Carlos Velázquez

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Carlos Velázquez


Born
in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
January 01, 1978

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Carlos Velázquez (Coahuila, 1978) es autor de los libros de cuentos Cuco Sánchez blues (2004) y La Biblia Vaquera (nombrado entre los libros del año en 2009 por el periódico Reforma). Según Sergio González Rodríguez «es el libro que el norte inventó para explicarse a sí mismo» y está llamado «a cambiar la recepción y la percepción de la literatura mexicana y sus aires de altísima cultura hecha de mausoleos» (suplemento El Ángel), y que en palabras de Rafael Lemus, «es el producto más divertido e iconoclasta de la narrativa norteña» (Letras Libres). Velázquez recibió el Premio Nacional de Cuento Magdalena Mondragón y ha sido antologado en el Anuario de poesía mexicana 2007 del Fondo de Cultura Económica.

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La marrana negra de la lite...

3.77 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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La Biblia Vaquera

3.48 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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El karma de vivir al norte

4.03 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Despachador de pollo frito

3.74 avg rating — 159 ratings4 editions
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La efeba salvaje

3.66 avg rating — 134 ratings4 editions
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El pericazo sarniento

4.03 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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Mantén la música maldita

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El menonita zen

3.74 avg rating — 68 ratings3 editions
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Aprender a amar el plástico

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Lo que el 20 se llevó

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“Yo salía a la calle sin una idea preconcebida del mundo. Los otros niños sabían que no debían hacer. A mi nadie me aleccionaba. Así que me estrellé contra mi destino. No recibí advertencias. Aprendí lo que era la vida hasta que me interné en ella. No era el único chico del barrio producto de un hogar roto.”
Carlos Velázquez, El karma de vivir al norte



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