Martín Kohan

One of the most important contemporary writers from Argentina, born in 1967 in Buenos Aires. Author of eleven novels, volumes of short stories and numerous essays. In 2007, he won the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela for his book Ciencias morales, in which – like in many of his other novels – he attempts to settle the score with his country’s authoritarian past and the complicity of ordinary citizens in the violence. One of his novels, Dos veces junio was translated into Polish by Barbara Jaroszuk and released in Poland by the Wydawnictwo Filtry publishing house. Martín Kohan works as a professor of literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires.