Jorge Majfud

Jorge Majfud is an Uruguayan American writer. Before settling in the USA, he lived and worked in South and Central America, Africa, and Europe. He is the author of many essays books such as A Theory of Semantic Fields, On the Post-Enlightenment Era, and novels like The Queen of America (2001), The City of the Moon (2009), Crisis (2012), and Tequila (2018). A former architect and teacher of mathematics, he currently teaches Latin American Literature and International Studies at Jacksonville University in Florida. His novel El mismo fuego was awarded The Independent International Literary Orizzonte Atlantico Award in Italy.