Mario Bellatín

Mario Bellatín is currently the director of the Dynamic School of Writers in Mexico City. Born in Mexico to Peruvian immigrants, he spent part of his childhood in Peru and studied film in Cuba. He is the author of several books, including Chinese Checkers, Beauty Salon, and Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction (translated by David Shook). Bellatín was quoted in the New York Times as saying, “To me literature is a game, a search for ways to break through borders. But in my work the rules of the game are always obvious, the guts are exposed, and you can see what is being cooked up.”