Against the Inquisition

About Marcos Aguinis

Marcos Aguinis is a prize-winning internationally bestselling author. Born the son of European Jewish immigrants in Argentina in 1935 Aguinis learned at age seven that his grandfather and the rest of his family in Europe had been killed by the Nazis. Describing this as the defining moment of his life Aguinis says it is what drove him to write in an effort to repair the broken mechanism of humanity. He published his first book in 1963 and since then has published thirteen novels fourteen essay collections four short-story collections and two biographies covering historical political and artistic themes. Aguinis was the first author outside of Spain to win the prestigious Planeta Prize for his book The Inverted Cross and his novel Against the Inquisition was praised by Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa as a stirring song of freedom. When democracy was reinstated in Argentina in 1983 Aguinis became secretary of culture for his brave fight against dictatorship and the defense of human rights and sponsored the renowned cultural renaissance. For more information visit www.aguinis.net. About the Translator Carolina De Robertis is a writer professor and literary translator of Uruguayan origins. She is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango and Perla as well as the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain and is also the editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. Her own books have been translated into seventeen languages. Her award-winning translations from the Spanish include Alejandro Zambras Bonsai Roberto Ampueros The Neruda Case and writings by Raquel Lubartowski Rodrigo Hasbún and Pedro Almodóvar among others. She is the recipient of Italys Rhegium Julii Prize a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts a Stonewall Book Award and numerous other honors. In 2017 the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis to its 100 List of writers and thinkers who are shaping the future of culture. She teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University.