Fabián Martínez Siccardi

ARGENTINA, 1964

CLARÍN NOVEL PRIZE 2013

Fabián Martínez Siccardi was born in Argentine Patagonia in 1964 and has wandered and migrated through different cities in Argentina, the United States and Spain. The only place he constantly returned to was his grandparents’ farm in the south, on the shore of Lake Cardiel, where he spent his childhood summers listening to stories about Patagonia.  

He eventually started to write his own stories, some of which were awarded: Memoria fotográfica ("Photographic memory", second prize Hucha de Oro, 2003), El santo invisible ("The Invisible Saints", second prize Ciudad de Zaragoza, 2005), Laika (prize Alberto Lista, 2007), and If then a man (finalist in the award Glimmer Train Press, 2012, co-authored with Arthur Rose South Africa). In 2012 has published the novel for young readers Patagonia iluminada (Illuminated Patagonia), and in 2013 published Bestias afuera (Beasts outside), the 2013 Clarín Novel Prize.


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By Fabián Martínez Siccardi

  • Margot at Lake Cardiel

    NOVEL, 2023

    «Margot received him on a bed of blue and yellow flowers with an enormous smile, dressed only in a white tutu and ballet slippers.» This is a Patagonian story. A novel set in an...

  • Letters from Pupé

    NOVEL, 2023

    In 1923, the writer Franz Kafka came across a girl in a park in Berlin crying because she'd lost her doll Pupé. In an attempt to console her, Kafka told her that Pupé had gone...

  • The Tallest Men

    NOVEL, 2021

    «In a word? I'd describe it as a force. A malign force? It's not malign, Father, although it is capable of evil. An evil that depends upon the person wielding it, like the razor that shaves...

  • Lost in the Night

    NOVEL, 2017

    Luciano Capra is a translator from Buenos Aires with a tragic past in the United States. Rose is the mother of a young Californian woman who disappeared in Buenos Aires several weeks ago. A chance...

  • Beasts outside

    NOVEL, 2013

    CLARÍN NOVEL PRIZE 2013 A young agricultural scientist goes to a farm in Patagonia to carry out some pest control. He’s accompanied by his dog Atila, who he is closer to...

  • Illuminated Patagonia

    NOVELA, 2012

    A month ago, on one of his mail transport flights, Amanda's father left the aerodrome in Bahia Blanca on his way to Rio Gallegos. At some point during the journey, the Aeroposta Argentina plane...

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