Marcelo Damiani was born in the city of Cordoba in 1969, but in 1981 moved to Buenos Aires. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA. In 1995 he published his first novel, Goodbye, Little. He has also worked in the magazine spaces, Clarín and Página / 12 Argentina newspapers and Metropolitan of Chile. His stories have appeared in the magazine Yagrumal of Puerto Rico and Lateral Barcelona. The meaning of life won the Prize of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998.