His fourth novel, the award-winning Traveller of the Century, first to be published in English, was selected among the best books of the year by The Guardian, The Independent and Financial Times. He was also selected by Granta magazine in Spanish and English as one of the 22 Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. Through a vote called by the Hay Festival, Neuman was selected among the most outstanding young Latin American authors, being included on the first Bogotá39 list. He holds both Argentine and Spanish citizenships. He has a degree in Spanish Philology from the University of Granada, where he also taught Latin American literature. The stories of his European ancestors and family migrations, his childhood recollections and the kidnapping of his paternal aunt during the military dictatorship, can be read on his novel Una vez Argentina. He spent his childhood in Buenos Aires, before going into exile with his family to Granada, Spain. The son of Argentine émigré musicians, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a mother of French and Spanish descent and a father of Eastern European-Jewish descent. Andrés Neuman (born January 28, 1977) is a Spanish- Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger.
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