About Edmundo Paz Soldán
José Edmundo Paz-Soldán Ávila is a Bolivian writer. His work is a prominent example of the Latin American literary movement known as McOndo, in which the magical realism of previous Latin American authors is supplanted by modern realism, often with a technological focus. His work has won several awards. He has lived in the United States since 1991, and has taught literature at Cornell University since 1997. A year before graduating, his first collection of short stories, Las máscaras de la nada, was published in Cochabamba. The novel won the Erich Guttentag Prize, and was published in 1992.
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