Rodolfo Rabanal was born in Buenos Aires in 1940 exerted journalism in various local and foreign media, as a columnist, editor and correspondent. Between 1981 and 1982 he worked as a translator for UNESCO in Paris. He has received Fulbright (1979) grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1988). He is currently a columnist for "The Nation." He has published: Paragraph (novel, 1982), Passenger (novel, 1984) Do not go to Genoa in winter (stories, 1988), The sentimental factor (novel, 1990), Bright (1993) and Appointment in Morocco (novel, 1995). By Adriana editor Hidalgo has published The dangers of this (stories, 1999) The barbarous coast (essays, 2000) and The Russian woman (novel, 2004) In 1987 he wrote the screenplay of Gombrowicz or seduction, which was made ​​into a film by Alberto Fischerman. His work has been translated into English, French and Polish.