32 Facts About Jorge Volpi

Jorge Volpi is a Mexican novelist and essayist, best known for his novels such as In Search of Klingsor.

Jorge Volpi's work has been translated into twenty five languages and recognized with awards such as Biblioteca Breva Award and the Debate-Casa de America as well as a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation.

Jorge Volpi stated much of his interest in science was sparked by watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos on television.

Jorge Volpi decided later in life to abandon these for literature, but these interests remain and appear in his writing.

Jorge Volpi attended high school at the Centro Universitario Mexico in Mexico City, later doing his undergraduate work in law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and receiving his masters from the same institution in Mexican literature.

Jorge Volpi was working with politicians, police and judiciary at a turbulent time, with among other things, the Chiapas uprising.

In 1996, Jorge Volpi moved to Spain to do his doctorate at the University of Salamanca.

Jorge Volpi spent three years there, earning his degree in Hispanic philology with his thesis about poet Jorge Cuesta.

Jorge Volpi met with and shared experiences there with fellow writer Ignacio Padilla, crediting him as an indirect influence on the work.

Jorge Volpi learned German as part of research into the book at this time.

Jorge Volpi was offered the opportunity to be a cultural attache for the Mexican embassy in Italy, but rejected the offer.

Jorge Volpi served as a jury member for the Guadalajara International Book Fair, which awarded this institution's prize to Bryce Enchenique, later accused of plagiarism.

Jorge Volpi reformed the station and how it is perceived by the public.

Jorge Volpi has stated that he does not want fame, that it is better suited for singers, actors and television personalities.

Jorge Volpi is best known for his novels and essays, with nine novels published.

Jorge Volpi decided to become a writer after reading Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra because it convinced him that writing can recreate history.

Later, Jorge Volpi became friends with Fuentes after the older writer praised En busca de Klingsor.

Jorge Volpi's works have been translated into twenty five languages, with his work influential in both Spanish and English as his style has differed from what has been produced in either of these languages.

Later in life, Jorge Volpi referred to it as an experiment.

Jorge Volpi contributes to the El Pais newspaper in Spain.

Jorge Volpi has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and has been a member of the National System of Creators in Mexico.

Jorge Volpi is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and a Knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain.

Jorge Volpi's novels have a writing style which is distinct from other Latin American literature, especially from magical realism.

Jorge Volpi is the only major writer of this kind of novel in Spanish and has been "accused" of not being Latin American enough for his distinctive style and subject matter.

Jorge Volpi felt literature light trivialized the link between literature and knowledge.

The story here is of a German film director making his last film in Mexico, with Jorge Volpi focuses on the ten Mexican actors and their roles in the film.

Jorge Volpi's best known work, En busca de Klingsor, is the first of a trilogy that not only traces the development of scientific knowledge of the latter 20th century, but aligns it to the political and social thought of the same era.

For Jorge Volpi, literature is to satisfy his curiosity and search for knowledge, including knowledge about himself, preferring to use first-person narrators.

For Jorge Volpi, the novel is a vehicle for knowledge about identity in action, placing readers in a position to observe the how human behavior works.

Jorge Volpi generally writes about identity as a mixture of character, temperament and will.

Jorge Volpi's stories are often experiments to place certain temperaments together to analyze their interactions.

However, knowledge in Jorge Volpi's novels is a search rather than explaining what is already known and it is never complete, generally related to the concept of identity and human behavior.