Mercedes Halfon was born in Buenos Aires. She has published three novels, six poetry collections and one work of non-fiction. With Laura Citarella, she directed the film Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi, which won the Best Director Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and the Silver Dove Award at the DOK Leipzig Festival. She curated the theatrical cycle ‘Invocaciones’, held at the Centro Cultural San Martín and the Teatro Nacional Cervantes. She teaches in the Writing Arts program at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes and writes for the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12, among other outlets. Her most recent work is the literary biography Outsider Everywhere: Witold Gombrowicz in Argentina, her first book to appear in English.

‘In the 143 lively pages, adroitly translated by Rahul Bery, and divided into short chapters, she intertwines two threads. The first is Gombrowicz’s life in Argentina, one of the oddest exile stories, even by the standards of the 20th century. The second is how Argentina received him…. For those familiar with Gombrowicz, Halfon’s book is a quirky postscript to his legend. For readers who have not yet discovered him, it can serve as a way into his work.’— Magdalena Miecznicka, Financial Times

Mercedes Halfon was born in Buenos Aires. She has published three novels, six poetry collections and one work of non-fiction. With Laura Citarella, she directed the film Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi, which won the Best Director Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and the Silver Dove Award at the DOK Leipzig Festival. She curated the theatrical cycle ‘Invocaciones’, held at the Centro Cultural San Martín and the Teatro Nacional Cervantes. She teaches in the Writing Arts program at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes and writes for the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12, among other outlets. Her most recent work is the literary biography Outsider Everywhere: Witold Gombrowicz in Argentina, her first book to appear in English.

‘In the 143 lively pages, adroitly translated by Rahul Bery, and divided into short chapters, she intertwines two threads. The first is Gombrowicz’s life in Argentina, one of the oddest exile stories, even by the standards of the 20th century. The second is how Argentina received him…. For those familiar with Gombrowicz, Halfon’s book is a quirky postscript to his legend. For readers who have not yet discovered him, it can serve as a way into his work.’— Magdalena Miecznicka, Financial Times

Mercedes Halfon was born in Buenos Aires. She has published three novels, six poetry collections and one work of non-fiction. With Laura Citarella, she directed the film Las poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi, which won the Best Director Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and the Silver Dove Award at the DOK Leipzig Festival. She curated the theatrical cycle ‘Invocaciones’, held at the Centro Cultural San Martín and the Teatro Nacional Cervantes. She teaches in the Writing Arts program at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes and writes for the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12, among other outlets. Her most recent work is the literary biography Outsider Everywhere: Witold Gombrowicz in Argentina, her first book to appear in English.

‘In the 143 lively pages, adroitly translated by Rahul Bery, and divided into short chapters, she intertwines two threads. The first is Gombrowicz’s life in Argentina, one of the oddest exile stories, even by the standards of the 20th century. The second is how Argentina received him…. For those familiar with Gombrowicz, Halfon’s book is a quirky postscript to his legend. For readers who have not yet discovered him, it can serve as a way into his work.’— Magdalena Miecznicka, Financial Times