peace’ and the Armando Fuentes Prize for Cultural Journalism). He is co-editor of the cultural supplement ‘Confabulario’ of the Mexican newspaper El Universal. His works have been translated into German, Italian, Czech, Turkish and Greek.