Mateo GarcÃa Elizondo at his studio in Mexico City last month. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The Observer
The writer â and grandson of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez â on Mexican folklore, his early love of horror and learning to live with the familyâs literary legacy
Sat 22 May 2021 13.00 EDT
Mateo GarcÃa Elizondo, a 34-year-old writer from Mexico, may come from literary stock â his paternal grandfather is Colombian heavyweight Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and his maternal grandfather is Mexican literary giant Salvador Elizondo â but he is carving his own path at the forefront of a burgeoning scene in Spanish language literature. He has published a novel as well as written scripts for films and graphic novels. His writing is also included in Grantaâs
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Our Favorite International Reads of 2020 (and What We’ll Be Reading in 2021)
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This year, I m keeping my recommendations to the Southern Cone, perhaps out of the wistful recollection that as we face gray, blustery afternoons here in New York, warmer climes hold elsewhere.
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Escapes(Unnamed Press), set in a world in which competitive Scrabble is a globally televised craze under the thumb of the Scrafia (yes, a Scrabble mafia), is an uproarious novel staked on the final encounter between former world champs Florence Satine and Buenaventura Escobar in Argentina s Tigre Delta. Told from the alternating viewpoints of Satine and Escobar as they seek to flee the Scrafia s long arm, this clever novel reads something like the imagined result had Piglia turned his attentions to competitive board games. Tunnard s book is a satisfying read that takes Alfred Mosher Butt s tame pastime and turns it into a brisk, riveting jaunt across languages, crime scenes, and