fan. He has consistently written chronicles, a genre that he defines as the platypus of prose, due to the large number of varying influences that chronicles can require. He began writing theater when he was 50 years old. As a rock music fan, Villoro collaborated with Mexican band Café Tacuba on the songs "Sashimi (Corte fino)" and "Laberinto" for the film Vivir mata, directed by Nicolás Echevarría. Villoro is also a professor at the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Iberoamerican Journalism and was a member of the dean's council for the Gabriel García Márquez Prize for Journalism, which meets annually in Medellín. Works Novels El disparo de argón (1991) Materia dispuesta (1997) El testigo (2004) Llamadas de Ámsterdam (2007) Arrecife (2012) La utilidad del deseo (2017) Short stories La noche navegable (1980) La alcoba dormida (1992) Albercas (1985) La casa pierde (1999) Los culpables (2007) "Orden suspendido," in Manuel Felguérez Obra Reciente 2002-2005 (2005) "Palmeras de la brisa rápida" (2009) Forward: Kioto (2010) Espejo Retrovisor (2013) Children's Books Las golosinas secretas (1985) El profesor Zíper y la fabulosa guitarra eléctrica (1992) Autopista sanguijuela (1998) El té de tornillo del profesor Zíper (2000) Cazadores de croquetas (2007) El libro salvaje (2008) El taxi de los peluches (2008) La cuchara del señor Zíper (2015) Essays, Chronicles, and Non-Fiction Tiempo transcurrido (Crónicas imaginarias) (1986) Palmeras de la brisa rápida: Un viaje a Yucatán (chronicle, 1989) Los once de la tribu (football chronicles, 1995) Efectos personales (essay, 2000) Safari accidental (chronicle, 2005) Dios es redondo (essays and chronicles on football, 2006) Funerales preventivos: Fábulas y retratos (political essays, with drawings by Rogelio Naranjo, 2006) De eso se trata (literary essays, 2008) Manuel Felguérez el límite de una secuencia (1997) La máquina desnuda (essay, 2009) 8.8: Miedo en el espejo (chronicle,2010) ¿Hay vida en la Tierra? (articles, 2012) El Ojo en la Nuca (Stavans, ilan / Villoro, Juan, 2014) El vértigo horizontal (Barcelona: Anagrama, 2019. English translation: Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico, Knopf, 2021) References External links Juan Villoro's page at n+1 Juan Villoro recorded for the literary archive in the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress on September 14, 2015. Villoro,Juan Villoro,Juan Villoro,Juan Living people 1956 births Cultural attachés