Palinuro of Mexico

Fernando del Paso (1935-2018) was a Mexican author, diplomat, and academic. Del Paso studied medicine at the Autonomous University of Mexico before changing careers. Later, he would continue on to become an alum of the Iowa Writers Workshop, then working for the BBC in London, and later, Radio France and as a cultural ambassador for the Mexican government. His works include some of the most important novels of twentieth-century Latin American literature, such as Noticias del Imperio and Palinuro de México.

Elizabeth Plaister is a translator of books from Spanish, including authors such as Manuel Vazquez Montalban and Fernando del Paso.

Álvaro Enrigue is a Mexican writer living in New York. His novel Sudden Death received the Herralde, the Poniatowska and the Barcelona prizes. You Dream of Empires was a top ten book of the year for The New York Times, the New York Public Library and The Guardian. He teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University.

Dr. Francisco González-Crussi, (b. Mexico City, 1936; naturalized American citizen in 1987), Professor Emeritus of Pathology of Northwestern University Medical School, wrote numerous articles and two books of his medical specialty. He debuted as an essayist in 1985 with his book Notes of an Anatomist and has since authored twenty-six books (equally divided in English and Spanish), chiefly in the essay genre. Among the awards he received are: First Prize for non-fiction of the Society for Midland Authors (1985); a Guggenheim Fellowship (2000-2001); the Merck Prize in Rome, Italy (2014); the VIth International " Pedro Henriquez-Ureña" Award by Mexico's Academy of the Language (2019).