Guillermo Fadanelli was born in Mexico City in 1963. He studied engineering and worked, among other things, as a real estate agent and muleteer, as a Christmas tree vendor in New York and at a confectionary shop in Madrid. He began his literary career in 1988 and in 1989 founded the underground Mexico City journal “Moho”, of which is he is editor in chief, before shortly afterwards self-publishing his first novel, “Cuentos Mejicanos” (1991; t: Mexican Tales) in Madrid. The short story collection “El día que la vea la voy a matar” (1992; t: The day I see her I will kill her) came out in Mexico. Since then he has published a large number of novels and stories, some of them at the eponimously named Moho publishing house he founded in 1995. Fadanelli writes for several magazines and fanzines in Mexico, Spain and Chile. There are two blogs by Fadanelli, one is at www.fadanelli.blogspot.com, in which some of his stories are published; and the other one is at www.moho.ws, where he presents examples of his publications and magazines. He has, in addition, emerged as a video artist and translator from French.
Fadanelli is considered a cult writer for Latin America’s young generation. In a fresh, irreverent tone he describes life in Mexico City in a drastic and unsentimental way. “In Fadanelli’s stories crude language and situations that take place on the knife’s edge are devoid of all rhetorical emphasis and ceremonious trappings in order to enter into mere necessity,” wrote critic Sergio González Rodríguez. “La otra cara de Rock Hudson” (1997; t: Rock Hudson’s other face) depicts in a little over a hundred pages a sprightly, anxious young man’s transformation into a gangster and provides a portrait of a debauched metropolis. The vicious circle of drugs, prostitution and violence is presented in a low key, artful manner in which the opening and closing scenes parallel one another: the young man who observes a killer and drug dealer with abhorrence and fascination evolves, unremarked, into his successor and spitting image. Fadanelli was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura and the IMPAC CONARTE ITESM for his novel. In his novel “Lodo” (2002), honoured by the Premio Nacional de Literatura Colima and nominated for the renowned Rómulo Gallegos Prize, Fadanelli tells the story of an old, cynical philosophy professor who provides a hiding place for a young murderess whom he desires. Most recently Fadanelli published the novel “Educar a los topos” (2006; Educating the moles), about the education of young children at a military school in the imploding Mexico City of the early seventies.
Fadanelli’s novels “¿Te veré en el desayuno?” (1999; t: Will I see you at breakfast?) and “Clarisa ya tiene un muerto” (2000; t: Clarissa already has a dead man) have been made into films. The author is currently a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin programme (2007/08) of the German Academic Exchange Service.

Guillermo Fadanelli online: fadanelli.blogspot.de

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