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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Courtney Floyd presents "Uroboros" by Emiliano González, read in Spanish and English by Héctor González. The full text of the story can be found here.



Emiliano González es un escritor de ficción, poeta y ensayista, así como un estudioso de los movimientos literarios simbolista y de vanguardia de Europa y de las Américas. En 1978 obtuvo el premio Xavier Villaurrutia por su libro Los sueños de la bella durmiente. En palabras de Augusto Monterroso, es “el primero y único autor mexicano que se ha arrojado de verdad y con entero valor al fondo de la literatura mágica.”

Emiliano González is a writer of fiction, poet, and essayist, as well as a student of the symbolist and avant-garde literary movements of Europe and the Americas. In 1978, he was granted the Xavier Villaurrutia Award for his book Los sueños de la bella durmiente. In the words of Augusto Monterroso, he “is the first and only Mexican author who has courageously and wholeheartedly dived into the depths of magic literature.”
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