Margo Glantz (Mexico City, 1930) is the author of "The Arabian calories, dietary novel", "Two hundred blue whales", "Wreck Syndrome" (Villaurrutia Award), "Landslide Zone", "The Trail" (Herralde Award finalist and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize) and "Story of a woman who walked through life with designer shoes." He has won the Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, National University Award and the National Book Award. She is professor emeritus at the UNAM and has been a visiting professor at various universities: La Jolla, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley, London, Siena, Harvard, Barcelona, ​​Buenos Aires, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin ...
He has published numerous essays on Mexican and comparative literature, among others, "Intervention and pretext" or "Language in hand."