Marcial Souto

Marcial Souto (A Coruña, 1947) has lived in Montevideo since he was 14, and that is where he published his first Mario Levrero books. He moved to Buenos Aires at the age of 25. There he published his short story collections Para bajar a un pozo de estrellas and Trampas para pesadillas and directed the magazines El péndulo and Minotauro. He has translated books by Ray Bradbury and other great authors like J. G. Ballard, George Orwell, Edward Gorey, Jack London, Charles Bukowski, Theodore Sturgeon, Samuel R. Delany, Cordwainer Smith, Sylvia Plath, H. G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce and William Burroughs. He recently edited the anthology of Ray Bradbury stories, Otras crónicas marcianas, for Libros del Zorro Rojo, which compiles the stories on Mars expeditions that didn’t make the cut in the author's celebrated novel.