Yuri Herrera
Biography
Yuri Herrera was born in Actopan in 1970. He studied politics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, took a master’s in creative writing at the University of Texas in El Paso and a doctorate in Hispanic Language and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He had considerable success with his first novel and has gone on to write novels and children’s books.
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Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera
Interview
Author Yuri Herrera on ‘the American problem that Mexico is suffering’
Yuri Herrera (in Spanish)
Bibliography
2004 Trabajos del reino (Kingdom Cons) (novel)
2007 ¡Éste es mi nahual! (children’s)
2009 Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (Signs Preceding the End of the World) (novel)
2012 Los ojos de Lía (childen’s)
2013 La transmigración de los cuerpos (The Transmigration of Bodies) (novel)
2015 Un capitán cimarrón (comic)
2018 El incendio de la mina El Bordo (A Silent Fury : The El Bordo Mine Fire) (history)
2020 Diez Planetas (Ten Planets) (stories)
2022 La estación del pantano (Season of the Swamp (novel)