Yuri Herrera

Yuri Herrera was born in 1970 in Actopan, Mexico. His first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. Herrera earned his PhD at Berkeley and is currently teaching at the University of Tulane in New Orleans.

A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera

Autumn 2020
Yuri Herrera

New York. And Other Stories. 2020. 120 pages. I’D READ TWO NOVELS written by Yuri Herrera before A Silent Fury. They were both masterpieces of brevity. The restraint and insi...
The Objects

March 2017
Yuri Herrera

Photo: www.flickr.com/people/fineplan When you are a pestilent being the world stops being pestilent. Or does it? Each night Rafa stares at the vestibule in hatred until those in li...
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

January 2016
Yuri Herrera

London / New York. And Other Stories. 2015. 114 pages. Makina is in charge of a small Mexican town’s telephone. A reliable messenger, she knows how to keep a secret and when to keep her mouth shut. Sh...