Edmundo Murray

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Edmundo Murray (b.1955), writer, was born in Buenos Aires in a family with Argentine, Colombian, Irish and Swiss origins. He studied in Argentina, the United States and Switzerland and holds an M.A. in literature from the University of Geneva. Doctoral candidate at the University of Zurich (Romanisches Seminar). Editor at WTO Publications, the in-house publisher of the World Trade Organization. Author of "Devenir irlandés: Narrativas íntimas de la emigración irlandesa a la Argentina 1844-1912" (Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2004), which has been published in English as "Becoming Irlandés: Private Narratives of the Irish Emigration to Argentina 1844-1912" (Buenos Aires: L.O.L.A. Literature of Latin America, 2006). Advisory editor of "Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History" (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming 2007), and a lecturer and frequent contributor of articles in Irish and Latin American studies. Member of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies, Sociedad Suiza de Estudios Hispánicos and the Société Suisse des Américanistes. Editor of the open-access publication "Irish Migration Studies in Latin America", the only journal focusing on relations between Ireland and Latin America. Poet and a short-story writer, published "Poemas Nómades" (1999) and "Taxonomía Fantástica de los Árboles de Buenos Aires" (2000). Married to Estelle Varanguien de Villepin, father of five, lives in Burtigny, Switzerland.