Federico Andahazi was born in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, at Congreso, a very central neighborhood of the city. He is the son of Bela Andahazi, an aristocratic
Hungarian poet and psychoanalyst, and Juana Merlín, of
Russian-Jewish ancestry. He obtained a bachelor's degree in
Psychology (
University of Buenos Aires); In the end, she agreed to give Andahazi the $15,000 award that went with the prize but not the prize itself.
The Anatomist was published by
Editorial Planeta in 1997, translated into over thirty languages, and has sold millions of copies worldwide.
Further works and activity His second novel,
Las piadosas (The Merciful Women), In 1998 the publishing house Temas published
El árbol de las tentaciones, a small volume containing short stories that obtained awards. The three short stories begin in the same way and are located in similar settings of nineteenth-century Argentina. In 2000 he published
El príncipe and in 2002
El secreto de los flamencos.
Errante en la sombra was published in 2004; Andahazi wrote more than forty
tangos for this story, in which singer
Carlos Gardel takes part. The novel
La ciudad de los herejes was published in 2005. Also during the summer of 2005, Andahazi and his readers collectively wrote a newspaper series called
Mapas del fin del mundo (Maps from the End of the World) published by the newspaper
Clarín. The author wrote the beginning of a text, asking the readers to continue the story, create characters, propose plots, solve riddles, to be sent by e-mail. Therefore, in an unprecedented work, reading and answering thousands of e-mails per week, Andahazi built the story with the various inputs and points of view. Every Saturday a new chapter was added to the novel, increasing the participation and the expectation of readers turned co-authors. In 2006, Federico Andahazi was awarded the
Planeta Prize for his novel
El conquistador ("The Conqueror"). There he narrates the story of Quetza, the brilliant son of
Tenochtitlan, who discovers the European continent. In 2008, Andahazi published his first non-fiction book,
Pecar como Dios manda, a sexual history of Argentines. He took part in numerous anthologies, among others:
Las palabras pueden: Los escritores y la infancia (2007), dedicated to
UNICEF and
World Food Programme, with authors like
José Saramago,
Carlos Fuentes,
Ernesto Sábato,
Juan Gelman,
Mario Benedetti and
Mario Vargas Llosa;
Líneas aéreas (1999, published by Lengua de trapo, Spain) with writers such as
Jorge Volpi,
Santiago Gamboa and
Edmundo Paz Soldán;
A Whistler in the Nightworld, collection of short fiction from Latin America (2002, published by
Plume, USA) with
Laura Restrepo and
Ángeles Mastretta among others;
La Selección Argentina (2000, published by
Tusquets);
El libro de los nuevos pecados capitales (2001,
Norma Publishing Group). He also took part in the book
Homage to Diego Maradona (2001, SAF) together with
Roberto Fontanarrosa and
Pacho O'Donnell. His books have been translated to many languages. In the United States, he has been published by
Doubleday, in England by
Transworld, in France by
Laffont, in Italy by
Frassinelli, in China by
China Times, in Japan by
Kadokawa, in Germany by Wolfgang Krüger. He has delivered lectures in the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the
University of Moscow, Russia, and the
University of Santos Ossa of
Antofagasta, Chile. He has also given talks in Stockholm, London, Paris, Istanbul and other cities of Europe,
Latin America, and The United States. He has participated in literary congresses in France, Finland, and several cities in Spain among others. He has been invited to
book fairs in
Guadalajara,
Moscow,
Pula,
Istanbul,
Madrid,
Barcelona, Buenos Aires and other cities of Argentina. He has written articles published by
Clarín,
La Nación,
Perfil,
Noticias,
Veintitrés,
Lamujerdemivida,
Brando,
V de Vian, and others in Argentina, USA, Portugal, and
Colombia. == Personal life ==