The Barcelona-born author twists the genre between humor and horror with 'El año del Búfalo'. The Mexican Daniel Saldaña Paris is a finalist with 'El baile y el fuego'.

The Mexican Daniel Saldaña Paris is a finalist with 'El baile y el fuego'.

Javier Pérez Andújar (Sant Adrià de Besos, 1965), wizard of popular culture and illusionist of literature, wrote – and pardon our redundancy – a phenomenal work with “La noche fenomenal,” which arrived in bookstores in 2019.  Now he is the winner of the 39th edition of the Herralde de Novela Award, with his latest work, “El año del buffalo.”

The Mexican Daniel Saldaña París has been a finalist with 'El baile y el fuego', set in a city of Cuernavaca ravaged by fires and connected -not by accident- with “Bajo el volcan,” (Under the Volcano) by Malcolm Lowry. "I've always wanted to be a Mexican writer," Pérez Andújar burst suddenly. "Although, in reality, the closest thing to a Mexican writer is a Charnego”, (term used to refer to the children of immigrants) adds the author for whom there is nothing more serious than taking almost everything as joke.

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