This Saturday he passed away at the age of 71 Marcellus CohenArgentine writer, translator and literary critic considered the greatest innovator of the Spanish-language fantasy genre in recent decades.

The creator of a rich body of work, full of inventiveness, skill and experimentation, Cohen he has published twenty novels and volumes of short stories.

Among his own short stories, essays and novels published stand out The country of the electric lady (1984), The end of the same (1992), The Testament of O’Jaral (1995), Where I was not (2006), Casa de Ottro (2009), Balada (2011 ), Prosaic music (2014), Something else (2015, Stealth), Notes on literature and the sound of things (2016), A year without spring (2017).

Considered one of the most prestigious translators into Spanish, translated Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Shakespeare, Alice Munro, Clarice Lispector, JA Baker, JM Coetzee, M. John Harrison, Julia Armfield, among many others. Together with Graciela Speranza, she directs the digital review magazine Otra Parte Semanal.

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