Horacio Castellanos Moya is a Salvadoran novelist and short story writer.
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Castellanos Moya was born in 1957 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. His family moved to El Salvador while he was only a few years old. He lived in San Salvador until 1979, and since has resided in Toronto, San José, Mexico City and Frankfurt. He has also worked as a journalist.
Castellanos Moya currently lives in Pittsburgh and is a part of the City of Asylum project. He is a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh and is on the jury for the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Castellanos Moya's works have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Italian, Portuguese and German. His novel El asco, was written in tribute to Thomas Bernhard and in the style of the Austrian novelist.
His first novel, La diáspora, which concerns the struggles of the exiles from the Salvadoran Civil War, won the Premio Nacional de la Novela, awarded by the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas", in 1988.