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Martín Solares

Biography

Martín Solares

Martín Solares was born in Tampico, Mexico, in 1970. His first novel, THE BLACK MINUTES, has been translated into six languages and was a finalist for France’s most prestigious award for crime fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière de Paris, and for the distinguished Spanish-language award, the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. He lives in Mexico City.

Martín Solares

Books by Martín Solares

How to Draw a Novel
by Martín Solares - Essays, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction

In this finely wrought collection of essays, Martín Solares examines the novel in all its forms, exploring the conventions of structure, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out the world of the novel in unique and complex ways. With poetic, graceful prose that reflects the power of fascination with literary fiction, Solares uses line drawings to realize the ebb and flow of the novel. A novelist, occasional scholar and former acquiring editor in Mexican publishing, Solares breaks out of the Anglo-American-dominated canon of many craft books, ranging across Latin and South America as well. He considers how writers invent (or discover) their characters, the importance of place (or not) in the novel, and the myriad forms the novel may take.