Rodrigo Fresán (born 1963 in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina) is a fiction writer and journalist.[1] Since 1999, Fresán has lived and worked in
Barcelona, Spain. His books have been translated into many languages.
Mantra, a portrait of
Mexico City ca. 2000, reveals the deep influence of science fiction novels (
Philip K. Dick in particular), movies (
Stanley Kubrick) and TV shows (
The Twilight Zone). According to
Jonathan Lethem, "he's a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room."
He was a close friend of the late Chilean writer
Roberto Bolaño.