Rodrigo Fresán was born in Buenos Aires in 1963 and has lived in Barcelona since 1999. He is the author of thirteen books of fiction, six of which are available in English: Kensington Gardens (2005), The Bottom of the Sky (2018), The Invented Part (2017; Best Translated Book Award 2018), The Dreamed Part (2019), The Remembered Part (2022), and Melvill (2024). Fresán was awarded the Prix Roger Caillois in France in 2017 for his entire body of work.