Discipline: Literature – fiction

Guillermo Martinez

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000, 2001
Guillermo Martinez is an Argentine novelist and short story writer. Martínez was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematical logic at the University of Buenos Aires. After his degree in Argentina, he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford. His most successful novel has been Crímenes Imperceptibles (Imperceptible Crimes) known as The Oxford Murders, written in 2003. In the same year, he was awarded the Planeta Prize for this novel, which has been translated into a number of languages. The book has appeared as a film in 2008, directed by Alex de la Iglesia, and starring John Hurt, Elijah Wood, Leonor Watling, and Julie Cox.

Studios

Phi Beta

Guillermo Martinez worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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