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Guillermo Martnez (writer)

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Guillermo Martnez (born 29 July 1962) is an Argentine novelist and short story writer. Martnez was born in Baha Blanca, Argentina. He gained a PhD 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 Crmenes 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 lm in 2008, directed by Alex de la Iglesia, and starring John Hurt, Elijah Wood, Leonor Watling and Julie Cox. Most of his articles and essays (in Spanish) can be found in his personal site [1] (http://www.guillermo-martinez.net).

Books
Vast Hell (Inerno grande, 1989) short stories Regarding Roderer (Acerca de Roderer, 1993) novel The Woman of the Master (La mujer del maestro, 1998) novel Borges and Mathematics (Borges y las matemticas, 2003) essays The Oxford Murders (Crmenes imperceptibles, 2003) novel The Immortality Formula (La frmula de la inmortalidad, 2005) essays The Book of Murder (La Muerte Lenta de Luciana B, 2007) novel Gdel (para todos), 2009 essay

References
Williams. Michael, Fiction by numbers: Interview with Guillermo Martinez (http://www.cherwell.org/ction_by_numbers_interview_with_guillermo_martinez), Cherwell, 27 January 2006.

External links
Guillermo Martnez website (http://guillermomartinezweb.blogspot.com/) (Spanish) Fantastic Fiction entry (http://www.fantasticction.co.uk/m/guillermo-martinez/) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Guillermo_Martnez_(writer)&oldid=595159544" Categories: 1962 births People from Baha Blanca Living people Argentine novelists Argentine writers Argentine mathematicians University of Buenos Aires alumni Academics of the University of Oxford Argentine writer stubs Argentine people stubs South American scientist stubs Mathematician stubs This page was last modied on 12 February 2014 at 16:35. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may
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