Luis Gusmán was born in Buenos Aires in 1944. Novelist and short story writer, he has published El frasquito (1973, 2009, Edhasa); Brightness (1975); Veiled body (1978); In the heart of June (1983, Boris Vian Prize); The promised death (1986); The darkest of the river (1990); The music of Frankie (1993); Villa (1996, 2006, Edhasa); Tennessee (1997), taken to the cinema by Mario Levin with the title of Sotto voce, Hotel Eden (1999); You have not lost your name or died (2002, 2012, Edhasa); The furrier (2007, Edhasa) and the dead do not lie (Edhasa, 2010). He is also the author of an autobiography, La rueda de Virgilio (1989, 2009, Edhasa) and three volumes of essays: La ficción computado (1998), Epitafios. The right to written death (2005) and The Freudian question (2011). Several of his books have been translated into Portuguese.