Pablo Baler

Pablo Baler (Buenos Aires, 1967) is a novelist, critic and professor of Latin American literature at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of the novels Circa (Galerna, 1999, Premio Fondo Nacional de las Artes and Premio Cultura de la Nación in Argentina), Chabrancán (Ediciones del Camino, 2020), and El lejano desoriente (Bitácora de la Felicidad) (Rialta, 2022). He is also the author of Latin-American Neo-Baroque: Senses of Distortion (Corregidor, 2009; Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Baler edited the international anthology The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-First Century (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013). La burocracia mandarina was published in Spanish in 2013, with two subsequent Portuguese translations in 2016 and 2018 from Lumme Editor, São Paulo, Brazil.